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55. England & Scotland United! St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh.
In this podcast we’re walking down the aisle with a couple who fought like cat and dog for years, but are now about to be joined in union.
The Act of Union came into force in 1707 and England and Scotland were finally brought together by the pen and not the sword. The independent parliaments of Scotland & England were united and a prosperous new beginning was promised, but as the Act that would legally bring them together was signed the bells of St Gilles’ Cathedral, on Edinburgh’s royal mile, rang out with the mournful lament, ‘Why am I so sad on this my wedding day?’
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