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England didn't.
It was actually Scotland who formed the union between Scotland and England, giving birth to the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
It sounds like you have been listening to misleading Scottish separatist politicians like Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon. They like to lie about history in order to mislead their own people in a personal crusade for personal gain rather than for national benefit - God Complex if you like.


True history

What happened was, that in 1603, Queen Elizabeth I of England died. She didn't marry and had no children, so there was no heir to take the throne after her. Because King James VI of Scotland was a distant blood relation to Queen Elizabeth I, he inherited the throne of England, becoming King James I of England as well as VI of Scotland.

James found it a big headache that he was king for two countries, constantly running back and forth between the two. So he proposed that both Scotland and England should be united into one nation, as we were before the Romans split us up by building Hadrian's Wall. However the Scottish and English parliaments laughed at and rejected the idea.

Therefore James gave himself the official title of "King James of Great Britain". Which officially united both countries. He later wrote a law to cement the union, called Act of Union. In the law James stated that London is the capital city of the union and the home for the monarch of both. The reason he chose London as the head of the United Kingdom was because England had a stronger military, stronger economy, had colonies overseas, had powerful allies and had an unlimited supply of resources, all of which Scotland lacked.


Conclusion

As you see, it was actually a SCOTTISH king who united Scotland and England into the United Kingdom. The English had little, well, in fact, no choice.
Educated people in both Scotland and England just want the two to get along. After all, both Scottish and English share the same blood.

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