List of fictional monarchs

The Illusionist

• Crown Prince Leopold is a fictional prince of Austria.

A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein - The Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein and the hereditary King of Bohemia, he approaches Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson about the retrieval of letters and photographs confirming a liaison with Irene Adler in order to secure his engagement to Clotilde Lothma Von Saxe-Meiningen, a young Scandinavian princess.

Time for the Stars by Robert A. Heinlein

• Emperor Dom Pedro III greets the protagonists as they return to Earth after a centuries-long galactic voyage, presenting them with a medal on behalf of the World Government.

The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling

• Dom Pedro is mentioned as ruler of the Dominion of Braganza, the shadowy post-Fall successor to the Empire of Brazil ruled by a caudillo of the month.

Books by Harry Turtledove

• In Curious Notions of the Crosstime Traffic series, Imperial Germany is victorious in the 20th century's three world wars, becoming the dominant world power by 2096. This results in Germany restoring the monarchies of numerous countries including Brazil. The unnamed Emperor of Brazil is among the numerous monarchs who attend the Kaiser in Berlin in a glittering annual ceremony broadcast live worldwide.

Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore

• Napoleon VI
  • He is mentioned as the Emperor of France reigning sometime around the 1930s with his scandalous personal life being gossiped about in American publications.

The Virgin & The Wheels

• Napoleon V
  • Emperor in The Virgin & The Wheels by L. Sprague de Camp.

Southern Victory Series by Harry Turtledove

• Charles XI
  • He becomes king of France between the late 1920s and 1930 after Action Française takes control of the country, ends the French Third Republic, and restores the monarchy. He serves as the King of France for 14 years and leads his country into a war with the German Empire.
• Louis XIX
  • After Charles XI is killed in 1944 when Germany destroys most of Paris with an atomic bomb, he is succeeded by Louis XIX.

The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling

• Napoleon VI is mentioned as the Emperor of France-outre-mer in an alternate 2025. France-outre-mer is based in Algiers, reclaimed French, Spanish and Portuguese coastal territories. King-Emperor John II arranges the marriage of his daughter Sita to the heir to the throne of France-outre-mer.

The Two Georges by Richard Dreyfuss and Harry Turtledove

• François IV is mentioned as being the King of the Holy Alliance, a union of the French and Spanish Empires and the British Empire's main rival.

The Short Reign of Pippin IV by John Steinbeck

Pippin Arnulf Héristal, a descendant of Charlemagne, is crowned as Pippin IV to provoke a rebellion.

To Kill Napoleon, Whatever the Cost by Elizabeth Williams

• Napoleon VI is the French Emperor in 1973 in an alternate timeline where Napoleon I imposed a crushing defeat on Britain in 1807.

The Shape of Things to Come by H.G. Wells

• Prince Manfred of Bavaria is the leader of a worldwide rebellion against a nascent world government sometime during the late twentieth century.

Southern Victory Series by Harry Turtledove

• Wilhelm III (or Friedrich I of Germany and Friedrich Wilhelm V of Prussia) refuses to return Alsace-Lorraine to the new Kingdom of France, starts the Second Great War in Europe, during the course of which he authorises the atomic bombings of London, Norwich, Brighton, Paris and Petrograd.

The Gate of Time by Philip José Farmer

• Wilhelm IV leads an expansionist, imperialist Germany in his timeline's version of the Second World War.

We, Adolf I by Laszlo Gaspar

• Adolf I is Adolf Hitler who had won the Battle of Stalingrad and eventually emerged victorious from the whole of WWII. Following his victory he crowns himself under the name Emperor Adolf I, erecting in Berlin a huge Imperial Palace, and preparing a dynastic marriage with a Japanese princess in order to produce an heir who would rule the whole world.

If It Had Happened Otherwise

• George I – In Harold Nicolson's If Byron Had Become King of Greece, Lord Byron survives his illness in 1824, becomes the chief military strategist in the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire and is crowned King in the 1830s.

Books by Harry Turtledove

In the Crosstime Traffic series, an unnamed Shah is mentioned as being the ruler of Iran in the 2092 of the 'home timeline', operating a police state.

The Alteration by Kingsley Amis

In the alternate 1976 depicted in the novel, amongst the numerous crowned heads of Europe attending the funeral of Stephen III of England is an unspecified King of Naples.

In the Presence of Mine Enemies by Harry Turtledove

• Umberto III – In the alternate 2010 depicted in the book, Italy (like Spain and Portugal) is an ally of the Greater German Reich and possesses its own empire but is compelled to carry out racial policies such as the extermination of Arabs in its territories.

The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling

• Akahito is the Emperor of Dai-Nippon (Greater Japan) in 2025. Dai-Nippon, with its capital based in Peking, encompasses Japan, China, Korea, the Philippines, most of Southeast Asia and coastal colonies in Siberia and Alaska. Regarding the Fall as beneficial, Dai-Nippon rivals the Angrezi Raj.

Books by Harry Turtledove

• Stanley Owana Laanui – In the Days of Infamy series, set in an alternate timeline where Japan not only attacked Pearl Harbor but also fully occupied the Hawaiian Islands, Laanui is installed as a puppet 'King of Hawaii'.
• In In The Presence of Mine Enemies, set in an alternate timeline where the Axis Powers won the Second World War, an unnamed Emperor of Manchukuo (a subordinate ruler within the Japanese Greater East Asia Sphere of Co-Prosperity) is one of many heads of state who commiserate the death of the Führer, Kurt Haldweim.
• In Joe Steele, Japan surrenders to the Americans in the South and the Soviets in the North. The U.S. establishes the Constitutional Monarchy of Japan, and Hirohito's 12-year-old son Akihito becomes the new emperor, although it is General Dwight D. Eisenhower who runs the country.

Cabin Pressure

• King Maximilian - In the episode Vaduz, the crew of MJN Air are hired to fly King Maximilian (played by Kieran Hodgson) to Heathrow. Unbeknownst to them, however, is the fact that Maximilian is a young boy, the only son of the previous King, preceded by six older sisters with the eldest Princess Theresa (played by Matilda Ziegler) acting as Regent. Having become King at such a young age, 'Maxi' constantly flouts his title and power for trivial reasons.

