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  2. History of the English and British line of succession - Wikipedia

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    On the day of Edward VII's death, 6 May 1910, the line of succession to the British throne was: George, Prince of Wales (born 1865), only surviving son of Edward VII. Prince Edward of Wales (born 1894), eldest son of the Prince of Wales. Prince Albert of Wales (born 1895), second son of the Prince of Wales.

  3. Charles II of England - Wikipedia

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    Charles II of England. (more...) Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) [c] was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria of ...

  4. List of English monarchs - Wikipedia

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    No monarch reigned after the 1649 execution of Charles I. Between 1649 and 1653, there was no single English head of state , as England was ruled directly by the Rump Parliament with the English Council of State acting as executive power during a period known as the Commonwealth of England .

  5. James II of England - Wikipedia

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    James II and VII (14 October 1633 O.S. – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685, until he was deposed in the 1688 Glorious Revolution. The last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland, his reign is now ...

  6. Interregnum (England) - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Interregnum[1] was the period between the execution of Charles I on 30 January 1649 and the arrival of his son Charles II in London on 29 May 1660, which marked the start of the Restoration. During the Interregnum, England was under various forms of republican government.

  7. List of monarchs in Britain by length of reign - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch, reigned from 6 February 1952 until her death on 8 September 2022.. The following is a list, ordered by length of reign, of the monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1927–present), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922), the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1801), the Kingdom of England (871 ...

  8. Jacobite succession - Wikipedia

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    By Antonio Canova, 1819. The Jacobite succession is the line through which Jacobites believed that the crowns of England, Scotland, and Ireland should have descended, applying male preference primogeniture, since the deposition of James II and VII in 1688 and his death in 1701. It is in opposition to the legal line of succession to the British ...

  9. List of British monarchs - Wikipedia

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    Queen Anne became monarch of the Kingdom of Great Britain after the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707. She had ruled England, Scotland, and the Kingdom of Ireland since 8 March 1702. She continued as queen of Great Britain and Ireland until her death. Her total reign lasted 12 years and 147 days.