Newsgallery30 Kings and Queens - picturesBookmarkShareNewsBySamantha Gildea12:24, 30 JUL 2014Updated16:16, 18 AUG 2014Henry IV was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1399-1413 (Image: Wikimedia Commons)1 of 30Henry V was King of England from 1413 until his death at the age of 35 in 1422. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)2 of 30King Henry VI was King of England twice during the Wars of the Roses - from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471 (Image: Wikimedia Commons)3 of 30Edward IV was King of England twice - from March 1461 until October 1470 and again from April 1471 until his death in 1483 (Image: Wikimedia Commons)4 of 30King Edward V ruled from April 9 1483 until 26 June of the same year - he was never crowned during his 86-day rule5 of 30Richard III was King of England for two years, from 1483 until his death in 1485 in the Battle of Bosworth Field (Image: Wikimedia Commons)6 of 30Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch, won the Battle of Bosworth Field to take the throne in 1485 - he was the last king to win his throne on the field of battle (Image: Wikimedia Commons)7 of 30Henry VIII was known for having six wives - he divorced two, beheaded two, was widowed by one and his final wife, Catherine Parr, outlived him (Image: Wikimedia Commons)8 of 30Edward VI was only nine years old when he was crowned king in 1547 (Image: Wikimedia Commons)9 of 30Lady Jane Grey was queen for only nine days after being nominated in Edward VI's will - she was executed after the Privy Council declared Mary Tudor the true queen (Image: National Portrait Gallery/Wikimedia Commons)10 of 30Catholic Mary Tudor, queen from 1553-1558, was nicknamed Bloody Mary due to her persecution and execution of Protestants (Image: Wikimedia Commons)11 of 30Elizabeth I was the final queen in the Tudor dynasty - and the most loved. She ruled from 1558 until her death in 1603 (Image: Wikimedia Commons)12 of 30King James I, son of Mary Queen of Scots, ruled both Scotland (from 1567) and England (from 1603) until his death in 1625 (Image: Wikimedia Commons)13 of 30King Charles I ruled England, Scotland and Ireland from 1625 but was executed for treason in 1649 after the English Civil War (Image: Wikimedia Commons)14 of 30Charles II took the throne in 1660, when the monarchy was restored. He ruled during both the Plague and the Great Fire of London (Image: Wikimedia Commons)15 of 30James II and VII was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII, from 6 February 1685 until he was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 (Image: Wikimedia Commons)16 of 30Mary II was the joint sovereign of England, Ireland and Scotland, with her husband (and cousin) William III from 1689 until 1694 (Image: Wikimedia Commons)17 of 30King William III invaded England and won the crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1688 - he ruled until his wife's death in 1694 (Image: Wikimedia Commons)18 of 30Under Queen Anne's reign (1702-1714), the Acts of the Union united the kingdoms of England and Scotland as the Kingdom of Great Britain - which she ruled until her death (Image: Wikimedia Commons)19 of 30During George I's reign (1714-1727) Britain began the transition to the modern system of cabinet government led by a prime minister (Image: Wikimedia Commons)20 of 30His son, George II, was the last British monarch born outside Great Britain (he was born and brought up in northern Germany) (Image: Wikimedia Commons)21 of 30Under George III's reign (1760-1820), Great Britain and Ireland untied to form the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which he ruled until his death in 1820 (Image: Wikimedia Commons)22 of 30George IV, who reigned from 1820-1830, forbid his own wife, Caroline Brunswick from his coronation and tried and failed to divorce her through the Pains and Penalties Bill (Image: Wikimedia Commons)23 of 30King William IV, who reigned from 1830-1837, was nicknamed the 'Sailor King' after serving in the Royal Navy in his youth (Image: Wikimedia Commons)24 of 30Queen Victoria reigned for 63 years and seven months (1837-1901) and was the longest-serving monarch in British history (Image: Wikimedia Commons)25 of 30Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1901 until his death in 1910 (Image: Wikimedia Commons)26 of 30King George V renamed his royal house from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the House of Windsor during World War One due to anti-German public sentiment (Image: Wikimedia Commons)27 of 30Edward VIII reigned for just under a year before abdicating the throne so he could marry the American socialite Wallis Simpson (Image: Wikimedia Commons)28 of 30George VI (right, pictured with Prime Minister Clement Attlee) was immortalised in the Acaedmy Award winning film the King's Speech, in which he was portrayed by Colin Firth (Image: Wikimedia Commons)29 of 30Elizabeth II, our reigning queen, was crowned in 1952 and celebrated her Diamond Jubilee in 2012 (Image: Wikimedia Commons)30 of 30