From: efor6920@bigpond.net.au   
      
   "Col"  wrote in message   
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   > "Charles Daniels"  wrote in message   
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   >> Col  wrote:   
   >>> "Charles Daniels"  wrote in message   
   >>>> Love Scotland!   
   >>   
   >>> One of the best parts of England.   
   >>   
   >> Umm...yeah...well, maybe if you're using very very old terminology.   
   >   
   > Well no, Scotland was *never* part of England.   
   > It was alway Scotland, though not always  part   
   > of the political entity we know as 'Great Britain'.   
   > --   
   > Col   
   >   
   > That's your excuse for everything isn't it, being dead!   
      
      
   Indeed, given the way history played out and given how the system of fealty   
   and liege status actually worked,  if one takes emotion out of the equation   
   (which i admit many find difficult on national identity issues) one could   
   make reasonable case for suggesting that, with the accession of the Stuart   
   dynasty, England became part of Scotland.  Retaining the capital as London   
   doesnt really discount this interpretation either, afterall Cnut remained   
   king of Denmark and England was considered to be part of the Danish kingdom   
   during his reign (as the few extant contemporary accounts make clear)   
   despite choosing to relocate his seat of government to London. London was   
   simply one of the best placed sites for a military capital in western   
   Europe.   
      
      
   cheers   
   Fozzi   
      
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