Separate ordinals were abandoned when the two states merged in accordance with the 1707 Acts of Union , with subsequent monarchs using ordinals apparently based on English not Scottish history ( it might be argued that the monarchs have simply taken the higher ordinal , which to date has always been English ) .
Separate ordinals were abandoned when the two states merged with the Act of Union 1707 , with subsequent monarchs using ordinals apparently based on English not Scottish history ( it might be argued that the monarchs have simply taken the higher ordinal , which to date has always been English ) .