The Alteration by Kingsley Amis

• An unnamed Emperor of Mexico is mentioned in conversation between the castrati Mirabilis and Viaventosa.

Southern Victory Series by Harry Turtledove

• Maximilian II had served as the Emperor of Mexico since at least 1880. He maintained the close ties between his country and France. In 1881, with his nation desperate for money, Maximilian decided to sell the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora to the Confederate States, which would cause the Second Mexican War with the United States.
• Francisco Jose I served as the Emperor of Mexico after Maximilian II. During his reign as emperor, he saw Mexico enter the Great War on the side of the Entente Powers with the Confederate States, the United Kingdom, France, and Russia.
• Maximilian III served as the Emperor of Mexico after Francisco I. During his reign as emperor during the late 1910s and early 1920s, anti-Habsburg revolutionaries sought to remove him from the throne and sparked the Mexican Civil War in 1917. He served as the emperor until at least 1942 and saw the beginning of the Second Great War and Mexico join the Entente Powers once again.
• Francisco Jose II served as the Emperor of Mexico after Maximilian III and was the emperor during the Second Great War. He reluctantly supplied troops to the Confederacy, who were used to both help attack the United States and later defend the Confederacy from US counter-attacks.
  • After U.S. General Irving Morrell's major breakthrough at Pittsburgh came at the expense of poorly-equipped Mexican troops, Francisco Jose II refused to allow his men to participate in any more major battles against the United States. This would result in Mexico losing the Baja California peninsula to the United States. Confederate President Jake Featherston, after unsuccessfully attempting to change the Emperor's mind, finally acquiesced. Mexican troops were instead used to battle the black guerrilla fighters in the southern part of the Confederacy.

Job, A Comedy of Justice by Robert Heinlein

• Among the many alternate timelines visited by the protagonists, there is one in which late 20th century Mexico is a monarchy, ruled by a king.

The Alteration by Kingsley Amis

• The unnamed King of Portugal is mentioned as being in attendance at the funeral of Stephen III of England in 1976.

Curious Notions by Harry Turtledove

• In an alternate timeline, Imperial Germany became the dominant world power by 2096, following its victories in the 20th century's three world wars. As result, Germany restored the monarchies of various countries including Portugal. The King of Portugal is among the many monarchs annually attending the Kaiser in Berlin, in a glittering ceremony broadcast live worldwide.

The Alteration by Kingsley Amis

The novel is set in an alternate 1976. The Crown Prince of Muscovy is mentioned as being in attendance at the funeral of King Stephen III of England.

Back in the USSA by Eugene Byrne and Kim Newman

• Nicholas III is the Russian Tsar in 1972 as depicted in Abdication Street. His daughter Duchess Ekaterina is intended to marry Charles, Duke of Cornwall, the great-nephew and heir apparent of Edward VIII.

The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling

• Grand Duke Nikolai is the de facto tsar of the Russian Empire in 2025. By the alternate 2025 of the novel, the Empire is centred around Samarkand and has adopted regressive religious practices such as ritualistic cannibalism and worship of Chernobog.

Southern Victory Series by Harry Turtledove

• Michael II – The Grand Duke succeeds his brother as Tsar of Russia in the 1930s, reigning until the end of the Second Great War when he is forced to pursue an armistice with the Central Powers and to relinquish the throne after a German superbomb is dropped on Petrograd.

What Might Have Been

• Constantine I
  • In the story What If Napoleon Triumphs In Russia by Adam Zamoyski, after the French Empire's victory over Russia and Alexander I's flight from Pskov to a remote monastery, Grand Duke Constantine was installed by Napoleon as Tsar on 15 August 1813. Tsar Constantine I was considered a weak leader, being forced to relinquish the Baltic territories, return Finland to Sweden and to send Russian troops to help France fight in Spain. Constantine faced a peasant's revolt led by a false pretender claiming to be Alexander I but was ultimately assassinated in 1827, replaced by his younger brother Nicholas.

Times Without Number by John Brunner

• Philip IX
  • In an alternative timeline where the Spanish Armada successfully invaded England in 1588, the 'Western Empire' (the successor to the Spanish Empire) encompasses France, England, the Spanish Netherlands, South America and Central America with a loose protectorate over a Mohawk-controlled North America; however, the Iberian Peninsula was turned into a 'New Khalifate' by Islamic invaders, forcing the relocation of the centre of the Spanish Empire to Londres.

Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore

In an alternate timeline where the Confederate States won the 'War of Southron Independence', one consequence is the revitalisation of the Spanish Empire consisting of the Spanish West Indies, the Spanish East Indies and Spanish Africa (all of mainland Latin America being annexed by the Confederacy) and allied to the German Union. An unnamed King is mentioned as ruling during the 1950s.

The Two Georges by Harry Turtledove and Richard Dreyfuss

In an alternate reality where American Revolution never occurred and British America remained within the British Empire, a personal union comprising the French and Spanish empires called the Holy Alliance is the British Empire's main rival; the Holy Alliance is dominated by its French half, ruled by François IV.

What Might Have Been

• Joseph I
  • In the story What If Napoleon Triumphs In Russia by Adam Zamoyski, after the French Empire's victory over Russia, Napoleon returned Finland to Sweden and installed Józef Poniatowski as King. Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte is executed for treason against France.

The Alteration by Kingsley Amis

• An unnamed Sultan-Calif of Turkey is mentioned with the Ottoman Empire surviving well into the 20th century and still controlling vast amounts of territory including the Balkans.

The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling

• Al-Hussein is the ruler of the Caliphate of Damascus and the Caliph of Islam in the post-Fall world. The Caliphate is an Arab empire encompassing the former Ottoman Empire, the Balkans and Persia, born out of Arab revolts against the Ottoman Empire in the immediate aftermath of the Fall. It is the main rival of France-outre-mer and is the chief obstacle to the formation of an Anglo-French condominium over the Sultanate of Egypt.

