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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 62282, member: 708&quot;]Although i should add on that J is not traditionally used in Latin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You also could do with learning your English monarchs from Charles II, it&#039;s quite easy, here goes.</p><p><br /></p><p>James I (1603-1625) The one that Guy Fawkes tried to blow up in 1605, he was invited down to England (from Scotland) in 1603 to become King after his mother&#039;s cousin Elizabeth I died. (James&#039; mother was Mary Queen of Scots).</p><p><br /></p><p>He was succeeded in 1625 by his son Charles I who ruled until 1649, he was the one that had the Civil War, Cavaliers and Roundheads and all that. He was captured, tried by Parliament and executed in 1649.</p><p><br /></p><p>From 1649-1660 there was no monarch of England, instead it was a Republic ruled by Parliament under Oliver Cromwell, and briefly after Oliver&#039;s death in 1658 his son Richard was the main man but he resigned in 1659.</p><p><br /></p><p>Charles I&#039;s eldest son Charles II was invited back from his exile in France and he reigned from 1660-1685 (through the 1665 plague and subsequent Great Fire of London in 1666).</p><p><br /></p><p>Due to Charles&#039; wife being infertile he died &#039;childless&#039; (actually he had a heck of alot of children but none of them were legitimate so it barred them from succession). Therefore Charles&#039; younger brother James was given the job of king. There was some controversy surrounding this though because at that time religion mattered and England was Protestant and proud of it, James was an open Catholic. At first he agreed not to try and instill Catholicism on England, but James heavily favoured and promoted Catholics and thus Parliament wanted him out. In 1688 they overthrew him by calling in William III of Orange and Nassau (a Dutchman) who was a keen Protestant. He was married to James&#039; daughter Mary.</p><p><br /></p><p>James fled abroad in 1688 after abdicating and his very young son James Stuart went with him (later the old pretender) who then went on to father a son of his own called Bonnie Prince Charlie (the young pretender).</p><p><br /></p><p>William and Mary ruled together from 1688 to 1694, but she died of smallpox in 1694. William ruled alone until 1702 when his horse tripped over a mole hill, he fell off and shattered his shoulder, the resulting infection proved fatal.</p><p><br /></p><p>He was succeeded by Mary&#039;s younger (but much fatter) sister Anne (too fat she couldn&#039;t walk to her own coronation, that and the bad gout problem). Anne was in a bit of a mess at the time, before the end of her rather short reign she&#039;d produced 17 children and every single one died before she did, her husband died also before she did. By 1714 Anne was husbandless, childless and weiry, when she died she left a problem, no heir.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s when one of Charles II&#039;s cousin&#039;s decendents was brought in, George of Hannover, a German who became king George I. He faced the uprising of the eldest son of James II in 1715, The old Pretender to the throne was defeated and sent packing back to France where he died drunk many years later.</p><p><br /></p><p>George died in 1727 and was succeeded by his son George II who had to deal with the uprising of the young pretender in 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie failed, dressed up as a woman and then ran away back to France, where he also died a drunkard. George II also holds the claim to fame of being the last English king to go into battle personally. Although he&#039;s shouldn&#039;t have bothered as he might have been willing but the horse wasn&#039;t, it turned around and legged it with George still sat on top. A few hours later as the battle was winding up George came strolling back without the horse.</p><p><br /></p><p>George&#039;s eldest son Prince Frederick was accidentally killed whilst playing cricket when a cricket ball hit him on the head. George II and his wife were greatly pleased by this turn of events as they both utterly despised him, but then again Georgian father&#039;s and sons never got on.</p><p><br /></p><p>When George II died in 1760, he was succeeded by his grandson George III (the son of the late Frederick). George III was an interesting character all round, he was actually rather well liked in his early days because he was more down to earth than most monarchs. Unfortunately due to inbreeding amongst a few other things George had a condition known as Porphyria, which basically made him appear to be totally barking mad and as he got older the disease became more severe. By 1811 he&#039;d all sense of reality and was deemed unfit to rule. Thus his son George was called up to be the regent (and this George was a bit on the mad side too), the period from 1811-1820 is known as the Regency period, George III was apparently unaware of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>With George III&#039;s death in 1820, his son who had been regent all these year finally became George IV. George only ruled 10 years when his excessive over-indulgence in alcohol, laundanum and rich foods finished him off in 1830.</p><p><br /></p><p>He was replaced by his brother William IV in 1830, William had been in the Navy for most of his life and thus had a habit of swearing and spitting. William was much preferred to George by the general public, but he never really enjoyed the popularity that he perhaps would have done today. William apparantly occasionally rode around London in his open topped coach and would stop and casually chat with people in the street, he&#039;d probably even give them a lift if they asked nice enough.</p><p><br /></p><p>His death in 1837 paved the way for Victoria who really doesn&#039;t need much of an introduction really. Fell madly in love with Prince Albert he died in the early 1860s, she spent the remainder of her life in mourning, and rumour has it that she was infrequenly amused, as well as being addicted to her opiate cough medicine. When she died in 1901 her son Edward whom she&#039;d never liked became king. Edward was actually rather popular desipte the fact that he often went to Paris to womanise and he had mistresses all over the place. Edward was in his 60s when he came to the throne and it came as no surprise that he didn&#039;t last too long. He died in 1910 and was replaced by his son George V who was a very different man all round.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yet again George V and his sons did not get on, George was a rather moralistic man and believed firmly that children should be seen and not heard, and perhaps not even seen. No doubt when he died in 1936 he knew that his eldest son was to be a disappointment to him.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edward VIII succeeded rather briefly in 1936 and abdicated before the year was out, tradition has it that he had to do that because he loved an American divorcee, well that was the cover story. The real reason was Edward had a real affinity with his German roots and openly supported and admired Adolf Hitler, Edward was therefore a security liability should England go to war with Germany and he thus had to go, and go he did.</p><p><br /></p><p>His younger brother Albert succeeded him, although to ensure he didn&#039;t upset the applecart (as Victoria wouldn&#039;t have liked it) he changed his name to George and became the sixth one. George was not king material at all, he stammered, stuttered and was a nervous wreck. He wanted to be a quiet family man more than anything, this is not what he got, thus he smoked to calm his nerves. Unfortunately he smoked himself to death in 1952 when he died of cancer.</p><p><br /></p><p>His daughter Elizabeth succeeded and is still around now...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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