John Brown (2011)
“Within eight hours of her death, 36-year-old James Stewart was proclaimed King of England in London. He had reigned in Scotland as King James VI ever since his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots, had been forced to abdicate on 24 July 1567. On 5 April 1603 James disappeared down the road to Greenwich, with his ‘gowff clubbis’, to be at the hub of his new United Kingdom. Thereafter royal visits to Scotland became rare for some 220 years.
James VI and I returned to Scotland once, in 1617, in an attempt... to impose Anglican ritual upon the recalcitrant Scottish Kirk; he stayed for seven months. James’s second son Charles I, who was born on 19 November 1600 at Dunfermline, Fife, visited Edinburgh as monarch and on 18 June 1633 was crowned with Scotland’s own regalia. During June 1650 Charles II landed in Scotland and on 1 January 1651 was crowned King of Scots at Scone; he never returned to Scotland after his Restoration in 1660. In 1679 James, Duke of York, later King James II, stayed at Holyrood Palace, to the disgust of strict Presbyterians who loathed his religion and his predilection for drama and court entertainments.MoreLess
James VI and I returned to Scotland once, in 1617, in an attempt... to impose Anglican ritual upon the recalcitrant Scottish Kirk; he stayed for seven months. James’s second son Charles I, who was born on 19 November 1600 at Dunfermline, Fife, visited Edinburgh as monarch and on 18 June 1633 was crowned with Scotland’s own regalia. During June 1650 Charles II landed in Scotland and on 1 January 1651 was crowned King of Scots at Scone; he never returned to Scotland after his Restoration in 1660. In 1679 James, Duke of York, later King James II, stayed at Holyrood Palace, to the disgust of strict Presbyterians who loathed his religion and his predilection for drama and court entertainments.MoreLess
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