2525

• George VII: Whilst a downsized British Royal Family (a couple living in a two bedroom flat in Tooting) recall the gradual decline of their family and the United Kingdom, they recall George VII seceding Earl's Court to Australia as one of the many secessions which broke up the country.

A Certain Magical Index

• Queen Elizard: Debuted in the 17th light novel volume of the series. She is nearly deposed by her daughter, Princess Carissa, in a coup d'état with the Knights of England but managed to escape. She later used a magical artifact to help weaken her rebellious daughter and empower all of the peoples of the United Kingdom in the final battle against her in Buckingham Palace.

Arthur C. Clarke stories

• King Henry IX, in the short story "Refugee", is still the Prince of Wales when Britain's first spaceport opens in Salisbury Plain. He stows away in a space freighter heading to Mars.

Anno Domini 2000, or, Woman's Destiny by Sir Julius Vogel

• Emperor Albert is the ruler of the Federated British Empire. He falls in love with and marries the Imperial Prime Minister Hilda Fitzherbert and becomes ruler of the former United States after a war sparked by his refusal to marry the President's daughter.

Anno Dracula series by Kim Newman

• Dracula, who defeats his adversaries, marries Queen Victoria, and seizes control of Britain in Anno Dracula. He becomes first Prince Consort, and subsequently Lord Protector.
• King Victor I in The Bloody Red Baron. The King is the real life Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Queen Victoria's grandson and the second in the line of succession to the British throne from his birth in 1864 until his death in 1892.

Another Case of Milton Jones

• Milton I, King of Middle England, played by Milton Jones. After accidentally leading a cavalry division over Tower Bridge (a treasonable offence) and fleeing London, Milton Jones briefly becomes King of Middle England due to his command over grammar and pronunciation in his former capacity as a royal speech therapist. He is captured after an uneventful war between the United Kingdom and Middle England and sentenced to death for treason, but is pardoned by the Queen after curing Prince Herbert of his working class speech patterns.

Assassin's Creed

• George Washington in Assassin's Creed III. George Washington is corrupted by an Apple of Eden, turns the Thirteen Colonies into the United Kingdom of America and dubs himself King.

The Avengers

• Queen Anne II
  • In the episode Esprit de Corps, a Jacobitist coup against the British Government attempts to install Cathy Gale as Queen.

Blackadder

• Prince Ludwig the Indestructible, played by Hugh Laurie, killed Queen Elizabeth I and her court, which included Lord Blackadder, Lord Melchett, Lord Percy and Nursie, and disguised himself as the Queen, presumably continuing until the Queen's official death.
• Edmund III of the United Kingdom, played by Rowan Atkinson, became king in Blackadder: Back & Forth after using a time machine to alter history.

Books by William F. Buckley, Jr.

• In the 1976 novel Saving the Queen, Queen Caroline ascended the throne in 1951.

Books by Joan Aiken

• James III of the United Kingdom
  • King in Joan Aiken's Black Hearts in Battersea
• Richard IV of the United Kingdom
  • King in The Cuckoo Tree and Dido and Pa Son of James III - he also appears as David Prince of Wales in The Whispering Mountain

Books by Kingsley Amis

• Stephen II, son of Arthur, Prince of Wales (d. 1502) and Katherine of Aragon. His existence led his uncle Henry the Abominable (Henry VIII in our reality) to try to usurp the throne, but was foiled in the War of the English Succession. Presumably, Stephen III and William V are his descendants.
  • Thereafter, King in The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
• Stephen III of England
  • King in The Alteration by Kingsley Amis. He is dead before the start of the novel, which opens with his state funeral at the St George Basilica at Coverley.
• William V of England
  • King in The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
  • Son of Stephen III
• Henry IX of England
  • King in The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick, the novel-within-a-novel depicting an alternate universe.
  • The real-life Henry, Duke of Cornwall, the son of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. In the novel-within-a-novel, he continues his father's Schismatic religious policies.
• Elizabeth Tudor of England
  • Queen in Galliard by Keith Roberts (a pastiche of his novel Pavane), a novel-within-a-novel depicted in The Alteration by Kingsley Amis.

Stories by A. Bertram Chandler

• The coronation of James XIV of the Jacobite Kingdom of Waverley is mentioned in one of Chandler's stories, described as a ceremony of great pomp and broadcast throughout the human-settled galaxy.

Books by Peter Dickinson

• Victor I, the historic Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, survives the influenza pandemic in 1892 and goes on to marry his prospective bride Mary of Teck (as detailed in the preamble of King and Joker).
• Victor II, the grandson of Victor I and Queen Mary. Despite being a qualified physician, the British Government prevents him from practicing medicine over fears of lawsuits.

Books by Michael Moorcock

• Gloriana I of Albion is the reigning monarch in Gloriana, or the Unfullfill'd Queen. She is Moorcock's antithesis of Queen Elizabeth I in this homage to Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy of novels.
• King Hern VI of Albion is Gloriana I's father, a despot with echoes of Elizabeth I's father, King Henry VIII (deceased before Moorcock's novel opens).

Books by Harry Turtledove

• Henry IX of the United Kingdom is the reigning monarch in In the Presence of Mine Enemies, an alternate history wherein the Axis won World War II. While the king has very little direct power, (the Nazis having annexed the UK) he is able to affect the politics of his country. His lineage is never addressed. The book mentions the Union of South Africa as an independent ally of the Reich which continues to practice Apartheid; it is unclear whether Henry IX is also the King of South Africa.
• Charles III of the United Kingdom in The Two Georges, coauthored with Richard Dreyfus. While the character is described as being quite physically similar to the Prince of Wales, the fictional Charles III is actually descended from Edward VIII.
• Edward VIII was able to retain his throne for much longer in both The Two Georges and the Southern Victory Series.
• Edward IX is mentioned in The Two Georges, probably the son of Edward VIII and the father or brother of Charles III.
• In Ruled Britannia, the Spanish Armada conquered England in 1588 and Elizabeth I was deposed and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Philip II of Spain made his daughter Isabella the Queen of England. Her husband Albert became King of England by virtue of their marriage. Queen Isabella ruled England until 1598 when the Spanish occupiers were driven out and Elizabeth I was restored to the throne.

