One, Two, Three, Your Majesty Trivia Quiz

King Stephen came to the throne following the death of his uncle, Henry I, in 1135. This was the cause of some dispute, since the crown should have passed to Henry's daughter, Matilda. She led an invasion to claim the throne in 1139, and there was a civil war.

There were many local squabbles, but Matilda never achieved the power to which she felt entitled. However, when Stephen died in 1154, the crown passed to Matilda's son, Henry, since Stephen's son, Eustace had died a year previously.

King John came to the throne following the death of his elder brother, Richard I, known as 'The Lionheart' in 1199. He was not a popular king, partly due to his subversive activities while his brother was away at the Crusades. He is mainly remembered as the king who signed the Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215, a year before he died.

Henry III was only nine years old when his father, King John, died in 1216. During his long reign, Henry tried to keep peace with the feuding barons at home, as well as to retain the royal properties in France. He could be regarded as a benevolent man, since he encouraged the founding of the universities in Oxford and Cambridge, as well as giving to the poor.

His patron saint was Edward the Confessor, after whom he named his eldest son, and he was buried near Edward's tomb in Westminster Abbey following his death in 1272.

Edward III came to throne, at the age of 14, after his father, Edward II, was murdered at Berkeley castle in 1327. Edward's reign was affected by the ups and downs of the Hundred Years War, and by outbreaks of the plague. However, he is also remembered for founding the Order of the Garter, and creating the Duchy of Cornwall for the monarch's eldest son. Edward was succeeded by his grandson, Richard, since his son Edward, known as the Black Prince, had died a year before his father's death in 1377.

Originally Richard III supported Edward IV in the Wars of the Roses, and he was named as Lord Protector when Edward V succeeded his father aged 12. However he received evidence that Edward IV had had a marriage contract with another lady prior to his marriage to Elizabeth Woodville, meaning that all their children were illegitimate, and thus unable to inherit the crown. Richard had Edward V and his younger brother sent to the Tower of London a few months after the death of their father in 1483, and their fate remains a mystery.

Henry Tudor made a claim to the throne in 1485, Richard was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field, and Henry VII was crowned.

With the restoration of the monarchy after the Protectorate under Oliver Cromwell and his son, Charles II came to the throne. He was a protestant, and during his reign, laws were passed to ensure that the country should remain Protestant. Charles II was succeeded by his brother, James II, who was a Catholic. William, Prince of Orange, was a nephew of Charles II and James II and also married to James's daughter, Mary; both William and Mary were Protestants. James was deposed and the throne offered jointly to William III and Mary II, who ruled together from 1689 until Mary's death in 1694. William continued to reign alone until his death in 1702.

William III and Mary II had no children to succeed to the throne, so it passed to Mary's sister, Anne in 1702. Anne was pregnant seventeen times, but suffered a series of miscarriages and stillbirths. A few babies were born alive, but only three lived longer than a few hours. Two small girls died of smallpox in 1687; their brother, William, lived until he was eleven, but died in 1700. With the desire to keep a Protestant monarchy, laws were passed to ensure that Anne would be succeeded by her father's Protestant cousin, Sophia of Hanover and her descendants. Anne died in 1714, two months after Sophia, so she was succeeded by Sophia's son, George I.

George III succeeded his grandfather, George II, in 1760. Despite being the third of the Hanoverian monarchs, George III was the first to be both born in Britain, and to speak English as his first language. He bought Buckingham House as a family home, keeping St. James' Palace for official court business. George was an educated and cultured man; he founded the Royal Academy of Arts, as well as taking a keen interest in science, and also amassing a large library, some of which was later given to the British Museum for the nation.

In 1820, he was succeeded by his son, George IV, who had been acting as regent during the last ten years of his father's reign.

Victoria's reign began in 1837, following the death of her uncle, William IV, who was the third son of George III. It is said that when Victoria realised that she would one day become queen she wrote in her journal 'I will be good'. She was only eighteen when her reign began, but old enough not to have her mother act as regent.

She married her cousin, Prince Albert, in 1840, and the couple had nine children. She regarded Albert as one of her chief advisors, and was devastated when he died of typhoid in 1861.

However she went on to reign for another forty years, becoming the longest reigning monarch at the time. She was succeeded by her son, Edward VII.

Charles III became king after his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died aged 96 in 2002, after reigning for seventy years. Charles was 73 years old, and the oldest person to inherit the throne at that time. He was the first monarch to have attended both school (Gordonstoun) and university (Cambridge); he also spent six months at Geelong Grammar School in Australia and a term at Aberystwyth University.

He then trained with the Royal Air Force and served for five years in the Royal Navy.