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| | Kings and Queens of England. |
 | | This gradually changed to primogeniture, where the oldest male child of the monarch inherited (the matter of female children when there was no male heir was unclear, perhaps until Elizabeth I), but the former system lingered in the mind, leading to various points where the powerful felt they had the right of choice eg. |
 | | Rejection of James II, who was Catholic, and invitation of William of Orange to be joint monarch with his wife, Mary.This begins a period of a struggle by the Stuarts to regain the throne, including two serious invasions/rebellions, the Jacobite risings in 1715, just after the death of Queen Anne, and 1745. |
 | | 1602 Union of England and Scotland brought about by the succession of James VI of Scotland to the throne of England as James I. The Scots tend to feel the captital should have moved to Edinburgh. |
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