Treaty of Union took effect on 1 May 1707. Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland, last monarch of the Tudor dynasty, died without issue on 24 March 1603, and the throne fell at once (and uncontroversially) to her first cousin twice removed, James VI of Scotland, a member of House of Stuart and the only son of Mary, Queen of Scots. By the Union of the Crowns in 1603 he assumed the throne of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Ireland as King James I. This personal union lessened the constant English fears of Scottish cooperation with France in a
The Episode of the Exiled Monarch The Episode of the Exiled Monarch "The Episode of the Exiled Monarch", a.k.a. "The Diverting Episode of the Exiled Monarch", is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill, which first appeared in the United Kingdom in the August 1914 issue of the "Strand", and in the United States in the September 1916 "Pictorial Review". It was published in book form in the collection "A Man of Means" in 1991. It is the fifth of six stories to feature Roland Bleke, a young man for whom financial success is always a mixed blessing. A new dance craze,