Did anyone see the Time Team special on MacBeth? Not only was the play a pack of lies -- political propaganda for James I/VI, who was descended from Duncan -- but if MacBeth had beaten Duncan and kept his (rightful) place on the Scottish throne, the Union would probably never have happened, because Scotland would have been culturally incapable of (and disinclined for!) such a thing.

Steve

(Don't ask me for the ins & outs -- get a historian!)