[POD: the Gun powder plot goes off as planned killing King James along with Prince Henry of Wales.]
King of England, Ireland and Scotland
1603 - 1605: James VI and I (House of Stuart)
1605 - 1662: Elizabeth I and II (House of Stuart) [1]
1662 - 1678: Charles I (House of Stuart) [2]
1678 - 1701: James VII and II (House of Stuart) [3]
1701 - 1712: Charles II (House of Stuart) [4]
1712 - 1719: Charles Robert I (House of Stuart) [5]
1719 - 1722: Mary II (House of Stuart) [6]
1722 - 1739: James VIII and III (House of Stuart) [7]
1739 - 1755: Charles Robert II (House of Tweed) [8]
1755 - 1756: James IX and IV (House of Tweed) [9]
1756 - 1759: Peter Robert I (House of Kent) [10]
1759 - 1789: James X and V (House of Kent) [11]
1789 - 1820: Eleanor (House of Kent) [12]
Emperors of Great Britain and Ireland
1820 - 1834: Eleanor (House of Kent) [12]
1834 - 1851: Mary III (House of Kent) [13]
1851 - 1892: Charles III (House of de Sotomayor) [14]
1892 - 1921: Patricia (House of de Sotomayor) [15]
1921 - 1932: John William I (House of Walshingham) [16]
1932 - 1942: Godwin II (House of Wessex)[17]
[1] After the assassination of King James VI and his eldest son, the conspirators kidnapped, 9 year old, Elizabeth from Coombe Abbey, and place her on the throne of England, Ireland and Scotland as a Catholic monarch.
Her brother, Prince Charles was seen as too feeble (having only just learnt to walk) and Mary too young, while Elizabeth on the other hand had already attended formal functions, and knew how to fulfill a ceremonial role despite her comparative youth. In 1614, she was married to the Archduke Maximilian (who was Catholic), with whom she had 13 children.
During her 57 year reign, the country never fully went back to Catholicism, like under Queen Mary I, but as Catholics remained the great majority of the population, there had been a much larger degree of toleration between the two religions. She died in 1663, handing the throne over to her son, Prince Ferdinand of Wales.
[2] Charles ascended the throne after his mother's death. He wasn't the most pious of Catholic kings and was frequently known to dabble and have affairs with multiple women as well as having fathered many bastards. As a king he was an able administrator and reined in the rebellious British parliament which had stirred much trouble for the King James and had opposed him quite a bit as well. To the Protestants of the nation he was known as a mediator that stopped many minor and local inquisitions by the Archbishop of York, a zealous Spaniard who had been given the title. He died in May 1678 during a suspicious hunting accident.
[3] James, Charles eldest true-born son, was rumored to have had a hand in his father's death. These hearsays plagued his reign from beginning to end. A religious Catholic, James often went on pilgrimages to Rome. He married the French princess Josephine of Orléans, thus cementing a strong Franco-British alliance. Upon his death in 1701 he was passed the throne unto his nephew, Charles II
[4] Charles II, nephew of James ruled only for 11 years and nothing of note happened during his reign. He was succeeded by his brother Robert.
[5] Robert Charles I, brother of Charles II, ruled for 7 years. The only thing of difference between him and his brother, as the old joke stated, lay in the changing of the coins and the monarch's obsession with exotic plants. He sponsored several trips to the East Indies but never found the finances to do so. He appointed his daughter Mary as heir and died of natural causes.
[6] Mary, daughter of Charles Robert I, had a short and tumultous reign. During her rule the country saw the Highland Rebellion where the Protestant Highlands of Scotland revolted against Catholic rule. Mary put down the rebellion but was forced to abdicate by parliament as she was used as a scapegoat for the insurrection. She was succeeded by her cousin James
[7] James VIII and III was the cousin of Mary and descended from Charles I. He was a strange King but he was also kind and generous. However in the early years of the 1730s he began to slip into madness, claiming to see the mythical witch Morgana Le Fay everywhere he went. Finally after his madness nearly bankrupted the kingdom from 1734 to 1738, he was forced off the throne in 1739 by his eldest son Charles Robert II. James VIII and III would live on in seclusion and madness for the next thirteen years, finally succumbing to his madness in 1752.
[8] Charles Robert II, born Charles James Stuart, grew up in the household of Lord Tweed, whom he considered a greater father figure than mad James VIII ever was. A reckless young man with a quick temper, Charles Robert never held much love for his father who was hardly there in his childhood. Upon deposing the old king, Charles Robert took the name of Tweed in recognition of Lord Tweed who reared him. He ruled for sixteen years before he died of food poisoning. Some suspect his French wife Isabella of Provence having a hand in his murder so their young son James could take the throne with her as queen regent.
