Royal who united our kingdom

From: Evening News - Scotland | Date: March 24, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

' O WONDER! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in it.' - Miranda, The Tempest.

Well, perhaps, in Shakespeare's enchanted isle in 1611. But was the real isle of what James VI and I wanted to call Great Britain such a brave new world? Was British mankind beauteous?

Sadly no. Miranda's "goodly creatures" translate into creatures who, with the exception of the king himself, and perhaps his Irish subjects, were all too timorous about the union of England and Scotland.

It did not look quite like that in 1603. Superficially, ...

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