Welcome to Rex Factor.

This week, Donald the second. This week, Donald the second.

With your host Graham Duke and Ali Hood.

Hello and welcome to and welcome to Rex Factor reviewing all the Kings and Queens of Scots from Kenneth

Macalpin to James the sixth and this week Donald the second.

confusing.

Confused you last time by his emergence.

Hopefully it will all be a little clearer this time.

In case you are confused, one of the hairy ones.

Yes.

And he's presumably already in your good books due to the fact that he's got a

a straightforward name, yes please, thank you, and it's not spelled with peas,

zs, yeah, lovely. Exactly. Now, quick bit of background stuff as is the custom. After the

Romers Lee, Britain. Yeah, we've got four key kingdoms in what will become Scotland. We have Pix who are in the north, northeast,

Britons who are in the kingdom of Strathclyde in the southwest, Scots-Oves, who are on the west, Dow Reiter, and the Saxons, who are northeast

England but also goes into southeast Scotland via the Kingdom of Northumbria.

And then scuffling around the edges

the Vikings and the Irish.

Yes, so the Vikings come along.

839, they wipe out the once dominant Pictish leadership, leaves a power vacuum which is filled by our first

monarch Kenny McP. Kenny Mack. He comes from nowhere to rule both Dalryata and Pigman's,

makes marriage alliances with the kings of Strathclyde and also

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