"Who is your favorite Monarch?" Topic

I have two.

James IV of Scotland. (Such greatness wasted)
Charles XII of Sweden (A Good Lutheran Boy!)

Arthur, David, Solomon, Josiah, Hezekiah, and the Candace of Ethiopia (Amanirenas)— because she stood up to Augustus and forced him to negotiate favorable terms— and Charlemagne (for advocating education and literacy).

After that, any monarchs who willingly yielded power to the people over themselves.

Robert Bruce, James IV (Scotland)
Alfred the Great, Charles II, Victoria (England/GB/UK)
Charlemagne, Nappy I (la France)
Marcus Aurelius, Julian (SPQR!)
Leonidas I (Sparta)
"King Arthur" (?)

King Log. Always King Log--never, ever King Stork. See 1 Saumel 8:10-18.

There is something to be said for Prince Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein.

He had a country with no army at all, yet he apparently told Adolf Hitler to go himself when Hitler wanted Liechtenstein to join the Reich.

Grelber

O-o-o-o-Kay. I hadn't realized typing an "f" and three asterisks would activate the Bleepomatic!

Grelber

King Arthur, Gustavus Adolphus, Elizabeth II of Great Britain.

Lots of respect for Queen Elizabeth II (United Kingdom and other Commonwealth Realms).

Also Christian X (Denmark and Iceland) for also standing up to Hitler and providing financial help to get Jews to unoccupied Sweden. (The wearing a yellow star bit is a legend, but justly earned.)

Boudicca (Iceni)

Richard I & Edward I.

Well as a stated Royalist ( at least while at a game board)
Alexander I, he was really the pinnacle of the Russian Czars

Was a shame Queen Louise didn't live through the Napoleonic wars as she might have helped Frederick III, who also had a good reign.