Monarchs
Further information: List of the monarchs of the Kingdom of England- Alfred the Great (c. 849 – 899), King of the Anglo-Saxons.
- Queen Anne (1665–1714), also Queen of Scotland, then Queen of Great Britain after 1707
- Charles II (1660–1685), also King of Scotland
- Edward I (1272–1307), English monarch
- Edward II (1307–1327), English monarch
- Edward III (1327–1377), English monarch
- Edward IV (1461–1470 and 1471–1483), English monarch
- Edward V (1470 – c. 1483), English monarch
- Edward VI (1547–1553), first English Protestant monarch.
- Elizabeth I (1558–1603), Protestant queen and first Supreme Governor of the Church of England
- Elizabeth II (1926), English-born British monarch
- Henry III (1207–1272), English monarch
- Henry IV (1367–1413), English monarch
- Henry VI (1421–1471), English monarch
- Henry VIII (1491–1547), separated English Catholicism from link with the Roman Catholic Church
- Mary I (1553–1558), Roman Catholic queen
- Mary II (1662–1694)
- Richard the Lionheart (1157–1199), English monarch, leader and hero of the Third Crusade
- Richard III (1483–1485), last Plantagenet King, and last British monarch to die in Battle
- Victoria (1819–1901)
- William IV (1765–1837)
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