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The King's Singers include a 12-minute song "A Rough Guide to the Royal Succession (It's just one damn King after another…)" by Paul Drayton, on their 2012 album Royal Rhymes and Rounds. This song bears no relation to the mnemonic verses except for its subject matter, a chronology of the monarchy starting with pre-Norman kings "With names ...
The Thrissil and the Rois is a Scots poem composed by William Dunbar to mark the wedding, in August 1503, of King James IV of Scotland to Princess Margaret Tudor of England. The poem takes the form of a dream vision in which Margaret is represented by a rose and James is represented variously by a lion , an eagle and a thistle . [ 1 ]
King of England r. 1483–1485: James III 1451–1488 King of Scots r. 1460–1488: House of Tudor: Henry VII 1457–1509 King of England r. 1485–1509: Elizabeth of York 1466–1503: Edward V 1470–1483 King of England r. 1483: Mary Tudor 1496–1533: Henry VIII 1491–1547 King of England r. 1509–1547: Archibald Douglas c. 1489 –1557 ...
Queen of England: King Richard I King of England 1157–1199 r. 1189–1199: Isabella of Angoulême 1188–1246 Queen of England: King John King of England 1166–1216 r. 1199–1216: Isabel c. 1173 –1217 Countess of Gloucester: Eleanor of Brittany c. 1184 –1241 Fair Maid of Brittany: Matilda of Brittany 1185– before 1189: Arthur I 4th ...
This list of kings and reigning queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, who initially ruled Wessex, one of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which later made up modern England. Alfred styled himself king of the Anglo-Saxons from about 886, and while he was not the first king to claim to rule all of the English, his rule ...
Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom—2022 marks 70 years since her ascension to the throne. Next in line on the royal family tree is Prince Charles, her son ...
Mary, Queen of Scots 1542–1587: Frederick II King of Denmark 1534–1588: Henry IV King of France 1553–1610: King James VI and I [a] 1566–1625 r. 1567–1625 (Scotland) r. 1603–1625 (England) Anne of Denmark 1574–1619 Queen of England and Ireland: John IV 1604–1656 King of Portugal: Henry Frederick 1594–1612 Prince of Wales ...
With the premiere of Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, take a closer look at Queen Charlotte's family tree. (Yes, she really did have 15 children.)