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I did try searching for the answer to this one but could find nothing, here or elsewhere.

My impression is that though the 1707 Act of Union between England and Scotland, and the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain, had been proposed before, it would not necessarily have gone though when it did without the collapse of the Darien Scheme.

However, one implication is that in 1715, George of Hanover became King George I of Great Britain, without any opportunity for the Scottish parliament to opt for a different dynastic solution. If the Scottish Parliament was still in existence, and Scotland legally did not have to follow the English lead, how realistic would be the chances of them putting in a different dynasty (not necessarily the Stuarts). They did accept William of Orange in 1688, but he was married to a Stuart and partially Stuart himself.
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