Union of the Crowns
England and Scotland continued as two separate states sharing a monarch , who directed their domestic and foreign policy along with Ireland until the Acts of Union of 1707 during the reign of the last Stuart monarch , Anne , though there was a republican interregnum in the 1650s , during which the Tender of Union of Oliver Cromwell created the Commonwealth of England , Scotland and Ireland , which ended with The Restoration . 
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