Every monarch the test asks about, in order, with what to remember each one for.
'The Conqueror'. Won at Hastings, ordered the Domesday Book, began the Tower of London.
Forced to agree to the Magna Carta in 1215.
Conquered Wales (1284) and built castles like Caernarfon and Conwy.
Lost to Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn, 1314.
Started the Hundred Years War with France, 1337.
Won the Battle of Agincourt, 1415.
Last York king. Killed at Bosworth: end of the Wars of the Roses.
First Tudor king. Joined the red and white roses.
Six wives. Broke from Rome and set up the Church of England. Executed Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.
Protestant boy king. Book of Common Prayer.
Catholic. 'Bloody Mary': persecuted Protestants.
Protestant. Defeated the Spanish Armada (1588). Had Mary, Queen of Scots executed. No children.
Catholic queen of Scotland. Executed in 1587 on Elizabeth I's orders. Her son became James I.
James VI of Scotland: first to rule both. King James Bible. Gunpowder Plot, 1605.
Fought Parliament in the Civil War. Executed in 1649.
The Commonwealth. Oliver Cromwell ruled as Lord Protector.
The Restoration. Hid in an oak tree in 1651. Great Plague, Great Fire, Habeas Corpus.
Catholic. Fled in the Glorious Revolution; lost the Battle of the Boyne, 1690.
William of Orange, from the Netherlands. Bill of Rights, 1689. Won the Boyne.
Act of Union with Scotland, 1707. Last Stuart.
First Hanoverian, from Germany. Relied on Walpole, the first Prime Minister.
Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobites defeated at Culloden, 1746.
Lost the American colonies (1776). Ireland joined the UK (1801).
The British Empire at its largest. Industrial and Victorian Britain.
Changed the royal family's name to Windsor in 1917, during the First World War.
Longest-reigning British monarch. Diamond Jubilee 2012.
The current King and head of state.
One lost his head (I, 1649); Two hid in a tree and came back (II, 1660).
The First fought the Armada (1588); the Second reigned the longest (1952–2022).
V for Victory at Agincourt · VII started the Tudors · VIII had the six wives and the new Church.
The First brought the Bible and the Bonfire plot; the Second bolted in 1688.
Mary I burned Protestants · Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded · Mary II ruled with William.
The First conquered (1066); the Third came from Orange (1688).
The First came from Germany; the Third lost America.
The First built Welsh castles; the Sixth was a boy king.