With all due respect: When Elizabeth of England died in 1603, as next in line, James VI of Scotland inherited the throne of England, thus becoming James I of GREAT BRITAIN, not just of ENGLAND!. (James VI of Scotland was the son of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots. She had been beheaded per her cousin Elizabeth's signature.) >From the year 1603 on, therefore, all monarchs were not king or queen of ENGLAND but of GREAT BRITAIN, etc. Both the crowns of Scotland and England were united under one CROWN in that year. Queen Victoria, therefore, can not be Queen Victoria of ENGLAND. Also, the present monarch's numerical title is in error, as she is not Elizabeth II. The first Elizabeth was correctly Elizabeth I of ENGLAND as the crowns had not been united at that point, to repeat. The Scots vehemently protested the present queen's nomenclature, but to no avail. Bad enough that she is entitled Queen Elizabeth II, but worse that she is too often referred to as Queen Elizabeth II of ENGLAND everywhere but Scotland. The year 1603 was supposed to have sorted all of that. Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is the queen regnant of sixteen independent states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. Simply, for the purposes of everyday usage, her title is Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. To repeat: historically it is wrong to refer to her as Elizabeth II. She should be Elizabeth I as the first Elizabeth to ascend the throne AFTER the UNION of the CROWNS. This is probably not of much interest to some, but it is of historical importance to those who live in the constituent parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and particularly Scotland. Maisie ----------------------- Subject: [Irish Genealogy] Recent Trip to Ireland - Cobh,Cork's marvelous "Queenstown Story" Museum Snipped: " When Queen Victoria of England came to Ireland for the first time in 1849, Cobh was the first Irish ground she set foot on. The town renamed it "Queenstown" in her honor."