Gordon England body badges...

[David Stepney]

Ian, Scotland was never conquered, although Edward 1 had a go! That is how he got the nickname of 'Hammer of the Scots'. It was not until 1603 that any semblance of union came about between England and Scotland with the accession to the throne of Englandby Elizabeth's cousin, James 6th of Scotland, who became James 1st of England. However, there was no true political union until the Act of Union of 1707, which created the beginings of the United Kingdom.

Wales, on the other hand, was conquered, the southern lands having been invaded by the Normans. Edward 1st finished the job by defeating Llywellyn ap Gruffudd in 1277, after which Wales was largely forgotten by the English crown until 1536, when Henry VIII decided to annex the whole of the principality formally by the Act of Union of 1536 after which Wales became wholly subject to England and its laws, and, indeed, become part of England. It is only after the rise of Welsh nationalism during the latter part of the 19th and during the 20th centuries that, in 1999 we got a measure of our independence back.

So indeed, Scotland has always been treated differently from Wales, hence its exclusion from the map on the GE badge.

His name was England, after all.