Carolus Rex series by Andre Norton and Rosemary Edghill

• Charles III: On his deathbed Charles II confirms The Duke of Monmouth as his legitimate heir, avoiding Monmouth's Rebellion, the excesses of James II and the Glorious Revolution
• Henry IX King of the Great Britain as of the 1805 setting of the book.
• Briefly, the book names Charles IV, James II and Charles V as monarchs reigning between Charles III and Henry IX.

Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore

• William V is mentioned in passing as being king sometime during the first half of the 20th Century.

Chrestomanci series of books by Diana Wynne Jones

• In Charmed Life, Cat Chant tells Janet Chant that the king is Charles VII.

Doctor Who

• Queen Liz 10 – The ruler of the Starship UK in The Beast Below, she refers to herself and her predecessors by their abbreviated name and number.
• Henry XII - Mentioned by Liz 10 as having the Doctor as a drinking buddy in The Beast Below.
• The Night and the Doctor mini-series episode Bad Night features an unspecified Queen and Prince of Wales, the former appearing in the form of a goldfish and the latter speaking to the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond over the TARDIS telephone. The Doctor attempts to have the Queen restored to her human form but the hostage (in the form of a fly) he was hoping to exchange in order to achieve this is accidentally killed after Amy swatted it with a newspaper and the goldfish he picked up is not in fact the transmogrified Queen.

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (Anime)

• Charles di Britannia

The 98th Emperor of the Holy Britannia Empire and father of main character, Lelouch Lamperouge. He installs his children in important positions in the Empire to see their true abilities. He views equality as an evil that must be dispelled and encourages social battle to maintain evolution within the society. As such, he publicly supports inequality and calls for competition and fighting so as to create progress.

• Lelouch Vi Britannia

The 99th Emperor of the Holy Britannia Empire, as well as the titular character of series. When Lelouch ascended to the throne during, he quickly abolished many policies that grew during the Charles' reign. These include the abolishment of aristocratic system, financial conglomerates, and the liberation of colonies. This led to discontent, and thus, agents and loyalist to Emperor Lelouch routinely goes and put down dissidents.

Columbia & Britannia by Adam Chamberlain and Brian A. Dixon

• George V, the fictional eldest son of Queen Victoria.
• Edward VII is the eldest son of George V. His relationship with his Québécois mistress Cynthia Grey and the resulting scandals almost result in him being forced to abdicate the throne. He retains the throne through a compromise stating that he and Grey should neither marry nor produce any children, the latter clause being broken by the births of their two (untitled) sons. Reigning from 1913 to 1918, he died heirless from acute pancreatitis.
• George VI is the second eldest son of George V and the brother of Edward VII, analogous with the real-life George VI. He reigned from 1918 to 1953, overseeing Britain's effort in the War of Wars (1933–1943).
• George VII is the only child of Elizabeth II. After his mother's assassination, he becomes King at the age of five; Princess Margaret, Elizabeth II's sister, acts as Regent to George VII until his coronation on his eighteenth birthday in 1976. A withdrawn and private figure, his public popularity is maintained due to sympathy regarding the conditions of his succession. He reigned from 1963.

The Emberverse series

In the apocalyptic series that begins with Dies the Fire, some of the British Royal Family are evacuated to the Isle of Wight.^[1]

• Charles IV, successor to William V.

Futurama

• In the episode All the Presidents' Heads, an unnamed Queen of Great Britain, North America and 'two parking spaces in Tokyo' reigns in the thirty-first century due to the Planet Express crew accidentally preventing the American Revolution whilst trying to erase a shameful part of Professor Farnsworth's family history. The Queen is descended from the Farnsworth family due to their elevation to a ducal family with its members providing consorts for the Royal Family.

The Gate of Worlds by Robert Silverberg

• James the Valiant - the Black Death, much worse than in our history, so weakened Europe that the entire continent was conquered by the Ottoman Empire. In the 20th Century, the freedom fighter James made use of a period of Ottoman instability, led a successful rebellion, liberated England after five centuries of Turkish rule and inaugurated a new Royal Dynasty. English people were happy and proud of James the Valiant's achievement - though the independent England was an impoverished country, of little account in the wider world.

Headlong by Emlyn Williams

• King John II: The actor Jack Green, who is grandson of Prince Albert Victor and made king after the royal family is killed in a dirigible accident during George V's Silver Jubilee in 1935.
• King William V: Originally William Millingham, is the private secretary of John II, and as another descendant of royalty, becomes the new king after John's abdication.

Henry IX

Henry IX of the United Kingdom, played by Charles Edwards. After his older brother John died in a horse riding accident, Henry became heir apparent to the British throne, becoming king in 1992. After nearly twenty-five years on the throne, he experiences a midlife crisis and intends to abdicate. Queen Katarina (played by Sally Philips) stops him. Alastair, the Prince of Wales, comes out as gay. Henry IX retains the throne.

House of Cards

In the British political satire To Play the King, the second book (and TV series) in the House of Cards trilogy by Michael Dobbs, an unnamed King takes the throne. He goes up against the utterly ruthless and unscrupulous Prime Minister Francis Urquhart and is ultimately undone and forced to abdicate. The novel diverges in many ways from the TV series and carries the suggestion that after abdicating the ex-King would go into politics and seek to be elected Prime Minister. At the end of To Play The King, the King's son is crowned and during The Final Cut is depicted performing monarchical duties.

The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons

• William XXIII of the Kingdom of Windsor-in-Exile
  • Also called "Sad King Billy"
  • King on Asquith, a planet traditionally held by his kingdom
  • Sells Asquith in order to settle on the planet Hyperion, where he intends to revive fine art, taking Martin Silenus with him.

