Peter

Having forked out the dosh for a paid DW account, I think it's time to put it to good use. Thus I bring you a poll:


Memorable Monarchs of England: (I'll illustrate this using French monarchs to avoid biasing things)

1) A monarch is memorable if you can reliably link their name and number to some fact, epithet, story, whatever. Even the tiniest little thing counts, with a few exceptions. So, were you to say "Louis XIV, he was the Sun King, but I know nothing else about him", he would be memorable by that definition.

2) You have to be sure of the number. Be honest. If you would say "Louis the Mumbelth? XV? XVI? XVII? Anyway, he got his head chopped off, didn't he?", then you're not allowed to count him as memorable, even if seeing him in the order of succession reminds you that he was XVI.

3) Things that don't count: who they succeeded, or were succeeded by. Knowing roughly which part of history they were in. Appearing in the title of a book/film/play. If you want to say that they are memorable because of Shakespeare, you have to know a line of the play, or something about the plot, and know for sure which monarch it was about, including the number. In short, you have to know something memorable about them, not their circumstances.

Note I haven't included pre-Norman Conquest monarchs, so don't complain about a lack of Alfred, and don't get clever about which ones were of England and which were of the UK.

Anyway, without further ado,