<P> When King David II died without issue , his nephew Robert II established the House of Stuart , which would rule Scotland uncontested for the next three centuries . James VI , Stuart king of Scotland , also inherited the throne of England in 1603 , and the Stuart kings and queens ruled both independent kingdoms until the Act of Union in 1707 merged the two kingdoms into a new state , the Kingdom of Great Britain . Ruling until 1714 , Queen Anne was the last Stuart monarch . Since 1714 , the succession of the British monarchs of the houses of Hanover and Saxe - Coburg and Gotha ( Windsor ) has been due to their descent from James VI and I of the House of Stuart . </P>
<P> When King David II died without issue , his nephew Robert II established the House of Stuart , which would rule Scotland uncontested for the next three centuries . James VI , Stuart king of Scotland , also inherited the throne of England in 1603 , and the Stuart kings and queens ruled both independent kingdoms until the Act of Union in 1707 merged the two kingdoms into a new state , the Kingdom of Great Britain . Ruling until 1714 , Queen Anne was the last Stuart monarch . Since 1714 , the succession of the British monarchs of the houses of Hanover and Saxe - Coburg and Gotha ( Windsor ) has been due to their descent from James VI and I of the House of Stuart . </P>
when did scotland become part of the union
when did scotland become part of the union
1707
1707