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The sovereign in Scotland, as well as in England, is the Queen. The Queen has spoken.

The Society of King Charles the Martyr, you mean? He is one of the patrons of that organisation, which, I think, is best described as Anglo-Catholic. http://www.skcm.org/SKCM/History/history_skcm.html The Society was founded as a strictly Anglican organisation in 1894; it was opened to the...

Beaufort, Buccleuch, Richmond & Gordon, Grafton and St Albans. It was the Duke of Beaufort with whom this legend is concerned.

ysbel, several monarchs were considered to govern peoples rather than some (ill-defined) territories then. In the 19th Century this usage was revived in several countries; for example, Albert II is the King of the Belgians, not the King of Belgium.

http://www.heraldica.org/topics/britain/britstyles.htm#1553 Mary Tudor's regnal style was 'the most high, most puissant, and most excellent Princess Mary the First...'

Actually, she is. http://www.lawscot.org.uk/whatis/case8.html http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199899/ldhansrd/vo990427/text/90427-15.htm 'Lord Gordon of Strathblane: I thank the noble Lord for giving way. Despite his very interesting essay on Scottish jurisprudence and...

Full evening dress? :D

James II was not crowned in Edinburgh because he was a Roman Catholic, I presume; I don't know whether William & Mary and Anne even contemplated the Scottish coronation. After that the crowns of England and Scotland were united, and the second coronation ceremony became redundant.

Actually, Queen Mary I was proclaimed as 'Queen Mary the First' in 1553, a unique case. :) Elizabeth II is not legally Queen of Scots, although she was acclaimed as such, for example, by the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. She is Elizabeth II in Scotland, too -- the court...

Victoria at first was very pro-German in the time of the Franco-Prussian war, writing, for example: 'How dreadful the state of Paris is! Surely that Sodom and Gomorrah as Papa called it deserves to be crushed.' The Queen changed her mind after the German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine.

That's correct, he taught Russian politics and history in the US. Kerensky is pretty much forgotten here. It can be argued whether the Russian Provisional Government of 1917 can be called democratic -- it did not wield the full authority, and the country was at war.

King George V by Kenneth Rose (1983), a well-researched and very detailed book.

The transformation into a constitutional monarchy IMHO was possible, but the 'window of opportunity' was very narrow, and the First Russian revolution of 1905-1907 and Stolypin's response to it (our PM was a capable administrator and a bold economic reformer, but no clairvoyant; he decided to...

Actually he was Charles X, not Charles XX. :)

That's just my personal opinion. I also think that by 1917 the opportunity of transition to a constitutional monarchy had already been missed -- the country had been radicalised by Stolypin's restrictions upon ftranchise and, first and foremost, by the horrible experience of the Great War.

norwegianne Thank you for the info, it seems I've mixed the two orders up. :-)

norwegianne Thank you for the info, it seems I've mixed the two orders up. :-)

I hope for the United Kingdom to stay united, as a magnificent and unique country with rich history. Will the people of Scotland be less inclined to separatism in the future, when the Prime Minister will, in all likelihood, be a Caledonian? :) I hope so. I don't think it is somehow a bad thing...

The Order of the Dannebrog I'd like to add a little and to ask a couple of questions. The Order of the Dannebrog was opened to women in 1958, AFAIK. I'm not sure whether there were some exceptions for women of royal origin prior to that date. Are there any foreign Grand Commanders of the...

The Order of the Dannebrog I'd like to add a little and to ask a couple of questions. The Order of the Dannebrog was opened to women in 1958, AFAIK. I'm not sure whether there were some exceptions for women of royal origin prior to that date. Are there any foreign Grand Commanders of the...

No, all that is very incorrect. :) Prince Charles is 'Prince Charles' only in Scotland. To be precise, he is 'HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay' there. Outside of Scotland he is 'HRH The Prince of Wales'. 'Princess Camilla' implies that Camilla is a daughter of the monarch. 'Duchess...

Maybe it is her genuine desire to be Princess Consort; but maybe it was a PR move to stave off criticism.

Why not? It will be Camilla's victory--victory over all the haters and teasers. The law entitles her to that position, and Camilla is to become the Queen Consort, the Princess Consort business having been quietly dropped in the next few years, unless Charles ascends the throne in the near future.

The first Duke of Cornwall was Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince. As a matter of fact, he became first the Duke of Cornwall (1337) and then the Prince of Wales (1343). Only the Sovereign's eldest son can hold the dukedom, according to the charter of 1421. If the eldest son of the Sovereign...

A British female rank equivalent to a knight. Here it means that the Countess of Wessex holds Grade II of the Order of St John.