What was it like to be the King of England in the 1700s?

Britain was still predominantly rural like the continent. But agricultural output was "at ... In Scotland in 1700 around 45 percent the population could read, and by the end of the 1700s it would rise to 85 percent. England's literacy rate in this ... As a constitutional monarch the king's powers remained. read more

England had a total of five monarchs during the 1700s: William III, Anne, George I, George II and George III. The Act of Settlement, signed in 1701, helped evolve the principle of a constitutional monarchy, still used in England today. read more