1483 Edward is declared illegitimate and deposed in favour of his uncle Richard Duke of Gloucester. 1483 Edward and his younger brother Richard of York are imprisoned in the Tower of London. After a ...

King of England 924–39. The son of Edward the Elder, Athelstan brought about English unity by ruling both Mercia and Wessex. He defeated an invasion by Scots, Irish, and the men of Strathclyde at ...

James II was just 6 years old when he succeeded to the throne following the murder of his father. He was nicknamed ‘Fiery Face’ after a large birthmark on his face. He was crowned at Holyrood Abbey ...

King of England from 1399, the son of John of Gaunt. In 1398 he was banished by Richard II but returned in 1399 to head a revolt and be accepted as king by Parliament. He was succeeded by his son ...

He was the son of the first elector of Hanover, Ernest Augustus (1629–1698), and his wife Sophia who was a granddaughter of James I of England. He was heir through his father to the hereditary lay ...

Mary was the eldest daughter of James II and his first wife Anne Hyde. Her mother died when she was 9 years old. Her father converted to Catholicism and remarried, but Mary and her sister Anne were ...

Sophia was a granddaughter of James I of England (James VI of Scotland) through her mother Elizabeth Stuart daughter of James. She was born in The Hague but moved to Heidelberg, Germany, where she ...

William was born in The Hague in the Netherlands. He was an only child and never knew his father William II who died of smallpox before his birth. His mother was Mary eldest daughter of Charles I of ...

George II was born in Hanover the son of George I and Sophia of Celle. He married Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach in 1705 an attractive and intelligent woman, and they had 9 children. In 1708 he took ...

Jane Seymour was the 3rd wife of Henry VIII, and was born in 1508/1509. She was not well educated and could only read and write her name, but she learnt needlework and household management, She became ...