Welcome to Rex Factor.

This week, Donald the third. This week, Donald the third.

With your host Graham Duke and Ali Hood. Hello! Hello! Hello and welcome to Rex Factor reviewing all the Kings and Queens of Scots from

Kenneth Mcaupin to James the sixth. We've not been doing the Scots for a while

actually it's been a bit of a gap yeah because we've just done

our very first special episode yeah battle of Waterloo now I love that it was a lot of

fun we'll we'll come back to it a little bit later. We may have a little preview perhaps.

Oh lucky devils. But we're back now with the Scots. Now when we started just

before recording Ali was saying to me,

so what is it, Malcolm the Third this week?

Is it?

I knew it.

He sounded familiar.

So it's probably good if we have a little bit of backgroundy stuff

to kick us off.

And Malcolm the Third is probably all we

need to do for that backgroundy stuff. So Malcolm the Third had a very pivotal

rain this is sort of mid to late 11th century in Scotland and he really takes the country

from this sort of obscurity of the dynastic walls where he had that alternating

succession not very much evidence it was all a bit murky and he brings it much more into the medieval era it's much more recognizable

Scotland particularly because he married St Margaret who was the sister of the

last Anglo-Saxon prince, Edgar the Etheling.

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