Monarchy

Many believe the drink was later dubbed a Bloody Mary after Queen Mary Tudor and her particularly bloody reign over England in the 16th century. However, a 1934 ad, noted by Esquire, states that entertainer George Jessel named the drink after a friend, Mary Geraghty.She was the first-ever Queen of England to rule in her own right, but to her critics, Mary I of England has long been known only as “Bloody Mary.” This unfortunate nickname was thanks to her persecution of Protestant heretics, whom she burned at the stake in the hundreds

George III.

He was about 5'6" ~ 5'8". Check photos of him next to other famous people.For instance in a photo of him next to Richard Nixon he is about 4" shorter than Nixon. Nixon is about 5'10".

All the Windsor family were relatively short at that time.

King James I of England (who was also King James VI of Scotland) had written about the "Divine Right of Kings"- that the king's authority to rule came from God. He had numerous comflicts with his Parliament, mainly about raising money, and ruled for several periods without Parliament, so he could be said to be the last absolute monarch. His son, King Charles I attempted to carry on his father's ideas which lead to the English Civil War. This came to an end in Charles' defeat and execution for treason and England temporarily becoming a Republic under Oliver Cromwell.

There was no Mary Tudor, Queen of Scots. Mary, Queen of Scots was a Stuart who was the great granddaughter of Henry VII. Mary Tudor, Queen of England was her cousin. Mary Queen of Scots was born December 8, 1542.

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because she didn't like the way her sister Mary Tudor treated the people of England. They thought that Elizabeth might be plotting against Mary but no evidence was found. Also they were different religions

He became King after his brother Richard I died. As Richard I left no heirs John became King.

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He was the son of Edmund Tudor Earl of Richmond and the Lady Margaret Beaufort. He was born at Pembroke Castle in 1457. Following the death of his half Uncle King Henry VI, he was the only heir left to the House of Lancaster and as such seen as a threat by the opposing House of York and obliged to flee abroad where he remained until 1485. In that year he raised an army and returned to England where he met the last Yorkist King (Richard III) in battle. Despite being outnumbered, Henry won the Battle of Bosworth Field, King Richard III was killed and Henry assumed the crown as King Henry VII, the first monarch of the House of Tudor. He married Elizabeth of York, a Yorkist Princess in an attempt to unite the warring Houses of York and Lancaster.

He was the longest reigning Monarch in the History of Europe.

He didn't. He wanted to KILL them all.

Alfred the Great (died sometime between 899 and 901 CE) - a renaissance man, great in intellect, great in moral probity, and great in military leadership and statesmanship.

The most well known Queen of England was Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth I reigned from 1558-1603 CE.

Edward VI, son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour. He was succeeded by Mary I after his death.

Charles I and his Parliaments were in constant disagreement. Though Charles called many Parliaments they never got along and for a time (called the personal rule) Charles tried to rule without Parliaments. To do so he had to raise money by means other than standard taxation (as only Parliament could levy a tax) and so he tried many things, some of them of dubious legality, to keep the country from going bankrupt.

Eventually though he was forced to call a Parliament because he could not raise enough money. Many of those elected were very unhappy with the way he was running the country and so, instead of giving him the money he needed to put down the Scottish rebels (the Bishops War) they tried and executed his advisers even though they were innocent of any crime. Eventually things got so bad that war broke out between King and Parliament (there is still disagreement about who actually started the war, though I think Parliament was most to blame).

After the King's side was beaten by Cromwell's New Model Army and Charles was captured, he was brought to London and tried for waging war against his own country. Parliament by this time was only a rump of the elected body, many of those loyal to the king having left it over the years, and even many of those who supported the war against Charles did not believe he should be executed and were forceably excluded, not to mention that the House of Lords had no part in it. This Rump Parliament, under the control of the army, had Charles tried and executed, which was very unpopular and led to an invasion by the Scots - even though they were the ones who started the war in the beginning.

King Richard I married Berengaria of Navarre (a Spanish princess) on 12 May 1191 at Limassol, Cyprus, while Richard was on his way to join the 3rd Crusade.

