In The United Kingdom
- The Wars of the Roses pitted the Yorkists against the Lancastrians
- During the English Civil War, the Royalists or Cavaliers supported King Charles I (and later King Charles II).
- The Jacobites are supporters of the deposed James II and his line after the Glorious Revolution
- The Williamites or Orangemen supported William III against James II
- The Loyalists are supporters of the post-Glorious Revolution monarchy and/or the British Empire
- The Royalist Party UK seeks to safeguard the role of the monarch in British politics
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Famous quotes containing the words united and/or kingdom:
“I thought it altogether proper that I should take a brief furlough from official duties at Washington to mingle with you here to-day as a comrade, because every President of the United States must realize that the strength of the Government, its defence in war, the army that is to muster under its banner when our Nation is assailed, is to be found here in the masses of our people.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.””
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 13:31,32.