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From: Leo van de Pas <>
Subject: Re: Kings of Scots and Kings of Scotland
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 16:49:04 +0800


>At 01:24 PM 11/1/97 -1000, you wrote:
>>Can anyone, hopefully a really knowledgable Scot, tell us when it is
>>proper to use the title "King of Scots" and when one should use the
>>title "King of Scotland" --- and with which Kings each title is
>>appropriate? Perhaps some Kings are entitled to both titles?
>
>>...........I may not be a Scot, but can I give my understanding?
>The monarch is king of the people, not the land, therefor he/she
>is King/Queen of Scots. When the Stuarts became Kings of England the
>title became too awkward and they called themselves Kings of England
>and Scotland (and France). This also applies to the King of Belgium
>ooops King of The Belgians and slightly different with Albania.
>King Leka established his right to call himself king (even though he
>always lived in exile) because he is king of the people, not the land.
>Leo van de Pas
>
>>I have a copy of the appropriate section of Sir James Balfour Paul's
>>*The Scots Peerage* and the differences are not clearly called out or
>>delineated there.
>>
>>Thank you.
>>--
>>
>>D. Spencer Hines --- "There is an upstart Crow, beautified with our
>>feathers, that with his *Tygers heart wrapt in a Players hide* supposes
>>he is as well able to bumbast out a blanke verse as the best of you;
>>and, being an absolute *Johannes Factotum*, is in his owne conceit the
>>onely Shake-scene in a countrie." --- Robert Greene [1558?-1592] "Greens
>>groatsworth of witte, bought with a million of Repentance" [1592]
>>
>>
>
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