This is a list of fictional monarchs – characters who appear in fiction as the monarchs (kings, queens, emperors, empresses, etc.) of real-life countries. They are listed by country, then according to the production or story in which they appeared.
Princess Georgiana of the fictional
British royal family, played by
Catherine Tate, becomes the monarch after her mother unexpectedly abdicates the
Australian throne in favour of her scandalous daughter, hoping to send her as far away from London as possible and make her someone else's problem.[1] The series also features her brother Prince Frederick, the
heir apparent to the British throne.
Crown Prince Leopold is the powerful and influential heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the 2006 film The Illusionist, although his father, the Emperor, is the actual reigning monarch.
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. (The story fictionally assumes that Bohemia was ruled by its own Kings, rather than the actual situation of its being part of the domains of the
Austro-Hungarian Emperor). There is also mentioned a "King of Scandinavia", a title which never existed in reality as the Scandinavian countries never united into a single realm, though
Sweden and Norway were in
personal union when the story was written.
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.
In the novel, 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.
Dom Pedro IV: In the Southern Victory series, he is the
Emperor of Brazil during the
First Great War, leading the country into war on the side of
Central Powers, cutting off supply lines between the Allied countries of Argentina and Britain and hastening the end of the war. Pedro IV's lineage and the status of slavery in Brazil are not addressed, whilst the continued existence of the
Brazilian Empire may be an indirect consequence of Confederate independence.
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.
During Horst Witzleben’s Seven O’Clock News, an unnamed
Tsar of Bulgaria is reported as welcoming the
Poglavnik of Croatia during a state visit. The unnamed Tsar is also one of many fascist puppet or sympathising heads of state to commiserate the death of the German Führer, Kurt Haldweim.
Prince Hector, the heir to the
Bulgarian throne, attends Balkan peace talks in
London but is kidnapped whilst under the protection of Detective Inspector Eli Rabbit and his team. His sister, Princess Juliana, is revealed to be the perpetrator of the kidnapping, wanting the Bulgarian throne for herself. She is also an expert sharpshooter and a member of the secret organization, 'the Vision'.
Emperor Ping is the
imperial ruler of the
Tang dynasty and the father of Princes Wan, Jai and Yu, who is in the place of Puyuan and takes Princess Phoenix to be his Empress in the 2006 Chinese film Curse of the Golden Flower.
Emperor Han was a Chinese warlord who succeeded in becoming the first
Emperor of China. However, his quest for
immortality ultimately led to his being cursed and entombed. He was later resurrected but was defeated by
Rick O'Connell and his son before he could extend his reach to enslave the Earth.
In the story "Foreign Devils" by
Walter Jon Williams, the Martians of
H. G. Wells's
War of The Worlds land in
Qing China, destroy
Beijing and cause widespread death and destruction throughout the country, but the
Guangxu Emperor survives by fleeing to a faraway province. In the aftermath the Emperor – whose plans for reform were foiled in actual history – takes advantage of the chaos to stage a bloody coup and establish himself strongly in power. He then the uses the disarray of
European powers, still recovering from the Martian invasion of their home territories, to shake off colonial tutlelage and make China a world power 50 years ahead of schedule. China in this history will remain a monarchy, there will be no
Chinese Republic nor a
Communist Chinese regime, and there will be many more new Emperors from among the progeny of the Guangxu Emperor.
In the HOI4 mod, The New Order: Last Days of Europe, he is the King of the Italian
client state of Croatia. Aimone found himself as the head of a nation which he had no love for. He didn't speak a word of
Croatian nor had he even ever been there, as he was picked simply because of his noble blood.
King Claudius murdered his brother King Hamlet to become the new monarch of
Denmark and to be married to
Queen Gertrude, Prince Hamlet's mother. He is loosely based on the Jutish chieftain
Feng.
In the HOI4 mod, Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg, he rules the
Kingdom of Finland and has significant power compared to other monarchs in the nearby regions.
He and the Finnish royal family visit the
United Kingdom shortly after King Ralph's accession to the British throne. The purpose of the visit is to arrange a royal marriage between Ralph and Princess Anna of
Finland and to negotiate the purchasing of off-shore drilling equipment following the discovery of oil reserves in the Baltic Sea. The arranged marriage is called off after King Gustav is given photographs showing Ralph with Miranda, an exotic dancer.
He is mentioned as the
Emperor of France reigning sometime around the 1930s with his scandalous personal life being gossiped about in American publications.
