British Monarchs Alfred the Great Edward the Elder Athelstan Edmund I Eadred Eadwig Edgar the Peaceful Edward the Martyr Ethelred the Unready Edmund Ironside Reign: c.886 – Reign: 26th October 899 Reign: c.924 – Reign: 27th October 939 Reign: 26th May 946 – Reign: 23rd November Reign: 1st October 959 Reign: 8th July 975 – Reign: 18th March 978 Reign: 23rd April 1016 26th October 899 – 17th July 924 27th October 939 – 26th May 946 23rd November 955 955 – 1st October 959 – 8th July 975 18th March 978 – 23rd April 1016 – 30th November 1016 William the Conqueror William II Henry I Stephen Cnut the Great Harold I Harthacnut Edward the Confessor Harold Godwinson (William I) (William Rufus) (Henry Beauclerc) (Stephen of Blois) Henry II Reign: 18th October 1016 Reign: 12th November Reign: 17th March Reign: 8th June 1042 Reign: 6th January 1066 Reign: 25th December 1066 Reign: 26th September Reign: 5th August 1100 – Reign: 22nd December Reign: 19th December – 12th November 1035 1035 – 17th March 1040 1040 – 8th June 1042 – 5th January 1066 – 14th October 1066 – 9th September 1087 1087 – 2nd August 1100 1st December 1135 1135 – 25th October 1154 1154 – 6th July 1189 Richard I Henry VI Reign: (1st) 1st September (Richard the Lionheart) John Henry III Edward I Edward II Edward III Richard II Henry IV Henry V 1422 – 4th March 1461 Reign: 3rd September 1189 Reign: 27th May 1199 – Reign: 28th October 1216 Reign: 20th November Reign: 8th July 1307 – Reign: 25th January Reign: 22nd June 1377 Reign: 30th September Reign: 21st March 1413 (2nd) 3rd October 1470 – – 6th April 1199 19th October 1216 – 16th November 1272 1272 – 7th July 1307 20th January 1327 1327 – 21st June 1377 – 29th September 1399 1399 – 20th March 1413 – 31st August 1422 11th April 1471 Edward IV Lady Jane Grey Reign: (1st) 4th March 1461 – 3rd October 1470 Edward V Richard III Henry VII Henry VIII Edward VI (disputed) Mary I Elizabeth I James I (2nd) 11th April 1471 – Reign: 9th April 1483 – Reign: 26th June 1483 Reign: 22nd August Reign: 22nd April 1509 Reign: 28th January Reign: 10th July 1553 Reign: 19th July 1553 Reign: 17th November Reign: 24th March 1603 9th April 1483 25th June 1483 – 22nd August 1485 1485 – 21st April 1509 – 28th January 1547 1547 – 6th July 1553 - 19th July 1553 – 17th November 1558 1558 - 24th March 1603 – 27th March 1625 English Commonwealth William III Charles I – No Monarch Charles II James II Mary II (William of Orange) Anne George I George II George III Reign: 27th March 1625 30th January 1649 – Reign: 29th May 1660 Reign: 6th February 1685 Reign: 1689 – 28th Reign: 1689 – 8th Reign: 8th March 1702 Reign: 1st August 1714 Reign: 11th June 1727 Reign: 25th October 1760 – 30th January 1649 29th May 1660 – 6th February 1685 – 11th December 1688 December 1694 March 1702 – 1st August 1714 – 11th June 1727 – 25th October 1760 – 29th January 1820 George IV William IV Victoria Edward VII George V Edward VIII George VI Elizabeth II Reign: 29th January Reign: 26th June 1830 Reign: 20th June 1837 Reign: 22nd January visit twinkl.com Reign: 6th May 1910 – Reign: 20th January 1936 Reign: 11th December Reign: 6th February 1820 – 26th June 1830 – 20th June 1837 – 22nd January 1901 1901 – 6th May 1910 20th January 1936 – 11th December 1936 1936 – 6th February 1952 1952 – Present.