Painting of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castille

Kings and queens

King James was king of Scotland (as James VI) from 1567 to 1625 and the first Stuart king of England, from 1603 to 1625, acceding to the throne upon the death of Elizabeth I. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Anglo-Saxon

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Portrait of King George III (Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images)

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General History

QuizCan you put these monarchs in the correct order?

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Author Jane Austen and the Prince Regent

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King George III

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A portrait and a cartoon of George III

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The future Queen Victoria, aged four

Victorian

Queen Victoria's unhappy childhood: life under the 'Kensington System'

Elizabeth Debicki as Diana, Princess of Wales in 'The Crown' (left) and Princess Diana touring an

20th Century

The Crown S6: the real history in the royal drama

Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown, and the real Queen Elizabeth II

20th Century

Netflix’s The Crown: the real history behind the royal drama

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Prince William and his wife, Kate Middleton Buckingham Palace, following their wedding at Westminster Abbey, 29 April 2011. (Photo by George Pimentel/WireImage)

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Edward V and Richard, Duke of York, in the Tower of London as imagined in Paul Delaroche’s 1852 painting.

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David Mitchell. (Photo by PAL HANSEN-GUARDIAN-EYEVINE)

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William of Orange depicted landing in Devon

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A painting of Queen Anne Boleyn, with her hair held up, and a B pendant on one of her necklaces.

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Portrait of Elizabeth Linley

Georgian

8 scandals that shocked Georgian Britain

An illustration of King Arthur's coronation, from the 13th-century Flores Historiarum

Medieval

Was King Arthur real? Discover the legend of the 'once and future king'

King Arthur and his knights return to Camelot (Photo by: Christophel Fine Art/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Mordred duels King Arthur with swords as they stand over the bodies of fallen men

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The head and upper body of a monumental statue of Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, which has been exhibited at the British Museum, London, since the 19th century (Photo by World History Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

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A 1930s depiction of a Norman hunt. The invasion of William the Conqueror in 1066 marked the beginning of England’s Royal Forest (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

Plantagenet

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An illustration of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, fleeing from battle after attempting to unseat his Catholic uncle, King James II and VII, from the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland (Photo by De Luan/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Henry III of England.

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