Napoleon VI is mentioned as the Emperor of France-outre-mer in an alternate 2025 where, in 1878, a
meteor shower known as 'The Fall' rendered the
Northern Hemisphere uninhabitable, forcing European metropolitan governments to evacuate to their colonies. France-outre-mer encompasses
French North Africa and reclaimed French, Spanish and Portuguese coastal territories, with its capital based in
Algiers. King-Emperor John II arranges the marriage of his daughter Sita to the heir to the throne of France-outre-mer, partly to establish an Anglo-French condominium over the Sultanate of Egypt and re-open the
Suez Canal. Although the regnal name was claimed by
Louis, Prince Napoléon, if he is based on a real person, the date would indicate this is either
Charles, Prince Napoléon or
Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon.
Following Charles XI's death, he is succeeded by Louis XIX. While he initially announced France's intention to continue to fight
Germany, he ultimately accepts capitulation. There is no equivalent son of
Alfonso Carlos, who died childless.
Jean XXIII is mentioned as the King of France in an alternate reality where Islamic
North Africa and the
Middle East constituted the modern, liberal First World, and Europe was a backward hotspot of Christian fundamentalist terrorism. Reigning during the fifteenth century
AH, his son the Dauphin is hospitalized during an
Aquinist attack on the funeral of Grand Duke Cosimo III of Italy.
As a result of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand never being assassinated, neither of the
world wars occur.
Germany remains a monarchy into the twenty-first century, with the unnamed Kaiser's niece Princess Elizabetha (named for
Elizabeth II) being engaged to be married to
Prince Harry.[2]
Wilhelm III (or Friedrich I of Germany and Friedrich Wilhelm V of Prussia)
In the Southern Victory series, he refuses to return Alsace-Lorraine to the new
Kingdom of France, which acts as the casus belli for the
Second Great War in Europe, during the course of which he authorizes the atomic bombings of
London,
Norwich,
Brighton,
Paris and
Petrograd.
In Curious Notions, he leads Germany during an analogue of the Second World War in the late 1930s, resulting in Germany becoming the dominant power in Europe.
Wilhelm IV: In Curious Notions, he leads Germany during the
Third World War circa 1956, during which numerous cities across the United States were devastated in nuclear blasts (
San Francisco only being spared due to a German nuclear bomber plane being shot down). A bronze statue of him is mentioned as being situated outside of the
San Francisco City Hall.
Succeeds his father in the HOI4 mod, Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg, in 1941, which was also the year of the real
Wilhelm II's death. He is a reactionary and favors a dictatorship of
Paul von Hindenburg and
Erich Ludendorff. Close to the anti-parliamenterist
Kurt von Schleicher. A rare path can see him become a Reichpräsident (similar to
Napoleon III before his
putsch).
A possible puppet Emperor if the overlord is not socialist. Also a possible head of state in rare scenarios, which include a restoration by
Max Bauer or him being a Reichpräsident like his father.
Stanley Owana Laanui and Cynthia 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 (an obscure but fictional member of the former
Hawaiian Royal Family) is installed as a puppet 'King of Hawaii'. He chooses Cynthia Laanui to be his consort.
Prince Pondicherry wants to rule
India in his own chocolate palace, rejecting
Willy Wonka's warning to eat it all before it melts. But despite his insistence, the prince's chocolate palace later melts on the hot sunny day. His name derives from the city of
Pondicherry.
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 restored Iranian monarchy may have been the result of several 'Iran Interventions' mentioned in The Disunited States of America.
Caliph Oman III is a benevolent ruler of Baghdad whose 13-year-old niece Princess Zeila performs her lovely songs with music performed by
snake charmer Amin.
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, the ascendency of the Catholic Church as a secular power preventing the
unification of Italy. In real life Naples had been united with
Sicily to form the
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. In 1976 there were two pretenders:
Charles (I) and
Ferdinand (IV).
Umberto III – In the alternate 2010 depicted in In the Presence of Mine Enemies,
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
Italian King is a figurehead but does hold influence in domestic politics. Possibly a version of
Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice, where the naming of his father and grandfather after their grandfathers continued and established something similar to Denmark's swapping between Fredericks and Christians.
