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...Scotland's national hero who in 1297 cleared his country of the armies of England's King Edward I, ruled briefly as "guardian of the Kingdom,'' then was betrayed and captured by the English...
...wars with England ended and the orchestra broke into God Save the Queen, Scottish Nationalist Wendy Wood, 66. stayed in her seat and hissed. Then, while tweedy Englishmen and their sensibly shod wives, stared in amazement, Wendy led a scattering of supporters in a ragged rendition of Scotland's own unofficial national anthem...
Which Elizabeth? Wendy Wood's protest, delivered on the anniversary of Wallace's beheading in London in 1305, was a sharp reminder that despite 2½ centuries of union with England, Scotland's 5,169,000 people remain a proudly independent lot. The notion that the 1707 Act of Union that joined the two countries represented a Scottish surrender drives Scotsmen to distraction. "We whacked the Romans," they say, "and we whacked the English." And Scottish national pride, always touchy, has taken on a new tenderness since the crowning of Elizabeth II. who. the Scots insist...
Takeover Bid. Only a relative handful of Scots sympathize with Wendy Wood's demand for complete Scottish autonomy; only once (1945) has a Scottish Nationalist been elected to Britain's Parliament. But all Scotsmen reserve the right to blame England for everything from Scotland's inordinate unemployment (3.1% in Scotland v. 1.4% for Britain as a whole) to its high rate of emigration (21,000 people last year) and occasional lapses from the stern Scottish morality. "Our illegitimacy rate," they enjoy pointing out, "is highest in those parts of the country that border England...
...Bonnie Prince Andrew, aged six months, was pictured in the arms of his doting nanny, Mabel Anderson, as he boarded a train at London's King's Cross Station. Spry but not yet self-propelled on foot, he was on his way to a holiday at Scotland's Balmoral Castle with his royal parents, showed signs of a future Churchillian determination in the clench of his tiny fists...