Does Scottland Have a Royal Family???

Question

Does Scottland Have a Royal Family???

Answer 1

The Scottish Royal Family is the British Royal Family. (In fact legally, the Scottish and English Royal Families no longer exist, since they merged and formed the British Royal Family).  This has been legally true since 1707, and de facto true since 1603.

Despite another answerer claiming that Elizabeth II is Elizabeth I in Scotland, this is not true.  Although there has never been an Elizbeth I in Scotland, the name and numbering of monarch's is a royal perogative, and therefore completely up to the monarch.  Also, Buckingham Palace released a memo stating that the monarchs of the future will be numbered by the highest number from both Scotland and England (since 1066).  This means that, since the Act of Union 1707, the names and numberings of all monarchs has been correct, including Elizabeth II's.

Answer 2

yeep scotland is part of united kindom,ruled by queen ELL2.

Answer 3

The head of state for Scottland is Elizabeth II, Queen of England.

Answer 4

william wallace, FREEDOMMMMMMM!!!!!

not technically but they should. the english took over and messed it up for them by OWNING those scots!

jj, i kid i kid

Answer 5

The Royal Family of Scotland is the Royal Family of the United Kingdom. Interestingly, the present Queen is actually Queen Elizabeth l of Scotland as the original Elizabeth l was Queen of England only as the two Crowns had not united at that time.

Answer 6

Scotland is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and as such we have Queen Elizabeth the second as our Queen. Most of the world think of her as the queen of England and forget about Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.Her husband is the Duke of Edinburgh( which is the capital city of Scotland) her son Prince Charles as well as being the Prince of Wales is also the Duke of Rothesay(which is an old Scottish title) Our Royal Family always spend their summers in Scotland at Balmoral Castle in the Highlands.

Answer 7

Yes, its Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. She is the Queen regnant of sixteen independent states and their overseas territories and dependencies.

The monarch of Scotland was the head of state of the Kingdom of Scotland. According to tradition, the first King of Scots was Kenneth MacAlpin (Cináed mac Ailpín), who founded the state in 843.

Cináed mac Ailpín (after 800 – 13 February 858) (Anglicised Kenneth MacAlpin) was king of the Picts and, according to national myth, first king of Scots. Cináed's undisputed legacy was to produce a dynasty of rulers who claimed descent from him. Even though he cannot be regarded as the father of Scotland, he was the founder of the dynasty which ruled that country for much of the medieval period.

The title of King of Scots fell out of use in 1707 when the Kingdom of Scotland merged with the Kingdom of England to form the Kingdom of Great Britain. Thus Queen Anne became the last monarch of Scotland (and concurrently, the last monarch of England) and the first monarch of Great Britain. The two kingdoms had shared a monarch since 1603, and Charles II was the last Scottish monarch to actually be crowned in Scotland, at Scone in 1651.

The House of Stewart was dissolved when Queen Anne died childless in 1714, many of her remaining relatives including her half brother James were sent in exile for being Catholic. The English throne was passed onto her distant German cousin and this is why the current British monarchy is of German descent.

The House of Stewart had since branched out and a few remaining living descendants are found mostly around Europe and Australia. Diana, Princess of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall both have “Stewart ancestry.” They were direct descendants of Charles II of England through his illegitimate son Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond.