| width="140pt" bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Great Chain of Being]]
| width="150pt" bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[George III]]
| width="170pt" bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[The King's Two Bodies]]
| width="170pt" bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[George IV]]
| width="170pt" bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Divine Right]]
| width="180pt" bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[William IV]]
| width="170pt" bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Touching for the King's Evil]]
| width="170pt" bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Victoria]]
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| '''Power Contested'''
| '''Middle Class Values'''
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| [[Charles I]]
| [[Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha|Prince Albert]]
| [[Civil War]]
| [[Osborne House]]
| [[Oliver Cromwell]]
| [[Victoria and Albert Museum]]
| [[Commonwealth of England]]
| [[Angel in the House]]
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| '''Arts'''
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| [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]]
| [[William Turner]]
| [[John Constable]]
| [[Alfred Tennyson]]
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| '''Democratisation?'''
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| [[James II]]
| [[Peterloo Massacre]]
| [[Glorious Revolution]]
| [[Suffrage]]
| [[William III]] and [[Mary II]]
| [[First Reform Bill]]
| [[Parliament]]
| [[Chartism]]
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| [[Bill of Rights]]
| [[Second Reform Bill]]
| [[Act of Settlement]]
| [[Ballot Act]]
| [[Catholicism#Catholicism_in_England|Catholicism in Britain]]
| [[Third Reform Bill]]
| [[The British Constitution]]
| [[Local Government Act]]
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| '''Modern Monarchy'''
| '''Industrial Revolution'''
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| [[Monarchy today]]
| [[George Stephenson]]
| [[Great Exhibition]]
| [[Great Exhibition]]
| [[Victoria and Albert Museum]]
| [[Factory Acts]]
| [[State Opening of Parliament]]
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| [[Black Rod]]
| [[Yeomen of the Guard]]
| [[Trooping the Colour]]
| [[Royal prerogative]]
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==Landmarks in the History of the British Monarchy==
* <span style="background-color: rgb(224, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">'''1485''': End of the [[War of the Roses]]. '''[[Henry VII]]''' becomes king: '''House of Tudor'''. </span>
* <span style="background-color: rgb(224, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">'''1534''': [[Act of Supremacy]]. [[Reformation]]. The monarch becomes Head of the [[Church of England]]. </span>
* <span style="background-color: rgb(224, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> '''1588''': [[Armada|The Spanish Armada]] and the threat of invasion. Elizabeth gives the [[Tilbury Speech]]. </span>
* <span style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 210); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">'''1603''': The Scottish king James VI inherits the English throne as '''[[James I]]''' of England : '''House of Stuart'''. </span>
* <span style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 210); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> '''1642''': Struggles for power between King and [[Parliament]] lead to the English [[Civil War]].
* <span style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 210); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> '''1649''': '''[[Charles I]]''' is tried and executed. A republic, the '''[[Commonwealth|Commonwealth of England]]''', is established. </span>
* <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 218, 185); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">'''1721''': [[Robert Walpole]] becomes Britain's first Prime Minister.
* <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 218, 185); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">'''1743''': [[Battle of Dettingen]]. '''[[George II]]''' is the last British monarch to lead his troops into battle. </span>
* <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 218, 185); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">'''1837''': '''[[Victoria]]''' becomes queen. Her reign lasts until 1901, longer than that of any other British monarch. </span>
* <span style="background-color: rgb(230, 230, 250); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">'''1901''': '''[[Edward VII]]''' becomes king: '''House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha'''. </span>
* <span style="background-color: rgb(230, 230, 250); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">'''1917''': '''[[George V]]''' changes the name of the royal house to "'''Windsor'''", reacting to anti-German sentiment during WWI. </span>
* <span style="background-color: rgb(230, 230, 250); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">'''12 June 2010''': [[Trooping the Colour]]. The [http://www.royal.gov.uk/RoyalEventsandCeremonies/TroopingtheColour/TroopingtheColour.aspx official celebration] of the Queen's birthday, held annually, reflects the modern role of the monarch as a focus of national identity and a moral example ([http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchUK/HowtheMonarchyworks/HowtheMonarchyworks.aspx The Role of the Monarchy]) as well as the emotional appeal of monarchy.</span>
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