Yep, all Celts but the different groups/tribes/nations weren’t always friends, and just as often as anywhere/when else at each others’ throats.
Why wouldn’t it just be “Scotland?”
Some people like to make simple things complicated, I guess.
This brings up a question: Can a country’s name be copyrighted? What if Scotland decides to also call itself the UK, England, Great Britain, etc? Can current England tell them no and they have to change it?
Are they planning on bringing back the King of Scotland? According to Wikipedia Franz the duke of Bavaria would be the legitimate claimant. He looks kinda goofy though, perhaps they can find a descend of Robert the Bruce or just nominate Sean Connery. A nation without a king is a puny and tiresome little affair.
No, Idi Amin was the last one.
Elizabeth II is the legitimate claimant by the rules agreed upon in the early 1700s. By “legitimate,” I think you mean “Jacobite,” which disputes the legitimacy of Elizabeth’s claim based on the rules in place prior to that. I think we should go back to the medieval system and have the various legitimate royal claimants either agree amongst themselves or slaughter each other.
So, the answer is “Eastern Ireland”?
Fine, then, how about either Prince Michael of Albany (a total fraud, but a cool guy), or one of the sons of Idi Amin, the last King of Scotland?
Formally Scotland. In terms of conventional long form, could be anything. Kingdom of Scotland, Commonwealth of Scotland, State of Scotland, Scottish Kingdom, or no conventional long form as is the case with some nations.
Yes, I’ve always liked the ones that have no “corporate title”. Gives a confident vibe, like “we don’t have to explain, it is what it is”.
Though as I understand it, they are planning to make Jessica Alba the mascot of the country and have a request out to be able to embalm her body, Evita style, when she passes away, so they can continue to cart her around for centuries to come.
The rUK could make life difficult for them if they tried something like that. For an analogy, see the Wikipedia page on Macedonia’s ongoing dispute with Greece over its name.
The Celts were not the original inhabitants of Britain, they themselves were invaders who slaughtered or assimilated (probably a bit of both) the people who were there before them. There were, in fact, several waves of invasion or immigration into the British isles before the Celts showed up. If there are any people left at all who are descended mainly from the original ancient Britons, the first hom. saps. to inhabit the islands, they are probably in Wales (although most Welsh people are of predominantly Celtic descent).
Anyway, no, if (as now seems very unlikely) Scotland becomes independent, it is not going to be allowed to take the name “Britain” from the rest of the current country, which will inevitably remain much larger and more powerful than they will be. But, in any case, they will not want it. The “yes” supporters are clearly very fond of the name “Scotland”, and will keep it.
What point are you making?
Every country has thousands of years of indigenous inhabitants who are basically lost to history, but whose genes survive in the current populations (English as well as Welsh: if any pre-Celtic genes survive, 2000 years later everybody on the island has them). Nowhere else does anybody much care: I blame Stonehenge. In Britain, there are a very few pre-Celtic place names, but at the dawn of recorded history, the only people on the island (as far as we can tell) are Celtic. So for all intents and purposes, the Celtic peoples of the UK are the original inhabitants, by virtue of being the first historically attested peoples and the cultures with the longest time-depth on the island. Otherwise, no place on earth has the original inhabitants outside of a few islands only settled in the last 1500 years like New Zealand and Iceland.
All the identities currently at play in the U.K. were formed in the Middle Ages or later, anyway. The Welsh (and the Cornish) can trace their culture directly back to the ancient Celts on the island, but the ancient Celts weren’t Welsh (or Cornish)—they were Caledones or Silures or what have you.
Who is the Jacobite heir? Or the closest one?
There seem to be a couple. Wikipedia on the subject, which seems to support Rune in saying this guy, Francis II. Edit: he doesn’t seem to be very interested in the subject, though apparently his supporters still claim that he’s King of Ireland, too.
He is, like his predecessors since the death of Henry IX, not going to make a claim. His successors might sometime, since we can’t see into the future.
And I do regard him as King of the Three Kingdoms. Indefeasible right is not concerned with what others declare or do.
I think an Independent Scotland should be called ‘Pongo’.
I daresay practically every person in Britain, except for those whose ancestors came within the past three generations or so, is partly descended from those. You know, like all Euros are statistically certain to be descended from Charlemagne.
Well, there are two countries called “Congo”. Formally they are the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but in practice they are distinguished by their capital cities - Congo-Brazzaville and Congo-Kinshasa.