[9] James IX was always in a weak position as his mother, Isabella of Provence was hated by the English and Scottish people. He was never able to govern in his own right and was murdered in his bed in Westminster Palace. His mother was also murdered on the same day. It is believed that the murders were ordered by the Duke of Kent in order to install his son, Peter, as King.
[10] Half jokingly referred to as "The Duke's King", Peter Robert I ruled as his father commanded him to do, and continued a woeful trend in English/Scottish monarchs to be wholly dependent on a cadre of leading noble families. The only thing good about King Peter Robert I lay in the nascent developments of (limited) democracy (for those with money) in the realm. He died as he lived with his appointment of his nephew James being "approved" by his father's allies.
[11] James X and V would prove to be a greater monarch than his uncle as he refused to kowtow to the nobles and had a greater grasp on the throne. The first monarch to rule for more than twenty years since James VII and II, James X would rule for thirty years and crush all forms of rebellion including a civil war which lasted from 1763 to 1767. All conspirators of the war were quickly executed and James would rule through an watchful peace until his death in 1789. Noted however, was the absolute hatred with which James X regarded democracy as he believed that the absolute power in a nation should rest with the monarchy. He went as far as the make a law that would come in time to be known as the Law of King James, which states all decision regarding the nations of England and Scotland would rest only with the King or Queen. He then added that only a male descendant of himself, James X could repeal the law. James believed that this would end all talks of democracy within his country as he had no sons, only three daughters, the eldest of which would inherit his throne as Eleanor.
[12] Upon ascending the throne Eleanor simply declared her father to have been mentally unsound and under the influence of evil advisors and had the 'Law of King James' declared null and void. Her reign became known as 'the Peaceful Era' in which the British Isles themselves was untroubled by the violence and radical movements consuming Europe at that time, though several colonial wars were waged in Africa and Asia to increase the wealth of the dual kingdoms. Eleanor began a process to unify the Kingdoms of England and Scotland into a single political unit that was completed in 1820, the Empire of Great Britain and Ireland was born with Eleanor as it's first Emperor. When she died in 1834, Eleanor left the throne to her sister, Mary.
[13] Mary was the younger sister of Eleanor. Never groomed for the throne, her announcement as Eleanor's heir was quite the shock. Mary had little interest in affairs of the state and much of the ruling was done by her husband, King Philip VI of Spain. For this she was known as the 'Spanish Queen', little-loved by the people of the British Isles who felt they were ruled by a foreigner. Upon her death her son, Charles de Sotomayor, ascended the throne.
[14] Second son of Mary III and Philip VI of Spain, Charles was born in 1836 and was crowned as Prince of Wales a year later.
He was picked over his older brother, Philip, who became King Philip VII at their father's death in 1848.
King Henry V of France, was angered at the close alliance between his two close neighbours, forming a Grand Alliance of France, Russia, Austria, United Kingdoms of Denmark and Holy Papal Empire of Rome, which in 1859, declared war against Spain and British Isles.
The Grand Alliance was beaten in 1873, after a series of major conflicts, which saw the mighty navy of Britain and field military strengh of Spain take most of Western Europe under a united occupation.
When King Charles III, died in 1892, he left his kingdom to Patricia, his only child, from his Irish wife, Queen Patricia.
[15] Patricia was her mother's namesake and took the throne a mere week after turning 18. Young and naïve she quickly became dependent upon her advisors, most notably John Walshingham who became Lord Privy Seal and later her husband. It was during her reign that Parliament began reassuming it's lost powers, creating a balance between the Crown and the growing power of the middle class and their elected representatives. While the Queen had three children, she was quite taken with smoking (which had been quite fashionable) and died of (then hardly heard of illness) lung cancer in her early forties, leaving the throne to her son, John William.
[16] The first British Emperor to take a double name, and the only one named John William to date. Abdicated in 1932 after his father was caught up in a banking scandal involving several institutions in the Commonwealth of Virginia, triggering a crisis in that nation. As he himself had no heirs, the throne passed to William Peters, distant familial relative, and holder of the Earldom of Wessex
[17] William Peters assumed the regal name of Godwin II, due to his erroneous assumption that the previous holder of the Earldom of Wessex had been King of England, and ruled with a fair hand. Emperor Godwin instigated a series of democratic reforms. In his brief reign he appointed his ____ ____ as his heir. Many of his kind acts coined the common phrase 'Goodwin's Laws'. It is regrettable that the European and North American politics took to war and Emperor Godwin is known to have given many speeches about peace. He died of a sudden heart attack while trying to attain an elusive peace on the Continent.
