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When Elizabeth II became queen some postal boxes with "EIIR" were defaced in Scotland because she wasn't the second Elizabeth to rule over Scotland, but the first. Did a similar thing happen when Edward VII assume power, seeing as he was the first "Scottish" king Edward and not the 7th?

by /u/whitesock in /r/AskHistorians

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