Invaded England on a feeble excuse. Highly repressive. Commissioned Domesday Book to tax us harder.

William II

Similarly repressive. Even the barons who had benefitted from the Norman Conquest did not like him.

Generally liked, even if he 'liked' wenches too much. Left chaos in his wake (as well as many children, guarateeing we now all carry 'royal blood').

Too weak to prevent decades of civil war ravaging our green & pleasant.

Better. Brought order to the chaos.

Bad but with an unjustified good reputation. Wasted our tax money on wars, largely in France. Hated in Gascony.

Actually tried to administer the country well, thus getting up the noses of the barons. Magna Charta is a charter of barons' rights. Unlucky in losing Normandy & having a terrible temper.

'Brought peace with injustice'...but only after civil war. Another weakling.

Messed up in Gascony. Conquered Wales - was that really necessary? Died invading Scotland.

Fought & lost to Scots. Promoted his gay friends over qualified straights & was bumped off horribly.

Fought unnecessary wars in France. Too subject to the influence of mistresses.

Tyrant. Betrayed the people by ratting on the Peasants Revolt agreement.

Usurper. Murdered predecessor (this is a + point).

More unnecessary foreign wars...

Utter weakling. Lost the war in France completely. Caused the War of the Roses by his feebleness.

Usurper. Won War of the Roses. Reasonable administrator but married unwisely, causing political problems.

We will never know how he would have turned out.

Good administrator. Gave us right to bail.

Usurper. Won War of the Roses mark 2. The best administrator among the royals but with a very dodgy claim to the throne.

Wasted his father's legacy but fortuituously saved us from Catholicism.

Died a bit too young but founded many schools.

Bloody Mary. Enough said.

Good marks for cooling religious passions & steadiness under fire from Spanish etc.

OK. Cunning politician.

Dismissed parliament. Plunged country into civil war trying to establish 'the divine right of kings'.

Sold out to foreign powers. Secret Catholic. Tried 'the divine right of kings' on again.

Untrustworthy & booted out.

Beneficiaries of the 'Glorious Revolution'. W spent much money on foreign wars against Louis XIV. Probably just as well. Good marks.

Cunning politician. Not as dim as often portrayed.

Boor.

Gets a brownie point for being the last king to lead the army into battle.

Interfered in politics too much. Questionable sanity with hereditary implications.

Cultured, if nothing else.

Betrayed his real wife Dora Jordan. Allowed Queen Adelaide to interfere in politics too much.

Ok when she relied on Albert's good sense.

The last king to do anything for his country in facilitating the Entente Cordiale with the French. Randy.

A king of very little brain. Betrayed his cousin Tasr Nicholas II, when he could have rescued him.

A weak man stiffened by a tough wife.

Incompetent parent. Attempts, often successfully, to put pressure on elected politicians. Subverts courts.