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Sirs, I here present unto you James Stuart the fourth of Scotland, your undoubted King. Wherefore all you who are come this day to do your homage and service, are you willing to do the same?

Introduction and Continuation of the Stuarts

On the Twenty-fourth of March, Anno Domini 1603, King James IV of Scotland and King James I of England, was crowned King of England(including Wales), Scotland, and Ireland. His Majesty's reign of 8,039 days or 22 years and 3 days was long enough though his line would fall shorter than most. In the OTL, the Stuart Dynasty ended in 1714. But, what if the Queen Anne (sister of Mary II) had not married Prince George of Denmark? In this timeline John Lindsay (Twentieth Earl of Crawford), after the death of his wife Lady Jean Murray, goes to London as per request of William III. While in London he meets Queen Anne, and they fall in love. Queen Anne, successfully poisons her then husband Prince George of Denmark and remarries John Lindsay. On March Eighth, 1702 where in the OTL Queen Anne became last Queen of the Stuarts, John Lindsay is proclaimed king. His Majesty's first proclamation was one to appease his wife, he changed his name from John Lindsay to King John Stuart I. In 1708 his son, the then Prince James VIII of Scotland and Prince James III of England was born in Edinburgh castle when the couple was visiting His Majesty's family. In 1729, John Stuart I abdicated and King James III of England was crowned.

Reign of James VIII of Scotland

James III felt very connected to his Scottish heritage and in 1734, moved to Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland and was henceforth known as James VIII. In 1736 when he made his annual return to London (then a normal festival with parades and other festivities)he uncovered a journal of his mother's in which she, in great detail, described a document that would unite the Kingdoms of England and Scotland into Great Britain, after small revisions to account for the Capital moving to Edinburgh, the Acts of Union 1736 were proclaimed. Three years later (1739) James VIII married Luise Dorothea of Prussia (OTL 29 September 1680 – 23 December 1705) and in 1741 had a daughter, Princess Mary III and in 1744 a son, Prince James Johnathon Stuart IX.

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