Brief History of the Royal Family

Elisabeth II isn't the longest reigning monarch (70 years and 214 days)
Louis XIV is (72 years and 110 days)
We even have the shortest reigning monarch as Louis XIX (~20 minutes)

Until after King John there was no rules of succession in England. Often was a de facto election by the Barons and didn’t go to eldest son of previous king. There was also several junior and co kings whilst the older trained up the younger.

Normandy was a vassal state yes but not at that time French.

So it is the descendants of james 1 and 6 through his daughter that rule Great Britain.

James 1 and 6 had a daughter Elizabeth Stuart.
Elizabeth Stuart had a daughter Sophia The Electress of Hanover.

Sophia had a son who became The King of United Kingdom Charles 1.
Then his son Charles 2. Charles 2 didn' t have a son. So his younger brother became King, James 2 and 7.

James 2 and 7' s son became King George 1.
George 1 son became King George 2.
George 2 son became King Grorge 3.
George 3 son became King George 4.
George 4 didn't have a child.

So his younger brother Prince William, Duke of Clarence became King William 4.
King William 4 didn't have a child.
So it went to the daughtet of his younger brother Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn.

That daughter was Queen Victoria.
Forward, now it is King Charles.

No Queen?

“Faster-army diplomacy” gets me every single time

Least complicated family

So, who of you found the creeper creeping in the video?

@CGP Grey, you need to update the video

Faster Army diplomacy is best diplomacy

RIP Queen Elizabeth II

Just to let you know. The date in the arrow between Henry VIII and Edward VI is wrong. It says 1509 but should be 1547

“Will there be a test on this?”

8th september 2022: NEW MONARCH!!!!!!!!!!!! A KING!!!!!!!!!!!

I did watch the full video...but you lost me at the start 😂

Outdated

Me living in 2023 and the queen is dead. (Hi future people looking at this from the future. Have you found a way to revive people? Any cool discoveries?)

Update queen is gone

Congrats on future-proofing this video through at least the 21st century (assuming the UK doesn't up and disestablish the monarchy at some point.)

Who watched this for the nostalgia

need a updated video

song is "Thatched Villagers - Kevin MacLeod"

I don't think it's anything to be proud of, being in a family that never worked for a living. In other words, Vagrancy, is no legacy worthy of praise or even talking about .

About Richard III being the bestest uncle he locked Edward V in the tower of London and Edward's parts weren't discovered untill about 100 years later

bro hunted the wrong animals on that hunting trip

Epic video man! But it's......1st 2nd 3rd and so on. Not 1 2 3 you even changed it for Richard.... why?

Rip Queen Elizabeth II, you'll always be in everyone's hearts

Think Denmark has longest reigning quuen now

Queen Elizabeth II wasn't the longest reigning monarch in history. You forget the Louis XVI the Sun king of France who reigned for 72 years as opposed to Queen Elizabeths 70 years which we recently celebrated in our Platinum Jubilee in Britain.

You could say Aetheldread the unready was... unready to be in the video!

This video is off by one day…

Henry VIII - Splitter of churches, and apparently ladies 💀😭😆

I have no sibling and cousin.

Please update this this makes the tree si much easier to understand all I need is to see the pictures to make this less confusing

Hunting Accident Diplomacy > Big Army Diplomacy

Have you met Hayley