List of British monarchs

For legendary sovereigns, see List of legendary kings of Britain. For ancient monarchs, see King of the Britons. For medieval sovereigns, see List of English monarchs and List of Scottish monarchs. For the current British king, see Charles III.
United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland
Royal Arms
Royal coat of arms (common version on the left; Scottish version on the right)[a]

There have been 13 British monarchs since the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707. England and Scotland had been in personal union since 24 March 1603; while the style, "King of Great Britain" first arose at that time, legislatively the title came into force in 1707.

On 1 January 1801, the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland merged, creating first the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and later the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland upon the secession of southern Ireland in the 1920s.

  1. ^ "Coats of arms". royal.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 4 March 2009. Retrieved 9 May 2011.


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