Question: When did the country to which the person who paid for Chopin's funeral invited him become part of the United Kingdom?

chopin's relations with sand were soured in 1846 by problems involving her daughter solange and solange's fiancé, the young fortune-hunting sculptor auguste clésinger. the composer frequently took solange's side in quarrels with her mother; he also faced jealousy from sand's son maurice. chopin was utterly indifferent to sand's radical political pursuits, while sand looked on his society friends with disdain. as the composer's illness progressed, sand had become less of a lover and more of a nurse to chopin, whom she called her "third child". in letters to third parties, she vented her impatience, referring to him as a "child," a "little angel", a "sufferer" and a "beloved little corpse." in 1847 sand published her novel lucrezia floriani, whose main characters—a rich actress and a prince in weak health—could be interpreted as sand and chopin; the story was uncomplimentary to chopin, who could not have missed the allusions as he helped sand correct the printer's galleys. in 1847 he did not visit nohant, and he quietly ended their ten-year relationship following an angry correspondence which, in sand's words, made "a strange conclusion to nine years of exclusive friendship." the two would never meet again. <SEP> Chopin's tombstone, featuring the muse of music, Euterpe, weeping over a broken lyre, was designed and sculpted by Clésinger. Ludwika took Chopin's heart in an urn, preserved in alcohol, back to Poland in 1850. [n 9] She also took a collection of two hundred letters from Sand to Chopin; after 1851 these were returned to Sand, who seems to have destroyed them. The expenses of the funeral and monument, amounting to 5,000 francs, were covered by Jane Stirling, who also paid for the return of the composer's sister Ludwika to Warsaw. <SEP> polish composers of the following generation included virtuosi such as moritz moszkowski, but, in the opinion of j. barrie jones, his "one worthy successor" among his compatriots was karol szymanowski (1882–1937). edvard grieg, antonín dvořák, isaac albéniz, pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky and sergei rachmaninoff, among others, are regarded by critics as having been influenced by chopin's use of national modes and idioms. alexander scriabin was devoted to the music of chopin, and his early published works include nineteen mazurkas, as well as numerous études and preludes; his teacher nikolai zverev drilled him in chopin's works to improve his virtuosity as a performer. in the 20th century, composers who paid homage to (or in some cases parodied) the music of chopin included george crumb, bohuslav martinů, darius milhaud, igor stravinsky and heitor villa-lobos. <SEP> 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. <SEP> In late summer he was invited by Jane Stirling to visit Scotland, where he stayed at Calder House near Edinburgh and at Johnstone Castle in Renfrewshire, both owned by members of Stirling's family. She clearly had a notion of going beyond mere friendship, and Chopin was obliged to make it clear to her that this could not be so. He wrote at this time to Grzymała "My Scottish ladies are kind, but such bores", and responding to a rumour about his involvement, answered that he was "closer to the grave than the nuptial bed." He gave a public concert in Glasgow on 27 September, and another in Edinburgh, at the Hopetoun Rooms on Queen Street (now Erskine House) on 4 October. In late October 1848, while staying at 10 Warriston Crescent in Edinburgh with the Polish physician Adam Łyszczyński, he wrote out his last will and testament—"a kind of disposition to be made of my stuff in the future, if I should drop dead somewhere", he wrote to Grzymała.