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Also interesting how Scottish postboxes don't have the cypher EIIR for the present queen, as she is not considered II by many Scots, and the boxes would be repeatedly vandalised/blown up. I believe though that Churchill introduced legislation that all future monarchs would be numbered as the higher of the two kingdoms, so a future James would be the VII.



Indeed: the current Queen is Elizabeth II of England, but Elizabeth I of Scots as well as the United Kingdom.




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