Cosimo III – In the alternate timeline depicted in Through Darkest Europe, due to the adoption by
Thomas Aquinas and
Al-Ghazali of opposite positions regarding the compatibility of reason and religion than in real-life, Islamic
North Africa and the
Middle East are the "liberal, tolerant, and above all rich" First World whilst
Christian Europe is an impoverished hotspot of Christian fundamentalist terrorism. By the alternate fifteenth century
AH, Cosimo is the Grand Duke of Italy (except for Sicily, which is still under Maghrebi control) and is regarded as a strongman. He is killed by an Aquinist
suicide bomber. The name was used by the
House of Medici, which included several
Grand Dukes of Tuscany among whom there was a
Cosimo III.
Lorenzo III – Grand Duke of Italy in Through Darkest Europe, he succeeded his father Cosimo III.
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. However, with
Emperor Hirohito being killed during an air raid towards the end of the war, Hirohito's 12-year-old son
Akihito becomes the new emperor, although he is only a figure head, as it is
GeneralDwight D. Eisenhower who really runs the country.
King Maximilian – In the episode "Vaduz", the crew of MJN Air are hired to fly King Maximilian (played by
Kieran Hodgson) to Fitton. Unbeknownst to them, however, is the fact that Maximilian is a young boy, the
posthumous and 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 which his pilot, Captain Martin Crieff, says would not make him popular in the long-term (based on his own experiences). After Princess Theresa covers for Crieff for accidentally ordering too much fuel, the two begin dating.
In this alternate history, the
Roman Empire never fell and remained strong and powerful to the end the 21st century and beyond, eventually gaining firearms and developing a technology roughly similar to our 17th century. Eventually, the rival
Lietuvan Empire developed to its north and east (roughly similar to the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth). The two evenly matched empires were in permanent
cold war, sometimes turning hot. One such occasion was when King Kuzmickas of Lietuva mobilised his army and tried to conquer the city of
Polisso, capital of the Roman province of
Dacia. He placed the city under siege and came very close to capturing it, but in the end had to withdraw. The ceasefire was worked out by a young Roman emissary Ieremeo Soltero whose eloquence impressed the king.
In the HOI4 mod, Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg, Vytautas is a
German Catholic ruler whose
Kingdom of Lithuania is an extremely and ethnically divided
puppet state. He stands in the shadow of his popular father King
Mindaugas II, is pretty much a puppet of his ministers and despised by Lithuanian nationalists.[3]
He is a strict, lazy, paunchy and cowardly old
ring-tailed lemur who was the previous ruler of the Lemur Kingdom in the island of
Madagascar in the
Netflix animated series All Hail King Julien. He has been told by Masikura the
panther chameleon that he would get eaten by the
foosa, although the prophecy did not say that all of him would be bit. So he left his island and abdicated the throne in favor of his nephew, who became King Julien XIII of Madagascar. However, the original King Julien became devious as he returned to the island and tried to reclaim the throne from his nephew. In the end, he decided to give up his evil plans and start a new and better life.
He is the
Indian-accented ring-tailed lemur who has been a ruler of the Lemur Kingdom in Madagascar after his uncle's abdication, using mostly his delegation and charisma, and loves to throw a party with his subjects. In All Hail King Julien, Julien has been against not only his uncle but also his parents Princess Julienne and Prince Barty. He has his own royal advisor Maurice the
aye-aye and befriends Mort the
mouse lemur and four zoo animals,
Alex the Lion,
Marty The Zebra,
Melman the giraffe and
Gloria The Hippo, from
New York City. Julien even has his position passed down to Stevie, the
leaf-tailed gecko who forms part of his crown.
An unnamed Emperor of Mexico is mentioned in conversation between the castrati Mirabilis and Viaventosa. The nature of the
Mexican Empire is unclear, as the
Viceroyalty of New Spain also exists.
With the
War of Secession ending in a Confederate victory in 1862,
France and
Napoleon III is able to concentrate on
intervention in Mexico, winning the war and installing Maximilian I to the throne shortly afterwards. He would serve as the
Emperor of Mexico until at least 1880 and his dynasty he founded there would remain in power through the
Second Great War, relying on France and the Confederacy for protection from the wrath of the
United States. Maximilian's installation was a violation of the
Monroe Doctrine. The French and
Confederates prevented the U.S. from enforcing the doctrine, thus effectively shooting it between the eyes.
Maximilian II
He 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. Has no real-life equivalent since Maximilian I's marriage to
Charlotte of Belgium was childless by the time of his
death. He had adopted
Agustín and
Salvador Iturbide.