King of England, Ireland and Scotland
1603 - 1605: James VI and I (House of Stuart)
1605 - 1662: Elizabeth I and II (House of Stuart) [1]
1662 - 1678: Charles I (House of Stuart) [2]
1678 - 1701: James VII and II (House of Stuart) [3]
1701 - 1712: Charles II (House of Stuart) [4]
1712 - 1719: Charles Robert I (House of Stuart) [5]
1719 - 1722: Mary II (House of Stuart) [6]
1722 - 1739: James VIII and III (House of Stuart) [7]
1739 - 1755: Charles Robert II (House of Tweed) [8]
1755 - 1756: James IX and IV (House of Tweed) [9]
1756 - 1759: Peter Robert I (House of Kent) [10]
1759 - 1789: James X and V (House of Kent) [11]
1789 - 1820: Eleanor (House of Kent) [12]
Emperors of Great Britain and Ireland
1820 - 1834: Eleanor (House of Kent) [12]
1834 - 1851: Mary III (House of Kent) [13]
1851 - 1892: Charles III (House of de Sotomayor) [14]
1892 - 1921: Patricia (House of de Sotomayor) [15]
1921 - 1932: John William I (House of Walshingham) [16]
1932 - 1942: Godwin II (House of Wessex)[17]
[1] After the assassination of King James VI and his eldest son, the conspirators kidnapped, 9 year old, Elizabeth from Coombe Abbey, and place her on the throne of England, Ireland and Scotland as a Catholic monarch.
Her brother, Prince Charles was seen as too feeble (having only just learnt to walk) and Mary too young, while Elizabeth on the other hand had already attended formal functions, and knew how to fulfill a ceremonial role despite her comparative youth. In 1614, she was married to the Archduke Maximilian (who was Catholic), with whom she had 13 children.
During her 57 year reign, the country never fully went back to Catholicism, like under Queen Mary I, but as Catholics remained the great majority of the population, there had been a much larger degree of toleration between the two religions. She died in 1663, handing the throne over to her son, Prince Ferdinand of Wales.
[2] Charles ascended the throne after his mother's death. He wasn't the most pious of Catholic kings and was frequently known to dabble and have affairs with multiple women as well as having fathered many bastards. As a king he was an able administrator and reined in the rebellious British parliament which had stirred much trouble for the King James and had opposed him quite a bit as well. To the Protestants of the nation he was known as a mediator that stopped many minor and local inquisitions by the Archbishop of York, a zealous Spaniard who had been given the title. He died in May 1678 during a suspicious hunting accident.
[3] James, Charles eldest true-born son, was rumored to have had a hand in his father's death. These hearsays plagued his reign from beginning to end. A religious Catholic, James often went on pilgrimages to Rome. He married the French princess Josephine of Orléans, thus cementing a strong Franco-British alliance. Upon his death in 1701 he was passed the throne unto his nephew, Charles II
[4] Charles II, nephew of James ruled only for 11 years and nothing of note happened during his reign. He was succeeded by his brother Robert.
[5] Robert Charles I, brother of Charles II, ruled for 7 years. The only thing of difference between him and his brother, as the old joke stated, lay in the changing of the coins and the monarch's obsession with exotic plants. He sponsored several trips to the East Indies but never found the finances to do so. He appointed his daughter Mary as heir and died of natural causes.
[6] Mary, daughter of Charles Robert I, had a short and tumultous reign. During her rule the country saw the Highland Rebellion where the Protestant Highlands of Scotland revolted against Catholic rule. Mary put down the rebellion but was forced to abdicate by parliament as she was used as a scapegoat for the insurrection. She was succeeded by her cousin James
[7] James VIII and III was the cousin of Mary and descended from Charles I. He was a strange King but he was also kind and generous. However in the early years of the 1730s he began to slip into madness, claiming to see the mythical witch Morgana Le Fay everywhere he went. Finally after his madness nearly bankrupted the kingdom from 1734 to 1738, he was forced off the throne in 1739 by his eldest son Charles Robert II. James VIII and III would live on in seclusion and madness for the next thirteen years, finally succumbing to his madness in 1752.
[8] Charles Robert II, born Charles James Stuart, grew up in the household of Lord Tweed, whom he considered a greater father figure than mad James VIII ever was. A reckless young man with a quick temper, Charles Robert never held much love for his father who was hardly there in his childhood. Upon deposing the old king, Charles Robert took the name of Tweed in recognition of Lord Tweed who reared him. He ruled for sixteen years before he died of food poisoning. Some suspect his French wife Isabella of Provence having a hand in his murder so their young son James could take the throne with her as queen regent.
