The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #101144   Message #2037915
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
28-Apr-07 - 09:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: Justice For England, English protest songs
Subject: RE: Justice For England, English protest songs
Ah yes, well I suppose I ought to have written 'the (imposed) British Crown'. Apologies,
This was not, at the time of the flight of Charles Edward Stuart from Culloden, the view of Flora MacDonald who thought he was the legitimate heir (though I'm sure she swiftly changed her mind about he 'who ran like a rabbit through the glen leaving better folk than him to be butchered'). There are those in Scotland who still drink a silent toast to him over the water by passing their wine glass over a glass of water.

All I know about Scottish history comes from June Tabor who, when a history student, recommended the John Prebble trilogy. If I have anything else wrong, blame her.

Do Westminster and the Crown belong to England? Well, that is where they are situated. As is the Stone of Scone I think once more unless some thieving Scots have nicked it yet again. I don't keep up cos it's not actually the important issue, is it?