When did scotland last have their own king?

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When did scotland last have their own king?

Answer 1

William II was the last King of Scotland from 11 April 1689 until his death on 8 March 1702. He was also William III (Kingdom of England), William I (Kingdom of Ireland), and William III of Orange (Principality of Orange and the Netherlands) born in The Hague, 14 November 1650 and died in Kensington Palace, 8 March 1702.

William Henry of Orange, the son and only child of stadtholder William II, Prince of Orange and Mary, Princess Royal of England, was born in The Hague, The Netherlands. He married Mary II of England (who's father was James II of England and Scotland). She reigned as Queen of England and Ireland from 13 February 1689, and as Queen of Scots (as Mary II of Scotland) from 11 April 1689 until her death. Mary reigned jointly with her husband and first cousin, William III, who became the sole ruler of both countries upon her death in 1694.

Answer 2

It was on 8 March 1702, the day King William III died. He was the King of Scots, and the King of England too. It was like when the same man happens to be the managing director of two separate companies, but everyone knows that they are still separate companies, not the same company.

The last time there was a King of Scots who wasn't King of somewhere else at the same time was 23 March 1603. The day after that, King James VI of Scotland became also King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I.

Answer 3

This is a classic case of Wikipedia being wrong ..

the last true king of Scotland was James VII, also known as James II of England .. those were and are his official denominations .. he was the last King of Scotland, since the Union treaty enforced the decision on the Scots to number their royalty as England did.

Some Scots still refer to the present Queen Elizabeth as QE I, since the Virgin Queen was never queen of Scotland

Answer 4

mary stuart was the ultimate queen of scottland before the queen of england sent to kill her....good lucky

Answer 5

James VI, the son of Mary Queen of Scots, reigned as the Scottish king from 24 July 1567, a week after his birth, until his death in 1625.  James' minority ended in 1578, but he didn't really gain full control over Scotland until 1581.  On 24 March 1603, he succeeded Elizabeth Tudor to the English throne, but continued to govern Scotland from London.   All of which means he governed Scotland alone for a full 24 years.

Following James' succession to the English throne, he ruled as James I of England, Wales, and Ireland and James VI of Scotland for the last 22 years of his life. James, incidentally, was a major proponent of the "Divine Right of Kings," a principal that didn't help his son, Charles I, in the slightest!

P. S.   Old Man, please note that Scotland: A History, ed. by Jenny Wormald (Oxford UP, 2005) labels James I of England as James VI of Scotland.  I double checked another non-Internet source besides Wikipedia.

Answer 6

The offical answer is King James I of England (also known as King James VI of Scotland) who began his reign 1566. However, he ascended to the throne of England citing the fact that he was the heir apparent to the English throne due to the fact that Queen Elizabeth left no heir apparents to the throne.

The last true ruling monarch of Scotland (without silmultaneously ruling the English throne) was King James V of Scotland, who ruled between 1512-1542.

Idi Amin - the Ugandan Dictator - aslo refered to himself as "The Last King of Scotland".

Answer 7

King James VI (19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scots as James VI, and after the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603 King of England and King of Ireland as James I.

He ruled in Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567, when he was only one year old, succeeding his mother Mary, Queen of Scots. Regents governed during his minority, which ended officially in 1578, though he did not gain full control of his government until 1581.

On 24 March 1603, as James I, he succeeded the last Tudor monarch of England and Ireland, Elizabeth I, who died without issue. He then ruled England, Scotland and Ireland for 22 years, until his death at the age of 58.