[9] James IX was always in a weak position as his mother, Isabella of Provence was hated by the English and Scottish people. He was never able to govern in his own right and was murdered in his bed in Westminster Palace. His mother was also murdered on the same day. It is believed that the murders were ordered by the Duke of Kent in order to install his son, Peter, as King.
[10] Half jokingly referred to as "The Duke's King", Peter Robert I ruled as his father commanded him to do, and continued a woeful trend in English/Scottish monarchs to be wholly dependent on a cadre of leading noble families. The only thing good about King Peter Robert I lay in the nascent developments of (limited) democracy (for those with money) in the realm. He died as he lived with his appointment of his nephew James being "approved" by his father's allies.
[11] James X and V would prove to be a greater monarch than his uncle as he refused to kowtow to the nobles and had a greater grasp on the throne. The first monarch to rule for more than twenty years since James VII and II, James X would rule for thirty years and crush all forms of rebellion including a civil war which lasted from 1763 to 1767. All conspirators of the war were quickly executed and James would rule through an watchful peace until his death in 1789. Noted however, was the absolute hatred with which James X regarded democracy as he believed that the absolute power in a nation should rest with the monarchy. He went as far as the make a law that would come in time to be known as the Law of King James, which states all decision regarding the nations of England and Scotland would rest only with the King or Queen. He then added that only a male descendant of himself, James X could repeal the law. James believed that this would end all talks of democracy within his country as he had no sons, only three daughters, the eldest of which would inherit his throne as Eleanor.
[12] Upon ascending the throne Eleanor simply declared her father to have been mentally unsound and under the influence of evil advisors and had the 'Law of King James' declared null and void. Her reign became known as 'the Peaceful Era' in which the British Isles themselves was untroubled by the violence and radical movements consuming Europe at that time, though several colonial wars were waged in Africa and Asia to increase the wealth of the dual kingdoms. Eleanor began a process to unify the Kingdoms of England and Scotland into a single political unit that was completed in 1820, the Empire of Great Britain and Ireland was born with Eleanor as it's first Emperor. When she died in 1834, Eleanor left the throne to her sister, Mary.
[13] Mary was the younger sister of Eleanor. Never groomed for the throne, her announcement as Eleanor's heir was quite the shock. Mary had little interest in affairs of the state and much of the ruling was done by her husband, King Philip VI of Spain. For this she was known as the 'Spanish Queen', little-loved by the people of the British Isles who felt they were ruled by a foreigner. Upon her death her son, Charles de Sotomayor, ascended the throne.
[14] Second son of Mary III and Philip VI of Spain, Charles was born in 1836 and was crowned as Prince of Wales a year later.
He was picked over his older brother, Philip, who became King Philip VII at their father's death in 1848.
King Henry V of France, was angered at the close alliance between his two close neighbours, forming a Grand Alliance of France, Russia, Austria, United Kingdoms of Denmark and Holy Papal Empire of Rome, which in 1859, declared war against Spain and British Isles.
The Grand Alliance was beaten in 1873, after a series of major conflicts, which saw the mighty navy of Britain and field military strengh of Spain take most of Western Europe under a united occupation.
When King Charles III, died in 1892, he left his kingdom to Patricia, his only child, from his Irish wife, Queen Patricia.
[15] Patricia was her mother's namesake and took the throne a mere week after turning 18. Young and naïve she quickly became dependent upon her advisors, most notably John Walshingham who became Lord Privy Seal and later her husband. It was during her reign that Parliament began reassuming it's lost powers, creating a balance between the Crown and the growing power of the middle class and their elected representatives. While the Queen had three children, she was quite taken with smoking (which had been quite fashionable) and died of (then hardly heard of illness) lung cancer in her early forties, leaving the throne to her son, John William.
[16] The first British Emperor to take a double name, and the only one named John William to date. Abdicated in 1932 after his father was caught up in a banking scandal involving several institutions in the Commonwealth of Virginia, triggering a crisis in that nation. As he himself had no heirs, the throne passed to William Peters, distant familial relative, and holder of the Earldom of Wessex
[17] William Peters assumed the regal name of Godwin II, due to his erroneous assumption that the previous holder of the Earldom of Wessex had been King of England, and ruled with a fair hand. Emperor Godwin instigated a series of democratic reforms. In his brief reign he appointed his ____ ____ as his heir. Many of his kind acts coined the common phrase 'Goodwin's Laws'. It is regrettable that the European and North American politics took to war and Emperor Godwin is known to have given many speeches about peace. He died of a sudden heart attack while trying to attain an elusive peace on the Continent.