The handbook does not require you to memorise every monarch, but a handful of names come up repeatedly. From the Anglo-Saxon period: Alfred the Great. After 1066: William the Conqueror, Henry II, Richard the Lionheart, John (of Magna Carta), Edward I and Edward III. From the Tudors: Henry VII, Henry VIII, Mary I, Elizabeth I.
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From the Stuarts: James I, Charles I, Charles II, James II, William III and Mary II, Anne. From the Hanoverians and Saxe-Coburgs: George I, George III, Victoria, Edward VII, George V. From the modern House of Windsor: George VI, Elizabeth II and Charles III. Knowing the dynasty and one or two associated events for each is usually enough.
You may be asked which dynasty followed the Tudors (the Stuarts), who succeeded Queen Anne (George I), or which monarch reigned during the Second World War (George VI).
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