"If: A Jacobite Fantasy" by Charles Petrie

• James III of England and VIII of Scotland: The Jacobite rising of 1745, led by Charles Edward Stuart, succeeded in restoring the House of Stuart to the British throne. In February 1746, his father arrived in London to officially take the throne. In 1752, he granted clemency to the Hanoverian rebels. By 1926, the House of Hanover's usurpation of the throne was viewed as "an interlude in the national life, but it was one that will not have been without its purpose if it is regarded as a lesson upon the consequences of rebellion."
• Charles III of England and Scotland: James III's eldest son. Charles III allied himself with Frederick II of Prussia and, together, they "towered over the other rulers of Europe like colossi" from 1766 until Frederick's death in 1786. During his reign, the colonies in British North America rebelled against Great Britain but a diplomatic solution was reached. Charles III was credited with saving the situation by his witty remark to George Washington, who went on to become one of Britain's greatest generals, and his colleagues: "Gentlemen, we have one thing in common: my family have no more cause to like the House of Commons than you have."
• Henry IX of England and I of Scotland: James III's second son. As Duke of York, his patronage helped ensure the flourishing of literature and art in Britain and this policy continued after he came to the throne as Henry IX. After the French Revolution drove the deposed Electors of Hanover into exile in 1789, he gave them a "generous pension."
• James IV of England and IX of Scotland
• James V of England and X of Scotland
• James VI of England and XI of Scotland was the reigning monarch in 1926.

GURPS Infinite Worlds

• William III of England (in the 12th rather than the 17th Century)
• Unbroken Plantagenet Monarchs until the 19th Century.

In the GURPS role-playing game Infinite Worlds, in the year 1120 the White Ship carrying William the Aetheling, the heir of Henry I of England, did not hit a rock in the English Channel. William survived the voyage and eventually assumed the throne - becoming known as William III of England. Neither the Empress Matilda nor Stephen of Blois had any claim on the throne. William's descendants constituted more than seven centuries of English monarchs, with the House of Plantagenet retaining unbroken power. Ultimately the "Anglo-French Empire" became a world-spanning power, achieving an Industrial Revolution much earlier. However, in 1902 unknown parties detonated a nuclear device, destroying the royal family.

Johnny English

• Pascal Sauvage I of the United Kingdom, in Johnny English, is played by John Malkovich.
• Johnny English, played by Rowan Atkinson, is accidentally crowned king. Abdicating after one day in favour of Queen Elizabeth II. English exchanges the throne for a knighthood.

King Ralph

• Wyndham Family, the ruling House of the United Kingdom in the film King Ralph, who are all killed in a photography accident.
• Ralph I of the United Kingdom, played by John Goodman, was an American lounge singer who came to the throne following the Wyndham family's demise.
• Cedric I of the United Kingdom, played by Peter O'Toole, took power after Ralph I abdicated the throne.

The Last Man by Mary Shelley

• Adrian, Earl of Windsor: In a post-apocalyptic 21st century, Britain is a republic with a Lord Protector as head of state where Adrian, the son of the last king and heir to the British throne, embraces republican principles.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

• Nan Bollen
• Gloriana I
• Jacob I
• Gloriana II

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

• In an alternate timeline accidentally created by Clark Kent, Lois Lane and H. G. Wells in the Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman episode "Soul Mates", Tempus was the King of America in 1996.

Lord Darcy novels

• John IV of the Anglo-French Empire
  • King in the Lord Darcy novels by Randall Garrett
  • Descendant of Richard I Plantagenet, who survived the siege of Chalus in 1199 in this series.
• Arthur Ithe history of the same timeline Arthur I, Duke of Brittany, Richard I's nephew, got to be King and proved one of the greatest Kings of English history. His reign came to be considered a Golden Age, to the extent that later generations popular imagination confused him with King Arthur of heroic myth. A major achievement of Arthur's time was the beginning of systematic research and codification of magic, which would later become a central aspect of human civilization.

Marvel Comics

• King Britain of Britain, though technically he rules the whole of Europe. He is king in the Earth X setting, and an alternate future version of Captain Britain.

The Moon Maid/Moon Men

Edgar Rice Burroughs published in the early 1920s "The Moon Maid" and "The Moon Men", envisioning a 20th-century in which "The Great War" would have gone on uninterrupted, though with varying intensity, from 1914 and until 1967 – ending with the total victory of the Anglo-Saxon Powers, Britain and the US, and the complete defeat and surrender of all other powers. Britain and the US thereupon become co-rulers of the planet, London and Washington being the twin planetary capitals and the US President and British Monarch acting as co-rulers, and with the British-American domination of the world imposed by the International Peace Fleet, made up of airships. In the first decades of the 21st century, the world basks in peace, there seems no enemy and no threat anywhere, and pressure grows for complete disarmament and scrapping of the International Peace Fleet. It is the (unnamed) King of Britain who strongly resists this pressure, and due to him half of the Fleet and of the world's armament industries are retained. This is not enough to resist the invasion fleet of the wild Kalkars from the Moon, led by the renegade Earthman Orthis, which suddenly descends on the world in 2050, capturing London and Washington and ranging the world at will. But by the British King's foresight there was still a remnant of the Fleet in existence, which kills the renegade Orthis – facilitating humanity's eventual liberation from Kalkar domination, though only centuries later.

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

• Auberon Quin in The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton. In this book the ruler of the United Kingdom is selected randomly from the "official class", which one character describes as "the sane and enduring democracy ... founded on the fact that all men are equally idiotic".

Nation by Terry Pratchett

• After influenza kills the entire British royal family, Governor Fanshaw is the heir to the throne and is sought out in the South Pacific. His daughter Ermentrude ("Daphne") Fanshaw is his heir and succeeds him on the throne and becomes queen.

Old Harry's Game

• Derek I
  • Deceased historian Edith Barrington (played by Annette Crosby) is forced to write a biography of Satan as part of a deal to no longer be billeted with her ex-son-in-law Thomas Crimp, the most vile human ever to have lived. Edith discovers numerous inaccuracies in official recorded histories and becomes frustrated by newly-revealed actual historical events. One of them is the existence of Derek I, a Tudor monarch forgotten by history. Satan's assistant Scumspawn (played by Robert Duncan) recalls the monarch as 'the mad, black, Catholic lesbian', personally believing that she was undone by her Catholicism.

