The history of the Crown

Britain's monarchy has evolved over many centuries: emerging as the unified Crown of the United Kingdom as the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms merged, followed by Wales and Ireland falling under the authority of the English crown, and finally with the union of the English and Scottish crowns under James I (James VI of Scotland).

Through civil war, constitutional and religious reforms and the days of the Empire, these pages chart the course of the British Crown.

The Anglo-Saxon Kings

The Normans

The Angevins

The Plantagenets

The Lancastrians

The Yorkists

The Tudors

The Stuarts

The Hanoverians

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

The Windsors

 
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