"Favourite British monarch" Topic

The shining light amongst an often lack lustre crowd is Elizabeth 1.
With her sometimes awful family, the glare of publicity & a world that increasingly thinks monarchy is a useless anachronism, she soldierson.
Here's to Lizthe First!

Your choice?

Good Queen Victoria, of course; she wisely shut the hell up and avoided politics, thereby allowing herself to become the revered symbol of Empire. She became a logo for an entire era of European and world history, culture, architecture, and thought. Granted, she was as distant from her public as any Chinese Empress could have been, especially towards the end, but that's what the people by and large expected of her. She symbolised an ideal.

Macbeth a good and just King.

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Have to agree on Victoria, Queen and Empress.

Henry II. He set down a lot of what ended up becoming British law and created a good bit of the legal system.

King John the most original of the lot..

Macbeth a good and just King.

British? He wasn't even king of Scotland but of Alba.

British? He wasn't even king of Scotland but of Alba.

Still British though as he was born in the British isles.

Arthur

However I suspect the original poster might have meant Elizabeth II

King Crimson.

Liz Ten.

"I'm the bloody Queen, mate."

Aye, Macbeth counts. Topic says British monarch, doesn't say anything about them having to be monarch of all Britain.

Oh yes Arthur.

Arthur , the greatest British monarch of them all.

I would say Victoria , but she was German ( Saxe-Coburg Gotha ).

Edward IV

I'm pretty certain that Elizabeth I won the best briton contest run on the box a few years ago. she beat Churchill etc.

The OP asked for your favourite, not the best or the greatest.

Kensington Palace is in England rather than Germany as far as I can remember. Though I may be wrong, as I'm not a Londoner and don't go there very often.

charles the first – we chopped his head off.

My favourite will be the last one, whoever is the end of the line and signs the law that consigns the monarchy to history.

Viva la United Republic of GB and NI!

Richard III. He lets the audience know what's going on.

Henry V!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

However I suspect the original poster might have meant Elizabeth II

I think Eliz 2 is what you folk down south call Eliz 1 of Scotland.

Well what can you expect from someone from the backward north whose Kings of England record runs thus:

Left Scotland so fast his own court didn't see him go.
Beheaded
Liked the French
Deposed

With a record like that, no wonder all the other British Monarchs look good.

I'd go with "king of all Britain", Athelstan. Even better than his grandad Alfred.

Victoria. Best king we ever had.

I'm pretty certain that Elizabeth I won the best briton contest run on the box a few years ago. she beat Churchill etc.

Not even close.

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Charles II for successfully restoring the Monarchy after the horror of the Commonwealth. So much for republicanism.

On principle none really, I suppose for sentimental reasons than I am okay with King Urien ap Rheged or his sprog Owain.

Robert the Bruce.

Arthur, Dux Bellorum.

Edmund Blackadder and his dogsbody, Baldrick who always had a cunning plan.

With a record like that, no wonder all the other British Monarchs look good.

Sorry, Fred. I wrote "often lack lustre crowd" in the OP & I was referring to the hordes of useless Georges & poor Edwards you southerners stuck onto us.
If we had of known we'd be getting shop-soiled merchandise, we'd have never consented to the ' Union.

Must be Hywel Dda or Good Queen Bess,

A few monarchs are named 'the Great' but to be named 'the Good' is pretty rare, Good King Wenceslas doesn't count as not a Brit.

Hywel's laws made cat-murder illegal, and specified the fine to be a pile of grain poured feely on the ground that is as high as the length of the cat from its nose to the tip of its tail.

Her Majesty, God Bless Her, Queen Victoria.

Also partial to George V. And George III, as he was a nutter. Course, Henry VIII was a ladies' man. And Henry V made such good speeches. And Owain Glyndwr (yeah, a prince, but still a monarch).

Least favorite: Charles I and James I. Blockheads.

I always hoped, if I were ever a monarch, to be remembered as James the Fairly Competent, or James, the Not-Too-Shabby.

sorry ochoin I thought you meant the useless Stuarts that came from the North, easy mistake to make.

You want useless monarchs, the Richards are a good call, couple of Williams, some but not all Edwards, too many Henrys to count, half of the Marys, half of the Charlies, all the Jims, and lets not get started on Canute…

Half the Charlies? That's generous.
(I do think Jamie 1 was OK if totally odd).

Least favorite: Charles I and James I. Blockheads.

Certainly Charlie's head ended up on a block.

George III,as depicted in the BlackAdder series.

Second vote for Robert the Bruce.
Must keep the vote within the family.

Who else ?

Elizabeth I, but only if played by Miranda Richardson.

Who else ?

He was certainly an old queen, by all accounts…

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

Hmmmm another vote for Henry II.

He had made England a safer, cleaner and more just country by the time he left it, and sponsored many building initiatives to develop the infrastructure.

Compared to the rather messy and violent times that were the middle ages generally, his time was pretty good.

Apparently if you got tired lugging something home you could hang it on a tree and it would still be there for you when you got back the next day.

the one in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, non-pareil!

Alfred or possibly Aethelstan.

Henry the 8th