Alexander Murdoch: England, Scotland, and the Acts of Union (1707). In: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Abgerufen am 19. Juni 2021 (englisch): „On 1 May 1707 England and Scotland (since 1603 a union of crowns) became the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain'. The new united kingdom was to be represented by a 'union' flag and governed by a British parliament at Westminster and a shared head of state (with the contentious issue of monarchical succession now settled in favour of the protestant house of Hanover).“