He served as the Emperor of Mexico after Francisco Jose 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 José II
He 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. Francisco José II was one of the few leaders of a Great Powers nation not forced to resign or abdicate after the alliance's defeat in the Second Great War.
In an alternative history equivalent of the year 1988, King Mahendra the white elephant is a decadent Indian usurper sitting the throne of a
Mongol Empire ruling all
Asia and all
Europe. Under his rule,
Christianity is suppressed. He has in his court a corps of female gladiators, adept at
martial arts and archery, who "fight like
Hashishin" and who speak a dialect of Chinese different from all those spoken in our reality.
In the
Season 26 episode "
The Princess Guide", the King of
Nigeria makes a
uranium deal with
Mr. Burns as with his daughter Princess Kemi staying in
Springfield. While he is doing so,
Homer Simpson is made to watch over Kemi at the apartment but later ends up taking her to see
Moe Szyslak. Though initially displeased with Kemi since he suspects her brother stole money from him, Moe befriends her and takes her on a journey across Springfield when Homer is arrested by
Chief Wiggum shortly after her disappearance. However, Homer gets angry when he finds that Moe has taken his job to guide the princess. And when Kemi kisses Moe, the
paparazzo takes a picture which is quickly viewed on the internet by the Nigerian King, leading him to decide not to sign the uranium deal with Burns. The King wants to punish Kemi for kissing Moe, but Homer urges him to let his daughter live her life as she wants, for which he accepts.
The reigning prince who rules the Sun-worshipping
Inca Empire in the
fourteenth volume of the Tintin comics. He resides in the hidden Temple of the Sun deep within the
Andes mountain range where he meets
Tintin and
Captain Haddock sent by a
Peruvian boy named Zorrino. The Prince also appears in the animated film adaptation, Tintin and the Temple of the Sun, where he is the father of Princess Maita.
He is the young, selfish, and callous ruler of the Inca Empire who loves to dance to the
groove every morning but has a sense of style and charm. Kuzco befriends a farmer and llama herder, Pacha, and eventually learns the meaning of friendship and generosity after he was transformed into a
llama by his former advisor and self-proclaimed sorceress Yzma (who attempted to poison him to claim the throne for herself) and her muscular but somewhat dimwitted henchman Kronk Pepikrankenitz. His name is a reference to the ancient city of
Cusco.
In the HOI4 mod, Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg, he is the fourth son of Kaiser
Wilhelm II who rules the
Kingdom of Poland but is hated by Polish nationalists and socialists alike, as he does not show real interest in the Polish nation.[3]
The unnamed King of
Portugal is mentioned as being in attendance at the funeral of Stephen III of England in 1976. In 1976 the real life pretender was
Duarte (II) Nuno, who died on Christmas Eve and was succeded by
Duarte (III) Pio.
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.
In the HOI4 mod, Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg, he is the
King of Portugal and the Algarves, ruling since 2 July 1932. Duarte is suspected to maintain relations with opposition members and old-guard monarchists from the Paiva Couceiro era, with the greater aim to achieve a "National Restoration" and to remove the Integralists from power.
Nicholas II meets up with the four
alien explorers Raf, Ari, Valmis and Dark at
Tsarskoe Selo in 1909. After his son Alexei falls and strikes his head on a desk, the aliens and the Tsar discuss the czarevitch's
haemophilia and after a finding out that his son lacks the protein in his blood and that he has the protein, agrees to a
blood transfusion with the help of Dark's machine. His son is cured within three days and results in nationwide rejoicing at this news and
Grigori Rasputin is thrown out the Palace by Imperial soldiers. Czar Nicholas is so boundlessly thankful for the aliens deed and arranges safe passage to
Spain for the Explorers, who are still being pursued by
American Marines. In addition, the Czar promises to seriously consider everything that Ari has told him about the possibility of a World War. However, with either
World War I or the
Russian Revolution occurring, Nicholas remained on the Russian throne until between 1918 and 1933.
With his haemophilia cured in 1909, Alexei grows up a healthy person. He succeed the Russian throne by 1933. During their 1933 tour of
Earth, which the four alien explorers undertake just prior to their departure from Earth, they are received by Alexei, who is now the Czar of Russia. During the encounter, Raf describes him as a "strapping young lad."
Grand Duke Nikolai is the de facto tsar of the
Russian Empire in 2025. By the alternate 2025 of the novel, the Empire is centered around
Samarkand and has adopted regressive religious practices such as ritualistic
cannibalism and worship of
Chernobog.
