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Thread #9593   Message #62888
Posted By: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca
13-Mar-99 - 06:15 PM
Thread Name: Uillean Pipes Little irritating facts
Subject: RE: Uillean Pipes Little irritating facts
Yes, but by the time of Bonnie Prince Charlie the Stuarts were hardly very Scottish. I don't dispute their distant ancestry of more than a century before Culloden. They weren't very Scottish by the time of Charles I, after the Restoration.

James I of England got to be king for the simple reason that Elizabeth was The Virgin Queen. Hence the son of Mary Queen of Scots got to be the English king too. I can't remember how the Tudors got hooked up with the Stuarts so as to have a common heir.