You've got it the wrong way round - the last King of Scotland actually also became the King of England, the countries were united by a political process some ye

You've got it the wrong way round - the last King of Scotland actually also became the King of England, the countries were united by a political process some years later - largely to pay off debts following one of the most ill conceived colonisation attempts in history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme