How did the British monarchy begin?

There's no doubt with us that the British Monarchy is the most iconic and famous Monarchy in the world. Its history, though, is just as iconic as its present. In this article, we explain how England, and then Britain's Monarchy came to begin to in bite size chunks. read more

The monarchy of the United Kingdom, commonly referred to as the British monarchy, is the constitutional monarchy of the United Kingdom, its dependencies and its overseas territories. The current monarch and head of state, Queen Elizabeth II, ascended the throne on the death of her father, King George VI, on 6 February 1952. read more

The British monarchy and constitution is an evolving, living thing, and the British don’t have a ‘foundation myth’, like the French and Americans do, when ‘everything began’. The monarchy didn’t ‘begin’ at a specific point, and it didn’t have a particular ‘method’ or ‘means’ of establishing itself. read more