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The throne of England often did not pass smoothly from parent to child. Lack of heirs, civil wars, murders and invasions affected the inheritance in ways that a simple list of kings does not show.

In 1603 the [Union of the Crowns]? took place, combining the royal lines of England and Scotland. King James VI of Scotland became James I of England. Since then, a single monarchy has ruled the United Kingdom

The first half of the page should be under England/Relationships? if anywhere: and certainly a good 25% of the list weren't ruler of an England even remotely as we now conceive of it. Besides which it's a) a sub-page and b) an unrevealing page name: I was expecting to see a breakdown of diplomatic standings with other countries... sjc

Wouldn't this page be better called [British Royal Family]?, or something similar? -- SJK

There's a page called The Dutch monarchy. We should probably be consistant and call this [The English Monarchy]?. And flesh it out. --corvus13

[English Monarchy]? would be good for a part of this list, but it should stop with [William III]? and point to another page called [UK Monarchy]?. Scotland could probably do the same trick -- independent page until 1701, then point to [UK Monarchy]?. The list of names on both would start overlapping with James VI/James I, of course.


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