In 1914, when
Austria-Hungary issued a number of ultimata to
Serbia following the assassination of
Franz Ferdinand by a Serb in
Sarajevo, Nicholas II promised to support the
Serbs should they refuse the ultimata. They did, and Russia declared war on Austria-Hungary, which had declared war on Serbia.
The Great War followed. In 1917, Nicholas found himself facing a
Red Revolution, followed by a protracted
civil war, which resulted in Russia backing out of the
Great War. Ultimately, Nicholas and his supporters triumphed, and Nicholas remained emperor for the remainder of the 1920s and died in the early 1930s. The destruction resulting from the wars left Russia in such a poor state that in 1929 she was forced to suspend payment of a loan to Austria-Hungary. This caused a chain effect that led in turn to the
worldwide stock market crash of that year. Following his death, Nicholas was succeeded as Tsar by his younger brother, Michael II.
The Grand Duke succeeds his older brother, Nicholas II, as the
Tsar of Russia sometime in the early 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.
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.[4] The real Constantine renounced his rights to marry morganatically and Nicholas succeeded outright after the
Russian interregnum of 1825 caused by the renounciation not being made public before Alexander's death and causing the
Decembrist revolt.
In the comic book series, all mammals with a
Y chromosome with the exception of amateur escape artist Yorick Brown and his
Capuchin monkey, Ampersand died in an unexplained cataclysm on 17 July 2002. Vladimir Jr., the son of
Russian astronauts Ciba Weber and Vladimir conceived on the International Space Station, is the only other living male on Earth, having been born after the cataclysm. In the final issue Alas (#60), set six decades after the main tenure of the series, it is revealed that Vladimir became the Czar of Russia, by which time a cis-male population is re-established, albeit limited to thousands worldwide and consisting of clones of Yorick and men who died in the cataclysm.
In an alternate timeline where the
Confederate States won the '
War of Southern Independence', one consequence is the revitalization 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. The terrorist organization, the Grand Army, attempted to spare the
United States from an inevitable war between the Confederacy and the German Union by counterfeiting Spanish currency. An unnamed King is mentioned as ruling during the 1950s by an official investigating this.
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 center of the Spanish Empire to
Londres. In one of the book's episodes, the King and the entire Royal Family are killed by female warriors, masters of
Martial arts, which were unwisely brought in from an Alternate History timeline; however, the book's time-traveling protagonist manages to change history and avert the disaster.
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.
Jamie I's younger brother in the same mod. He is also featured in the HOI4 mod, The New Order: Last Days of Europe, where the collapse of the Iberian Union can have the
House of Bourbon restored.
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 real life pretender in 1976 was
Mehmed (VII) Abdulaziz.
In the HOI4 mod, Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg, he is the 37th
Sultan of the
Ottoman Empire, succeeding Sultan
Mehmed VI Vahideddin in 1926. Abdülmejid is known as being relatively uninterested in politics and more fascinated with the fine art. Because of that, he mostly acts as a purely constitutional monarch.
The Nazi expedition searching for the
Holy Grail is shown to have been equipped by an unnamed Sultan of
Hatay, in exchange for a
Rolls-Royce Phantom II. The fictionalized Hatay monarchy is stated as being a "Republic" in the film.
Osman VII – The Ottoman Empire (known as the Ottoman Republic in the film) remains intact into the 21st century as a result of
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk falling into a coma when he was seven years old and the
Turkish War of Independence never happening as a result. Osman VII is little more than a figurehead and a source of ridicule by foreign dignitaries.
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.
In an alternate timeline,
Imperial Germany became the dominant world power by 2096, following its victories in the 20th century's three world wars. The Ottoman Empire, having been Germany's loyal ally, survived to the end of the 21st century when the book's plot takes place, and probably beyond – though clearly subservient to Germany; the Germans prop up its government as they do with numerous other monarchies throughout the world. The Ottoman Sultan is among the many monarchs annually attending the
Kaiser in Berlin, in a glittering ceremony broadcast live worldwide.
U
The United Kingdom, England, Scotland and Ireland
2525
King 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.
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.
King Henry IX, in the short story "Refugee", is still the
Prince of Wales when Britain's first
spaceport opens on
Salisbury Plain. He stows away in a space freighter heading to Mars.
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. Emperor Albert and Empress Hilda's views on royal primogeniture are ironically reversed by their views of their daughter and son.
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 he cures Prince Herbert of his working class speech patterns by using rocket salad.
