Who was the first literate English monarch?

While earlier English kings may have had some level of literacy, Alfred the Great is the first king that we know was highly literate. He personally translated at least four major works from Latin into Old English: Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care, Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, Augustine's Soliloquies and fifty of the Psalms. read more

England, Scotland, and Ireland had shared a monarch for more than a hundred years, since the Union of the Crowns in 1603, when King James VI of Scotland inherited the English and Irish thrones from his first cousin twice removed, Queen Elizabeth I. read more