Berengaria was Spanish, a direct descendant of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (El Cid). Richard was Anglo-Norman and spoke only Anglo-Norman French and it is doubtful that they saw much of each other after the wedding. In 1193 Richard was imprisoned in Germany on his return through Europe, while Berengaria went to France and campaigned to raise the huge ransom demanded for his release. Eventually Richard returned to England, but Berengaria did not join him - she is the only Queen of England never to set foot in the country while her husband was king.

She lived at Le Mans in France, but it is believed that Berengaria did come to England after Richard's death to enquire about the payment of her pension money which King John was withholding. She returned to Le Mans, eventually becoming a nun and joining the convent there until her death in 1230 when she was buried at the Abbey of Le Mans.

She remains one of the least-known Queens of England and perhaps one of the most neglected by a King of England.

He wasn't.

He was the king, and therefore head of the monarchistic system in France at the time. You can't expect a king to say "you're right, having a king is no good, and should be abolished. I agree with you revolutionary guys, let's get rid of me and start a republic!." Of course he first tried to create a peacefull way of cooexistence between the monarchy system and the revolutionaries wishes with the Assemblee National, but when it became clear that the Assemblee did not want that (they wanted to abolish the King, Queen and other royalty all together), and even captured the royal family, he had to do something to try to rescue himself and his family. He therefore wrote letters together with Marie Antoinette to all European monarchs to ask for their help in this delicate situation, but nobody came to their rescue. Even Marie Antoinette's nephew, Francis II, now emperor of Austria, did not want to help them. When count Fersen (the alledged lover of Marie Antoinette, who kept on trying to free the royal family from abroad) met him, he coldly said: "I will not interfere. I do not know my aunt, but I am sure she will know how to die when it is her time.".

Because Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette tried to get help from abroad, the revolutionaries called that betrayal.

It's probably fair to say that most peasants didn't think about the King at all; they were too busy just trying to stay alive. The revolution, after all, took place mostly in the towns, and was led by the middle class. The peasants resented their noble landlords when these were oppressive, and there was a general feeling that the King wasted tax money pandering to the caprices and demands of the Austrian Woman, the Queen; but beyond that, he was too far away for peasants to bother about him.

King James was king of Scotland before he was king of England. However, James, as did all kings and queens of England 1340-1360 and 1369-1707 and the Kingdom of Great Britain from 1707 - 1801, laid a claim to the throne of France.

King George III died on 29th January, 1820

In the later part of his life, George III suffered from bouts of severe mental illness which became permanent. Doctors were puzzled by this at the time, but it is now believed that he had a blood disease called <span class="cs_misspelled">porphyria.</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyria" title="Porphyria">I</a>n 1810, George <span class="cs_misspelled">III's</span> eldest son, also called George, as Prince of Wales was made Prince Regent and he ruled as Regent. On George <span class="cs_misspelled">III's</span> death, the Prince Regent succeeds his father as George IV.

There has not been a King (or Queen) of England since the year 1707.

In 1936 there were three British Kings:

George V, who died on 20th January 1936,

Edward VIII, who reigned from 20th January 1936 until he abdicated the throne on 11th December 1936,

George VI who became King on 11th December 1936 and reigned until his death on 6th February 1952.

They all had the title "King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland." - not King of England.

* King John raised the taxes(which Barons paid most of) * King John made the Barons serve in his army or pay money * King John made the English Barons who owned land in France give it up * King John imprisoned the Barons who he thought were annoying or would make them pay heavy fines * The Barons thought that King John had killed his nephew Arthur

Though a majorly destructive event, an estimated six people only died from the Great Fire of 1666. While the fire consumed the poorer districts, it did not come near Charles II's palace at all, and indeed the monarch lived on for another 19 years or so.

France, most notably in the Palace of Versailles although as ruler for 72 years and 110 days, he often was off on war campaigns and had other palaces, too.

I cannot imagine they thought much of him at all. He was a drooling half-wit. Parliament was in complete control of the government.