The Palace

• King James III
• King Richard IV, his son, played by Rupert Evans

Passport to Pimlico

• Sébastien de Charolais
  • The descendant of Charles the Bold, the presumed last Duke of Burgundy, he is installed as the Duke of a revived Burgundy in post-Second World War Pimlico.

The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling

• Victoria II reigned from 1921 to 1942. Hedonistic, intelligent and sexually liberal, most of what defined her reign is whitewashed out of history books. She died unmarried and without issue.
• Albert I, the cousin of Victoria II and a former Professor of Indo-European Languages, reigned from 1942 to 1989.
• Elizabeth II, reigned from 1989 to 2005. She is known as the 'Whig Empress' for pushing for the right for women to study at universities.
• King-Emperor John II is the ruler of the British Empire (Angrezi Raj) in an alternate history set in 2025. He was the second son of Elizabeth II, his older brother Edward having predeceased him.
• Charles III, the son of John II. Reigned from 2025 onwards.

Revolting People

• Samuel I
  • While en route to London to convince George III to liberalise the governance of the Thirteen Colonies and thus avert the American Revolution, Baltimore shopkeeper Samuel Oliphant (played by Jay Tarses) dreams that he has been appointed by popular demand as King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Empire 'especially America', acting as an absolutist despot. Samuel's dream ends with his assassination by his firebrand daughter Mary.

Sliders

• In the parallel universe featured in the Sliders episode "The Prince of Wails" in which Great Britain won the American Revolutionary War, King Thomas was the reigning monarch of the British Empire until he was killed during the war with France in 1995. He was succeeded by his son Harold, Prince of the Americas.
• In the parallel universe featured in the Sliders episode "The Prince of Tides" in which the United States became a constitutional monarchy, Thomas Jefferson was crowned as the first King of the United States in 1789. His direct descendants continued to reign more than 200 years later. The reigning monarch King Thomas and his sons Benjamin and Tyler were killed in a house fire in 1997, which was later determined to be arson.

Star Spangled Crown by Charles A. Coulombe

• King James IV of the United States
  • Born Hans-Josef II of Lichtenburg
  • Conferred authority in the wake of a military coup whose leaders reconstitute the United States as a constitutional monarchy
  • Formally "James IV, King of the United States and of their Possessions, Grand Duke of Lichtenberg"

The Tales of Alvin Maker by Orson Scott Card

• As a result of the continued existence of the Commonwealth of England, the exiled House of Stuart establishes the Crown Colonies, a monarchy on the American Eastern seaboard co-existing with a New England Republic and a smaller United States.

The Time Ships

• Egbert I of the United Kingdom
  • King in The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter, a sequel to The Time Machine by H.G. Wells.
  • Note: The novel's protagonist, visiting an alternate version of the Great War, is surprised to discover that the King is "a skinny chap called Egbert", apparently a distant cousin of the Royal Family who was the most senior survivor of massive German bombing raids early in the conflict.

The Virgin & The Wheels

• David I of the United Kingdom and North America
  • King in The Virgin & The Wheels by L. Sprague de Camp.
  • His birthday celebrated in New York City, all streets festooned with Union Jacks. New Yorkers regard him fondly as "Our King" and see nothing strange about being under British rule into the mid-20th century. The day's paper told of "His Majesty's visit to a soap factory, where he showed a keen interest in the technical details" and of the launch of the cruise ship Queen Victoria.

V for Vendetta

• Queen Zara of the United Kingdom
  • Queen in V for Vendetta (comic book)
  • Following a nuclear war in the 1980s, the crown falls to Zara, a 16-year-old queen who serves as a puppet monarch for Adam Susan and his fascist Norsefire party.

Agatean Empire

• One Sung Mirror, the first Agatean Emperor and unifier of the Counterweight Continent.
• A number of unnamed emperors are featured or mentioned in the Discworld novels. The first emperor, introduced in The Colour of Magic, is described as young, being frequently overruled by his Grand Vizier Nine Revolving Mirrors; in Mort mentions that the young emperor's father and grandfather also reigned as emperor. Prior to the events of Interesting Times, he was assassinated and succeeded by his uncle, a near-dead sadist.
• In Interesting Times, succession to the Agatean throne is determined by war between five noble families, the Hongs, the Sungs, the Tangs, the McSweeneys and the Fangs; hereditary succession is rare. The Grand Vizier, Lord Hong, attempted to install himself as Emperor by orchestrating a revolution by the ineffective Red Army (mostly consisting of children held back by Agatean respect for authority) and leading the subsequent counter-revolution; he then becomes leader of the armies of the five noble families in a brief war against the Silver Horde.
• Cohen the Barbarian conquers the Agatean Empire in Interesting Times with the Silver Horde as part of his retirement plan, adopting the regnal name Ghengis Cohen. However, he and his allies abandon it in The Last Hero in order to exact revenge on the Discworld gods at Dunmanifestin for allowing heroes to grow old and die. In The Discworld Atlas, Cohen is referred to as the 'Last Emperor', the Empire being replaced by a 'People's Beneficial Republic' led by a 'Chairman Butterfly'.

