The Greatest Monarch of England

[Mardla]

Who do you think was the greatest English monarch? And why?

My nomination goes to Queen Elizabeth I. She presided over England's cultural zenith. She passed the 1563 Act For the Relief of the Poor. She formally abolished serfdom. She ordered all Moors be deported. And she was relatively tolerant of Catholics even though the Pope declared her illegitimate and ordered Catholics not to recognize her authority.

[Senegalboy]

Do post 1707 act of union monarchs count?

[Mardla]

Do post 1707 act of union monarchs count?

The UK includes England.

[Kavagrad]

Charles I. His reign went as all monarchs' should.

[United Massachusetts]

whispers

James II


(jk)

[Caracasus]

Charles I. His reign went as all monarchs' should.

Yeah, started out alright but really lost his head towards the end there.

[Kannap]

Queen Elizabeth II for my sheer lack of knowledge of most of England's monarchs.

[Senegalboy]

Do post 1707 act of union monarchs count?

The UK includes England.

OK then
I would say Queen Victoria
Under her Reign the UK had reached the zenith of it's power making Britain not only the world's dominant superpower but also the world's workshop. Victorian Britain became the world leader in industry and manufacturing and the British spirit for entrepreneurship and invention was unrivalled.Britain also stayed out of European wars.

[Mardla]

The UK includes England.

OK then
I would say Queen Victoria
Under her Reign the UK had reached the zenith of it's power making Britain not only the world's dominant superpower but also the world's workshop. Victorian Britain became the world leader in industry and manufacturing and the British spirit for entrepreneurship and invention was unrivalled.Britain also stayed out of European wars.

Well at that point, PM was really functioning as executive more than the monarch.

[Genivaria]

Queen Elizabeth I or Queen Victoria Empress of India.

[United Massachusetts]

Queen Elizabeth II for my sheer lack of knowledge of most of England's monarchs.

The UK includes England.

OK then
I would say Queen Victoria
Under her Reign the UK had reached the zenith of it's power making Britain not only the world's dominant superpower but also the world's workshop. Victorian Britain became the world leader in industry and manufacturing and the British spirit for entrepreneurship and invention was unrivalled.Britain also stayed out of European wars.

Nah, guys. Every monarch after James II was illegitimate. (Note: I'm merely kidding/playing devil's advocate)

[Fartsniffage]

I would go with Cnut, or Alfred if he would be acceptable.

[Mardla]

Queen Elizabeth II for my sheer lack of knowledge of most of England's monarchs.

OK then
I would say Queen Victoria
Under her Reign the UK had reached the zenith of it's power making Britain not only the world's dominant superpower but also the world's workshop. Victorian Britain became the world leader in industry and manufacturing and the British spirit for entrepreneurship and invention was unrivalled.Britain also stayed out of European wars.

Nah, guys. Every monarch after James II was illegitimate. (Note: I'm merely kidding/playing devil's advocate)

I think you mean after Harold II.

[Earthbound Immortal Squad]

Charles II obviously he seemed more cheerful than most

[Mardla]

I would go with Cnut, or Alfred if he would be acceptable.

I considered Alfred for my baptismal name. I know a couple who baptized their kid Edwin.

[Hammer Britannia]

Me!

[Senegalboy]

OK then
I would say Queen Victoria
Under her Reign the UK had reached the zenith of it's power making Britain not only the world's dominant superpower but also the world's workshop. Victorian Britain became the world leader in industry and manufacturing and the British spirit for entrepreneurship and invention was unrivalled.Britain also stayed out of European wars.

Well at that point, PM was really functioning as executive more than the monarch.

But the Queen was supportive of the technological changes and in terms of European wars she advised her ministers not to intervene in 1864 war in Schleswig Holstein and her letter to Wilhelm I did help in preventing a second Franco-German war in 1875.

[Mardla]

Me!

Heathens can't

[Erythrean Thebes]

Doubtless Henry I. If you're a blind nationalist, include Henry II. If you're a troll-level xenophobe, include Henry III. Optional to include Richard I, if you have any tendency to romanticism. If you're an obnoxious heretic, you'll include John because he destroyed absolutism, and exterminated the virus of William, the Conqueror. Then most obligingly you'll add on Henry VIII, because you grudgingly recognize the value of pure domination as worth its own weight in gold when it comes to kings. Then if you're writing a doctoral dissertation, you'll tack on Henry VII too because he's underrated but, without him, none of the mahogany furniture days would have come into existence. And, that will do it for you, unless you're some kind of destructive intellectual anarchist who thinks the 'monarchs of England' continue after the laughable Norman crapout we commonly call 'the Hundred Years' war.

[Toaslandia]

William the Conqueror. He made the English culture we know today.

[Hammer Britannia]

Me!

Heathens can't

Try me

[Senegalboy]

William the Conqueror. He made the English culture we know today.

He couldn't even speak English.

[Heloin]

Æthelred the Unready.

[The New California Republic]

Always the current one as far as my family is concerned, since we have sworn oaths to them for over a thousand years, according to my research into my family tree with its various military and noble roots.

[Toaslandia]

William the Conqueror. He made the English culture we know today.

He couldn't even speak English.

He spoke French, but the French and Anglo-Saxon languages mixed together to make the English language.