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Carlos, rey emperador (transl. 'Charles, Emperor King') is a Spanish historical fiction television series based upon the reign of Charles V (Carlos I to the Spanish), [1] directed by Oriol Ferrer and produced by Diagonal TV for Televisión Española.
The promotion for the documentary caused a controversy in 2007 when the BBC showed a group of journalists a trailer of the series including some shots that were edited in non-chronological order making it erroneously appear that Queen Elizabeth II had stormed out of a photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz after being asked to remove her 'crown'. [2]
Monarchy is a Channel 4 British TV series by British academic David Starkey charting the political and ideological history of the English monarchy from Anglo-Saxon England to modern history. The show also aired on PBS stations throughout the United States, courtesy of PBS-member station WNET .
A later book, the 1961 Angélique se révolte ("Angélique in Revolt"), details the dire consequences of her defying this powerful monarch. A character based on Louis plays an important role in The Age of Unreason, a series of four alternate history novels written by American science fiction and fantasy author Gregory Keyes.
In 1585, Catholic Spain, ruled by King Philip II, is the most powerful country in Europe.Seeing that the Catholic plots against Queen Elizabeth's life that occurred from the 1570s onwards had all failed, Pope Sixtus V approached King Philip, who had amassed the most significant naval force in all of Europe and convinced the king to use this naval force to invade and re-Catholicize England.
Prince Elias Acorn becomes the new king of the Kingdom of Acorn after his father's abdication due to his poor health. As with his sister Sally Acorn being a co-leader of the small band of Freedom Fighters alongside Sonic, [2] Elias reigns for a brief time until his kingdom is claimed by the royal wizard, Walter Naugus.
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The following are the 25 longest-reigning monarchs of states who were internationally recognised as sovereign for most or all of their reign. Byzantine emperors Constantine VIII and Basil II, reigning for 66 years in total (962–1028) and for 65 years in total (960–1025) respectively, are not included, because for part of those periods they reigned only nominally as junior co-emperors ...