Where are the original royal family for Scotland?

Question

Scotland is now under the U.K. but it used to have a royal family in power before it became part of the U.K.. Where are they now?

Answer 1

Scotland had several dynasties.

The last Royal Family that originated from Scotland were the Stuarts. Queen Anne (+1714) was the last Stuart Queen. The Act of Settlement of 1701 ruled that the Hanovarians inherited Queen Anne.

However, the Stuarts lived on and their supporters were the Jacobites who fought in 1715 and 1745/46 for their rightful King (James III & VII). The last Stuart (King) died 200 years ago, Cardinal Henry Duke of York, for Jacobites King Henri IX & I.

The present holder of the Stuart rights to the throne of Scotland (and other countries) is Duke Franz of Bavaria, for Jacobites he is King Francis II.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

They are the current Monacrhy for the UK. James I was already king of Scotland but then he also got the English throne so the two were combined. It has been this way ever since.

Answer 4

The Queen is directly descended from the Scottish Royal Family.  And her lineage can be followed back to the first king of all Scotland.  If the union of the crowns hadn't taken place (lets say Elizabeth I had children) then Elizabeth II would be Queen of Scotland and, assuming Elizbeth I's lineage continued, not the queen of England.  

Elizabeth II can also trace her family tree back to the first king of all England, king Egbert, and also the last prince of wales (when it was independent), Llywelyn ap Gruffydd.

So despite the claims that she is an English monarch more than anything are unfounded.  She is closer related to the last King of independent Scotland, then the last monarch of Independent England, and then the last prince of independent Wales.

NB The Jacobites were not legally permitted to become monarchs of either England or Scotland, despite what the above answer says.  Therefore they cannot be considered rightful heirs.  Anyway, that branch of the family tree, which claimed the British throne, is long dead.