Ankh-Morpork

• Queen Alguinna IV
• King Artorollo
  • Mentioned in Mort as the reigning monarch of Ankh-Morpork when Archchancellor Alberto Malich attempted to perform the Rite of AshkEnte backwards.
• King Cirone IV
• Queen Coanna
• King Loyana the Aaargh
  • The shortest reigning monarch in Morporkian history, ruling for 1.13 seconds from coronation to assassination.
• King Ludwig the Tree
  • Issued numerous bizarre proclamations including the need to develop a new type of frog.
  • Responsible for the motto of Ankh-Morpork, Quanti Canicula Ille In Fenestra ('How much is that doggie in the window').
• King Paragore
• King Tyrril
• King Veltrick I
  • Founded the 'Ankh-Morpork City Watch and Ward' in AM 1561 with his personal motto 'Fabricati Diem, Puncti Agunt Celeriter' ('Make the Day, the Moments Pass Quickly') becoming that of the new police force.
• King Veltrick II
  • Assassinated his father Veltrick II four days after his founding of the 'Ankh-Morpork City Watch and Ward', letting it fall into disarray and obscurity due to a disinterest in maintaining a police force.
• King Veltrick III
• King Webblethorpe the Unconscious
• King Lorenzo the Kind
  • Ankh-Morpork's last and worst king, a sadistic torturer who was 'very fond of children'.
  • He was overthrown in the Ankh-Morpork Civil War of AM 1688 and subsequently beheaded by Commander of the City Watch Suffer-Not-Injustice 'Old Stoneface' Vimes as no judge would preside over the king's trial. Lorenzo was succeeded by a series of equally or even more tyrannical Patricians, after the people voted against Vimes' attempts to introduce democracy.
• Rex Vivat
  • During Guards! Guards!, the Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night overthrow the Patrican, Havelock Vetinari, and install a false pretender (a distant cousin of the lodge master who is not part of the Ankh-Morporkian royal bloodline) as puppet king. This is arranged by the summoning of a dragon (with the use of a book stolen from the Library of the Unseen University) and its subsequent banishment by the pretender. The pretender is readily adopted by the Ankh-Morporkian citizenry as their king despite not knowing his name, 'Rex Vivat' being his assumed name as it was on all of the royal banners. The false king was killed by the dragon shortly after being crowned.
• Dragon
  • During Guards! Guards!, the dragon banished from the city by the new king returns and installs itself as the new king, keeping lodge master Lupine Wonse as its mouthpiece and demanding gold and virgins. It ultimately leaves the city, revealing itself as female after being courted by Errol, a swamp dragon.
• Captain Carrot Ironfounderson
  • A member of the City Watch and the rightful king, he does not acknowledge his claim, preferring instead to be a watchman. He has, on occasion, exercised any royal prerogative he might have when the need arises.
  • Lord Vetinari keeps Carrot near in order to prevent coups by false pretenders and to exercise powers reserved only for the king simply by referring to Carrot.
• Corporal Cecil Wormsborough St. John 'Nobby' Nobbs
  • A member of the City Watch, he may or may not be an illegitimate member of the de Nobbes family and the great-grandson of the last Earl of Ankh (making him second-in-line to the Ankh-Morpork throne after Captain Carrot). His potential relationship to the de Nobbes family was revealed up in Feet of Clay as part of a plot to restore the monarchy with the Guilds and the ruling families liking to replace Lord Vetinari with a puppet but ultimately with Dragon, King of Arms (the city's chief heraldry expert and vampire) wishing to prevent Captain Carrot producing a future part-werewolf royal line with his girlfield Sergeant Angua. Commander Vimes reasoned that, given how the Nobbses stole so many things over the years (possibly including the de Nobbes arms ring), Nobby could be proven to be 'the Duke of Pseudopolis, the Serif of Klatch and the Dowager Duchess of Quirm'; however, Nobby later reveals that his family possesses a larger collection of noble jewels which could prove his noble ancestry.

Atlantica

• King Triton, father of Ariel in the Disney film The Little Mermaid.

Bretzelburg

• King Ladislas of Bretzelburg, in the Spirou et Fantasio comic series.

Caledonia

• Queen Isabel, monarch of Caledonia in Scandal. During the episode Heavy Is the Head, she makes a state visit to the United States to negotiate with President Fitzgerald Grant the opening of a new naval base and arranges the assassination of Princess Emily after becoming pregnant during an affair with one of her security detail.
• Prince Richard becomes monarch of Caledonia in the Scandal episode Heavy Is the Head. After Olivia Pope reveals to him the role his mother played in his wife's death (having been originally hired to deal with press reaction to the incident), he forces her to abdicate on grounds of 'ill health'. He refuses to allow the United States to open a naval base in his kingdom.

Djelibeybi

• Pteppicymon XXVII, Teppic's father.
• Pteppicymon XXVIII (a.k.a. Teppic), the main character in Pyramids.
• Ptracia I, the half-sister of Teppic who implements numerous reforms to the old kingdom after her half-brother's abdication.

Drasselstein

• Charles Benson, one of the two main antagonists in the upcoming film The Overlord Movie.
• Serlina Benson, one of the two main antagonists in the upcoming film The Overlord Movie.

Equestria

• Princess Celestia, ruler of Equestria in the television series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
• Princess Luna, co-ruler of Equestria in the television series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

Genovia

• King Rupert Renaldi
• Queen Clarisse Renaldi
• Mia Thermopolis, in the book and films The Princess Diaries

Khemed

• Mohammed Ben Kalish Ezab is the reigning emir of the fictional Arabian country of Khemed in the Tintin comics, which appears to be located upon the Red Sea.

Kingdom of Khura'in

From the video game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Spirit of Justice

• Amara Sigatar Khura'in, was Queen until an attempted assassination was carried out on her by her sister, Ga'ran. Although she survived the assassination attempt, it was officially announced that she had died, resulting in Ga'ran taking her place as the Queen of Khura'in. In reality her life was being used to benefit her sister's malicious needs, including acting as leverage over her children and husband's lives for the next 20 plus years. She survives yet another attempt on her life by Ga'ran during the game's events.
• Ga'ran Sigatar Khura'in, became the Queen after her sister was supposedly "assassinated". She is best known for having formed the culture of Khura'in into one that displays a powerful prejudice towards defense attorneys, and ultimately leading an attorney genocide involving mass slaughter and imprisonment of Khura'in's lawyers. She is ultimately found to have never had an actual claim to the throne, and is found to be guilty of a multitude of charges.
• Rayfa Padma Khura'in, the daughter of Queen Amara and Dhurke Sahdmadhi, niece and adoptive daughter of Queen Ga'ran, and crown princess of Khura'in. As the next in line to the throne, she is to become the reigning Queen following the dethroning and subsequent arrest of her Ga'ran. However, due to her inability to as of yet channel spirits, which is a requirement for a monarch in Khura'in, a regent is temporarily appointed.
• Nahyuta Sahdmadhi, is the son of Queen Amara and Dhurke Sahdmadhi, and Queen Ga'ran's nephew. After Princess Rayfa ascends to the throne, he becomes regent due to his sister's as of yet incapability to become the ruling monarch.

