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Top 5 British/English Monarchs

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C C Csiders

C C Csiders

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Now, I am in no way, shape or form, in favour of a monarchy - especially how it is constituted in this country. However, as a keen student of history I thought I would post my top 5 of British, and for pre-1603, English monarchs. I would be interested to see opinions on this.

Mine are:

1. Elizabeth I
2. Henry V
3. Harold Godwinson
4. Edward III
5. Edward VIII

The Cromwells' do not count as Monarchs for this purpose - they were Lord Protectors.
 
canveyshrimper said:
Edward VIII is interesting is that because he abdicated.
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Put love before the crown. I think that deserves some credit. He was especially loved by the people (in general) and took the time and trouble to meet communities that were 'down at heel' in the mid-late 30's. Also, he pi$$ed off the thoroughly dislikeable Stanley Baldwin - so that gets extra credit.
 
C C Csiders said:
Put love before the crown. I think that deserves some credit. He was especially loved by the people (in general) and took the time and trouble to meet communities that were 'down at heel' in the mid-late 30's. Also, he pi$$ed off the thoroughly dislikeable Stanley Baldwin - so that gets extra credit.
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I would have thought Henry the the eighth is worthy of a better mention, that guy got down and dirty with several birds, when it was time to move on, no messy divorce settlement for that boy.
Also he wrote Greensleeves.
Kindly amend your list please taking Edward out and putting Henry in, he was the real deal with the ladies.
 
C C Csiders said:
Put love before the crown. I think that deserves some credit. He was especially loved by the people (in general) and took the time and trouble to meet communities that were 'down at heel' in the mid-late 30's. Also, he pi$$ed off the thoroughly dislikeable Stanley Baldwin - so that gets extra credit.
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Certainly wasn't loved by the Queen Mum, as she attributed the early demise of George VI a direct result of his abdication. I have to agree about Elizabeth I as number one, that period of history has always fascinated me.

1. Elizabeth I
2. Henry VIII
3. Victoria
4. Charles I
5. Edward Longshanks, can't remember his regnal number.
 
Line all of the royal family up for the firing squad i say along with Bernard Manning mourners! Lets have a president!
 
callan said:
I would have thought Henry the the eighth is worthy of a better mention, that guy got down and dirty with several birds, when it was time to move on, no messy divorce settlement for that boy.
Also he wrote Greensleeves.
Kindly amend your list please taking Edward out and putting Henry in, he was the real deal with the ladies.
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Nah! I can't be doing with stinking leg ulcers, so on that basis alone, he stays out. Would also, along with William III, quite clearly have been a Glasgow Rangers fan.
 
My histortical knowledge of moncharchs isnt great but ill do my best :

1. King Ralph
2. King Rollo
3. King Kong
4. King College Hospital
5. Jonathon King.
 
C C Csiders said:
Nah! I can't be doing with stinking leg ulcers, so on that basis alone, he stays out. Would also, along with William III, quite clearly have been a Glasgow Rangers fan.
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Isnt today Marching day up in Glasgow?
 
callan said:
Stick a bowler hat on and pop in for a pint!
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C C Csiders has just told his friend about his lunchtime escapades bedecked in orange down the local Irish boozer

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1. Henry VII. He may have been a bit dull, but he sorted this country out after a period of monstrously long turmoil - The 100 Years' War was followed in pretty swift order by the Wars of the Roses. Henry stamped hard on any pretenders to his throne - executing Perkin Warbeck and forcing Lambert Simnel to work in his kitchen (which is where Simnel cake comes from, incidentally). He swelled the crown's coffers through tough but generally accepted taxation, and it was only through his efforts to put the country on an even financial and magisterial footing that the likes of Henry VIII and Elizabeth could go on to become the flashy monarchs that they ended up being.

2. Elizabeth I. I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king. Queenie rocked, and she saw off a navy more than twice the size of ours. The only thing she failed to do was to leave an heir... but crucially, it was she who finally ensured that the break from Rome was permanent after a period of turmoil under first her brother Edward VI (an arch-Protestant) and then under Mary I (an arch-Catholic). Crushed and executed her rival Mary, Queen of Scots - but then allowed union with Scotland to take place after her death, thus reconciling the two nations.

3. Edward I (Longshanks). Don't tell the wife, but anyone with the nickname of "Hammer of the Scots" is clearly a dude. LOL! He also sorted out the Welsh... they were well and truly owned by the time Edward finished them. Built some cracking castles too. Ultimately, the first monarch to change the concept of England into the concept of Britain.

4. George VI. Took over a crown for which, in truth, he'd never prepared - and preceded to reign with great calmness and dignity over the country during the dark days of World War II, when this country was sustained to the fiercest attacks and threats to its independence since the days of the Norman Conquest.

5. Elizabeth II. She has, in many ways, had to contend with some of the sternest challenges the British monarchy has faced. First was the break up of the Empire, then the new sense of world order with the Commonwealth and other heads of state, then the radicalism of the 60s and 70s, and then the modern-day threats to the monarchy from the wave of republicanism which swelled around the time of Diana's death. She has maintained a sense of dignity, steadfastness and calm whilst the modern world moved more quickly around her than it has perhaps at any time in its history.
 
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