When was the last time we had an English King or Queen?

Question

Roosterm, I think you'll find it's you who doesn't know your history

Answer 1

I am assuming are asking this because of the amount of German blood that flows through the Royal Family ?

given that many marriages in the centuries gone by were more about creating alliances between nations .. I would actually have to check to answer you ( if that is what you are meaning ) ...

However .. Given that the current Queen was English born .. That's english enough for me ( though I respect your view point)

Answer 2

You would have to go back to before the Norman Conquest to find the answer to that so Harold II 1066 ad would be the answer.

After that it was a succesion of Frenchmen followed by the Tudors (Welsh) followed by the Stuarts (Scottish) followed by the Dutch (William III) followed by the Germans(George I to the present day.

The present queen is the product of George VI who was born into the royal house of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha (German) and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon who was Scottish.

The next monarch ,Charles is the product of the queen and her husband who is an immigrant from Greece with a family history from Germany.

Answer 3

Britain has a queen now...

Answer 4

Actually, I think you'll find that Harold was actually of Norse descent.

If you look closely enough you'll find that there has never been a reigning monarch of England who was actually English.

Before Harold you had Edward 1 and his predecessors who were, I believe, Saxons (i.e. German) and before that you go back into the Dark Ages where you had a great influx of Angles Saxons and Danes.

You can't even count King Arthur because, if he existed, he was Welsh.

And before that the country was run from Rome.

So there you go - the English have always been ruled by foreigners.  Excellent!!!!

Cymru Am Byth!!

Answer 5

I gues you will have to define "English" and "we".  The last purely English king was killed in the Battle of Hastings by William [the conquerer] Duke of Normandy who then took the title of King of England.  

The last monarch of "England" who was not a monarch of Scotland was Elizabeth I.

The last monarch of "England" before the countries of England and Scottland untied was Queen Anne.

The last British monarch to rule the American colonies (except Canada) was George III.

The last British Emperor of India was King George, father of our current sovereign, Elizabeth.

While the line of kings and queens starting with King George I were largely German, they were all descendants of the British Kings that came before them, the Stuart line and before them the Tudor line.  Prince Philip may have had Greek, Danish, and German titles, but he is also a descendant of the Stuarts, thru Queen Victoria.  As such, they are all British.

Answer 6

Britians Queen Elizabeth took the throne in 1952 and has reigned gloriously since then. Upon her death, Britian will crown King Charles III

Answer 7

I would have to say queen anne (1702-1714) house of stuart

after that came the succession of the current german houses

Answer 8

We do now ,little Lemur. Why do you want to appear stupid all the time?

Answer 9

Excuse me but roosterm is right,because of jus soli,HM Queen Elizabeth II is English although he is a descendant of Germans

Answer 10

How far do you want to go back? 1066?  Since that time, English kings and queens have been Norman French (Plantagenet and York), Welsh (Tudor), Scottish (Stuart), and German (Hanover and  Saxe-Coburg-Gotha).  

Discounting the fact that the Hanovers have lived in England since 1714 (a much longer time than most of us have genealogies for),  Elizabeth II is at least 1/4 Scottish and 1/4 English since the Queen Mother Elizabeth Bowes Lyon's dad, Lord Glamis, Claude George Bowes Lyon, was Scottish, and her Mother, Cecilia Nina Cavendish Bentinck, was English.  The Queen's English ancestors even include a Prime Minister, the very eccentric 5th Duke of Portland, William Cavendish Bentinck.

Answer 11

LOL- it's amazing how many things our language can mean. I thought you were asking "When was the last time we (Americans) had an English King or Queen?"

So I was going to answer 1781 when we won the Revolutionary War!

So what do you mean?

Answer 12

1066, wasn't it?

Answer 13

The last English monarch was Elizabeth I and after that we had Monarchs of Great Britain or the United Kingdom (despite the Act of Union only coming in the reign of Queen Anne, all the Stuart Monarchs had styled themselves King/Queen of Great Britain since James VI and I).

The Queen currently is a mixture of Nationalities, she's half-Scottish through her mother and the last TRUE German to marry into the Royal family was Prince Albert, her Great-great grandfather.

She was born and brought up in England and that makes her just as British as many people in this nation of ours.

Answer 14

Going backwards - German (Bavarian), German (North), Scots, Welsh, possibly someone in the houses of York or Lancaster, French, Norse, Danish (that's Canute), even more Germans!.....

Alfred who burnt the cakes - I think he was a Saxon (German)

Perhaps Caractacus (enslaved to Rome)

In answer to your question, let's just say PRE-HISTORY to be on the safe side!