The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, in which the monarch shares power with a constitutionally organized government. All political power rests with the prime minister (the head of government) and the cabinet, and the monarch must act on their advice. As the monarchy is constitutional, the monarch is limited to functions such as bestowing honours and appointing the prime minister, which are performed in a non-partisan manner.
The reigning king or queen is the country’s head of state and Head of the British Armed Forces. Though the ultimate executive authority over the government is still formally by and through the royal prerogative, these powers may only be used according to laws enacted in Parliament and, in practice, within the constraints of convention and precedent. The Government of the United Kingdom is known as His (Her) Majesty’s Government.
Here are all the sovereigns of Britain in chronological order.
Kings of Wessex (West Saxons)
No. | Monarch | House/Dynasty | Reign |
1. | Egbert | Saxon | 802-839 |
2. | Aethelwulf (Ethelwulf) | Saxon | 839-856/858 |
3. | Aethelbald (Ethelbald) | Saxon | 855/856-860 |
4. | Aethelberht (Ethelbert) | Saxon | 860-865/866 |
5. | Aethelred I (Ethelred) | Saxon | 865/866-871 |
6. | Alfred the Great | Saxon | 871-899 |
7. | Edward the Elder | Saxon | 899-924 |
Sovereigns of England
No. | Monarch | House/Dynasty | Reign |
8. | Athelstan1 | Saxon | 925-939 |
9. | Edmund I | Saxon | 939-946 |
10. | Eadred (Edred) | Saxon | 946-955 |
11. | Eadwig (Edwy) | Saxon | 955-959 |
12. | Edgar | Saxon | 959-975 |
13. | Edward the Martyr | Saxon | 975-978 |
14. | Ethelred II the Unready (Aethelred) | Saxon | 978-1013 |
15. | Sweyn Forkbeard | Danish | 1013-1014 |
16. | Ethelred II the Unready (restored) | Saxon | 1014-1016 |
17. | Edmund II Ironside | Saxon | 1016-1016 |
18. | Canute | Danish | 1016-1035 |
19. | Harold I Harefoot | Danish | 1035-1040 |
20. | Hardecanute | Danish | 1040-1042 |
21. | Edward the Confessor | Saxon | 1042-1066 |
22. | Harold II | Saxon | 1066-1066 |
23. | William I the Conqueror | Norman | 1066-1087 |
24. | William II | Norman | 1087-1100 |
25. | Henry I | Norman | 1100-1135 |
26. | Stephen | Blois | 1135-1154 |
27. | Henry II | Plantagenet | 1154-1189 |
28. | Richard I | Plantagenet | 1189-1199 |
30. | John | Plantagenet | 1199-1216 |
31. | Henry III | Plantagenet | 1216-1272 |
32. | Edward I | Plantagenet | 1272-1307 |
33. | Edward II | Plantagenet | 1307-1327 |
34. | Edward III | Plantagenet | 1327-1377 |
35. | Richard II | Plantagenet | 1377-1399 |
36. | Henry IV | Plantagenet: Lancaster | 1399-1413 |
37. | Henry V | Plantagenet: Lancaster | 1413-1422 |
38. | Henry VI | Plantagenet: Lancaster | 1422-1461 |
39. | Edward IV | Plantagenet: York | 1461-1470 |
40. | Henry VI (restored) | Plantagenet: Lancaster | 1470-1471 |
41. | Edward IV (restored) | Plantagenet: York | 1471-1483 |
42. | Edward V | Plantagenet: York | 1483-1483 |
43. | Richard III | Plantagenet: York | 1483-1485 |
44. | Henry VII | Tudor | 1483-1509 |
45. | Henry VIII | Tudor | 1509-1547 |
46. | Edward VI | Tudor | 1547-1553 |
47. | Mary I | Tudor | 1553-1558 |
48. | Elizabeth I | Tudor | 1558-1603 |
Sovereigns of Great Britain and the United Kingdom
No. | Monarch | House/Dynasty | Reign |
49. | James I (VI of Scotland)2 | Stuart | 1603-1625 |
50. | Charles I | Stuart | 1625-1649 |
| Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector3 (Republican Commonwealth) | 1653-1658 | |
| Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector3 (Republican Commonwealth) | 1658-1659 | |
51. | Charles II | Stuart | 1660-1685 |
52. | James II | Stuart | 1685-1688 |
53. | William III and Mary II4 | Orange/Stuart | 1689-1702 |
54. | Anne | Stuart | 1702-1714 |
55. | George I | Hanover | 1714-1727 |
56. | George II | Hanover | 1727-1760 |
57. | George III5 | Hanover | 1760-1820 |
58. | George IV6 | Hanover | 1820-1830 |
59. | William IV | Hanover | 1830-1837 |
60. | Victoria | Hanover | 1837-1901 |
61. | Edward VII | Saxe-Coburg-Gotha | 1901-1910 |
62. | George V7 | Windsor | 1910-1936 |
63. | Edward VIII8 | Windsor | 1936-1936 |
64. | George VI | Windsor | 1936-1952 |
65. | Elizabeth II | Windsor | 1952-2022 |
66. | Charles III | Windsor | 2022- |
Notes:
- 1Athelstan was king of Wessex and the first king of all England
- 2James VI of Scotland became also James I of England in 1603. Upon accession to the English throne, he styled himself “King of Great Britain” and was so proclaimed. Legally, however, he and his successors held separate English and Scottish kingships until the Act of Union of 1707, when the two kingdoms were united as the Kingdom of Great Britain
- 3Oliver and Richard Cromwell served as Lords Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland during the Republican Commonwealth
- 4William and Mary, as husband and wife, reigned jointly until Mary’s death in 1694. William then reigned alone until his own death in 1702
- 5The United Kingdom was formed on January 1, 1801, with the union of Great Britain and Ireland. After 1801 George III was styled “King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland”
- 6George IV was regent from February 5, 1811
- 7In 1917, during World War I, George V changed the name of his house from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor
- 8Edward VIII succeeded upon the death of his father, George V, on January 20, 1936, but abdicated on December 11, 1936, before coronation
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