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    The British monarchy traces its origins to medieval Saxon and Norman kings. It has transitioned through several royal houses, including Plantagenet, Lancaster, York, Tudor, Stuart, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and currently Windsor. The monarchy is the constitutional form of government in the UK, Crown dependencies, and overseas territories, with Queen Elizabeth II ascending to the throne in 1952 as the current monarch.

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    The British monarchy traces its origins to medieval Saxon and Norman kings. It has transitioned through several royal houses, including Plantagenet, Lancaster, York, Tudor, Stuart, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and currently Windsor. The monarchy is the constitutional form of government in the UK, Crown dependencies, and overseas territories, with Queen Elizabeth II ascending to the throne in 1952 as the current monarch.

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    The British monarchy traces its origins to medieval Saxon and Norman kings. It has transitioned through several royal houses, including Plantagenet, Lancaster, York, Tudor, Stuart, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and currently Windsor. The monarchy is the constitutional form of government in the UK, Crown dependencies, and overseas territories, with Queen Elizabeth II ascending to the throne in 1952 as the current monarch.

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    The 

    Monarchy of the
    United Kingdom
    The British monarchy
    is the constitutional form of government by which a hereditary
    sovereign reigns as the head of state of
    •the United Kingdom,
    •the Crown dependencies (the Bailiwick of Guernsey, the Bailiwick of
    Jersey and the Isle of Man) and
    •the British Overseas Territories.

    The current monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who ascended the


    throne in 1952.
    The British monarchy traces its origins
    from the early medieval Saxon and
    Norman kings
    EGBERT 827 – 839 was the first king
    STEPHEN 1135-1154 the last one
    The House of Plantagenet was a royal house which
    originated from the lands of Anjou in France. The
    family held the English throne from 1154  to 1399,
    when Richard II died in battle.
    - Matilda, Duchess of Saxony
    - Henry II
    - Richard Lionheart
    - John Without Land
    - Henry III
    - Edward I
    - Edward II
    - Edward III
    - Richard II
    In the 13th century   the Principality of
    Wales became a client state of the
    English Kingdom.
    Magna Carta Libertatum
    commonly called Magna Carta  

    is a royal charter of rights 
    agreed to by King John of England 
    at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.
    The House of Lancaster was a cadet
    branch of the royal House of
    Plantagenet, (held the throne 1399-1471)

    - Henry IV
    - Henry V
    - Henry VI
    The Wars of the Roses, were a series of civil
    wars fought over control of the English throne in
    the 15th century, fought between
    Lancaster and York, with York being the victor.

     The wars were named many years afterward from


    the supposed badges of the contending parties:
    the white rose of York and the red rose of
    Lancaster.
    Following the war, the Houses of York and Tudor
    were united, creating a new royal dynasty.
    House of York 1461-1485
    Edward IV
    Edward V
    Richard III

    House of Tudor 1485-1603


    Henry VII
    Henry VIII
    Edward VII
    Jane Grey
    Mary Tudor
    Elizabeth I
    From 1603, the English and Scottish kingdoms were
    ruled by a single sovereign (Stuart Dynasty).

    Between 1649 and 1660, the tradition of monarchy was


    broken by the republican Commonwealth of England,
    which followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
    In 1707, the kingdoms of England and Scotland
    were merged to create the Kingdom of Great
    Britain (House of Stuart)

    In 1801, the Kingdom of Ireland joined to create


    the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
    (House of Hannover)
    Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Dynasty) 1901-1910

    In 1917, the name of the royal house was changed from


    the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the
    English Windsor because of anti-German sentiment in
    the United Kingdom during World War I. 
    There have been four British monarchs of the
    House of Windsor since then: 
    George V 
    Edward VIII 
    George VI and 
    Elizabeth II.

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