His descendants passed the crown through a tangled mess of relatives and houses, and it eventually came to James VI and I in 1603.
He was the last exclusively Scottish king and first king of Great Britain.
James I was the first monarch of England, who established the Stuart house, which handed over to the House of Hanover, Queen Victoria’s family.
The Hanover house then gave birth to the modern Royal Family, but through necessity rather than heritage.