Lancre

• My-God-He's-Heavy I is mentioned in Carpe Jugulum in relation to the Lancrastrian tradition of people being called exactly what the priest says at their Christening.
• Verence I was the King of Lancre in Wyrd Sisters whereupon he was murdered by his cousin, Duke Felmet.
• Duke Felmet was ruler of Lancre during the events of Wyrd Sisters during which time he mistreated both the land and his subjects.
• Verence II has been the King of Lancre since the events of Wyrd Sisters. The former court fool, he was crowned King after the refusal of Tomjon (Verence I's supposed heir) to become King at the expense of his acting career, on the grounds that they were half-brothers; this was understood to mean that their father was Verence I but believed by Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg to mean the former fool. Verence II rules the kingdom seriously (having learned that being a fool was no laughing matter). He is married to Magrat Garlick and has a daughter, Princess Esmeralda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre.

Narnia

• Aslan, the Great Lion
• Jadis, the usurper Witch Queen
• The kings and queens of old:
  • Peter Pevensie, known as "King Peter the Magnificent"
  • Susan Pevensie, known as "Queen Susan the Gentle"
  • Edmund Pevensie, known as "King Edmund the Just"
  • Lucy Pevensie, known as "Queen Lucy the Valiant"
• Miraz
• Caspian X

The Robo-Hungarian Empire

• Emperor Nikolai
  • In the Futurama episode The Prisoner of Benda, Bender attempts to steal Emperor Nikolai's crown with the aid of a consciousness switching machine built by Professor Farnsworth and Amy in order to avoid being identified. After the robbery goes wrong and he convinces Nikolai that he is a robot in a human's body, Bender manages to switch consciousness with him (in a robot wash bucket's body), planning to live like an emperor whilst Nikolai can live a free 'peasant' robot's life. However, this goes wrong when both Nikolai's wife and head of security plan to murder the Emperor and blame the burglar.

The Island of Sodor

Kingdom existed from 1099 to 1263.

• Sigmund, elected first king. Reigned 1099 to 1116.
• The last king was Andreas, who died in the Battle of Largs in 1263, along with his heir apparent, Peter.

Afterwards, the island became a Regency, and the last Regent, Sir Arnold de Normanby, was made Earl of Sodor by Henry IV of England. The surname was later altered to Norramby. In 1753, the Earldom was extinguished by attainder; but in 1873, after popular petition, Queen Victoria graciously restored the title to the rightful pretender, John Arnold Norramby. The Earls were active on the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster, and, as there is no Duke of Lancaster, the Earls were popularly, albeit nominally, called Dukes of Sodor. They were:

• John Arnold Norramby, 1st Duke of Sodor, reigned 1873 to 1894.
• Henry John Norramby, 2nd Duke of Sodor, reigned 1894 to 1915.
• Charles Henry Norramby, 3rd Duke of Sodor, reigned 1915 to 1941, and served in the First World War.
• Robert Charles Norramby, 4th Duke of Sodor, reigned 1941 to 1943, killed in action in the Second World War.
• Richard Robert Norramby, 5th Duke of Sodor, reigned since 1943, succeeded in his third year.

Both the 4th and 5th Dukes are mentioned in Duke The Lost Engine, while the 5th comes into Very Old Engines, where he opens the loop line of the Skarloey Railway.^[2]

Sto Lat and Sto Helit

• Olerve The Bastard, the King of Sto Lat assassinated on the orders of the Duke of Sto Helit in Mort.
• Kelirehenna I, originally Princess Keli, the daughter of Olerve the Bastard. In Mort, her assassination on the orders of the Duke of Sto Helit was meant to result in his ascension to the throne, the unification of Sto Lat and Sto Helit, the federation of the nations of the Sto Plains and a century of peace. However, after being saved by Mort, Death's human apprentice, she manages to ascend to throne after Death arranged for the timeline to be permanently altered.
• Mortimer Sto Helit, former apprentice to Death, is invested as the Duke of Sto Helit by Queen Kelirebenna as a reward for saving her life, after the previous Duke died after his lifetimer was destroyed in a fight between Mort and Death. Mort marries Death's adoptive daughter Ysabell and adopts the family motto Non Temitis Messor (Don't Fear The Reaper). Both he and Ysabell die in a carriage crash in Soul Music after refusing Death's offer of immortality.
• Susan Sto Helit has technically been the Duchess of Sto Helit since the death of her parents Mortimer and Ysabell Sto Helit in Soul Music but instead pursues a teaching career in Hogfather and Thief of Time and wishes to be referred to as 'Miss Susan'. She wishes simply to be normal despite having inherited many supernatural traits from her adoptive grandfather Death, such as the ability to walk through solid matter.

Syldavia

• Muskar XII is king of the fictional Balkan country of Syldavia in the eight volume of Tintin comics. Another Syldavian kings mentioned in the same volume are, among others, Muskar I, the fictional first king, and Ottokar IV, whose sceptre serves as the plot basis of it.

The Underground

• King Asgore Dreemurr (Undertale) of the Underground, the king of all monsters, ex-Husband of Toriel and the father of the game's primary antagonist. He is a benevolent, goat-like monster with a golden beard and white fur and speaks with a southern accent.

Wakanda

• T'Chaka, King of Wakanda in the Marvel Comic universe.
• T'Challa, son of King T'Chaka, Prince of Wakanda who becomes the Black Panther.

Yangdon

• Anand Wangchuk, the biological father of protagonist, Mikay Maghirang in the Philippine television series, Princess and I