King
Edward VIIIalmost loses his throne over his relationship with
Wallis Simpson in 1936. However, the abdication is averted and he and Mrs. Simpson eventually marry. He remains King until his death in 1972, but is childless and thus is succeeded by his grand-nephew
Charles III.
Richard IV of England (and XII of
Scotland), a fictionalized version of
Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (one of the Princes in the Tower), played by
Brian Blessed. He reigned from 1485 to 1498, succeeding his 'kind and thoughtful' uncle,
Richard III. However,
Henry Tudor erased Richard IV's reign, the Yorkist victory during the
Wars of the Roses and Richard III's true nature from history after his belated succession to the throne. The regnal number for Scotland would be I in real-life, and this is also the Jacobite name for
Rupprecht of Bavaria.
Edmund the Blackadder, Richard IV's second son and the Duke of Edinburgh. He began a campaign to become King after being
told by three witches that he would so (having been mistaken for Henry Tudor). After being mortally wounded from torture, he rules as
King for thirty seconds after the entire court accidentally drank poisoned wine (which the Blackadder also drank).
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.
When Edmund Blackadder Esq. and
George, the Prince Regent swap identities in order to get the latter out of a duel with the
Duke of Wellington, Blackadder is saved by a cigarillo case presented by Wellington as a gift and the Prince Regent is shot by Wellington for impertinence when he reveals the ruse. The Prince Regent dies (although he first believed that he himself was saved by a cigarillo case but realized that he left it on the dresser) and Blackadder goes on to reign as George IV after
George III mistakes him for his son.
King in The Alteration by Kingsley Amis. Having died before the start of the novel, it opens with his state funeral at the St George Basilica at
Coverley, the ecclesiastical capital of England (superseding the secular capital in London) and the sight of the Holy Victory in the War of the English Succession.
He was presumably married to Winifred, mentioned as being the Queen Mother.
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.
Victor II, the grandson of Victor I and Queen Mary, ascended to the throne at the age of 10 in 1938 (his father, the Prince of Wales, having drowned in a yachting accident a year previously). Despite being a qualified physician, the British government prevents him from practicing medicine over fears of lawsuits. He is secretly married bigamously to Isabella, the Queen Consort and her secretary, Anona Fellowes, the latter being Princess Louise's birth mother.
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, namely voicing his support for greater democracy within the
Greater German Reich, which is the policy position of the leadership of the governing British Union of Fascists including Prime Minister Charles Lynton. His lineage is never addressed, but he might be
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester. The book mentions the
Union of South Africa as an independent ally of the Reich which continues to practice
Apartheid although 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 then-real-life Prince of Wales, the fictional Charles III is actually descended from
Edward VIII. After the novel's protagonists, Thomas Bushell and Samuel Stanley of the Royal American Mounted Police, save King Charles from two assassination attempts by the nativist, separatist terrorist organization, the Sons of Liberty, he knights them as Members of the Order of the Two Georges for their services.
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 as having reigned sometime in the 1970s, probably being the son of Edward VIII and the father or brother of Charles III.
Charles III, whose reign during the nineteen century saw the prevention of a United Kingdom encompassing the whole of the British Isles through two Anglo-Scottish War.
Joseph the Wizard
Peter the Brave
Charles IV, King of England and Wales, Protector of
Cornwall and
Scilly.
The 98th Emperor of the Holy Britannia Empire and father of the 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.
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.
Edward VII is the eldest son of George V, analogous with
Edward VIII. 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).
Elizabeth II is the eldest daughter of George VI, analogous with the real-life
Elizabeth II. Reigning from 1953 to 1963, she was assassinated by an American separatist whilst visiting
New York City during a walkabout.
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.
Queen Liz 10 – Played by
Sophie Okenedo, Elizabeth X is the ruler of the Starship UK in "
The Beast Below", referring 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. The
Commonwealth of Nations was mentioned as a contemporary institution.
The Queen fled to the Isle of Wight with the rest of the British Royal Family on the third day after The Change occurred. However, she died shortly there after in December 1998.
The real-life
Charles III (the
Prince of Wales at time of publication). He ascended the British throne following the death of his mother Elizabeth II in December 1998, Charles led the remnants of Britain through the early years after the Change. His knowledge of organic farming (which he had been experimenting with since the early 1980s) helped the survivors with their food problems. He later married an
Icelandic refugee, who was popularly blamed for manipulating him. In his later years he went insane and refused to have new elections for
parliament and instead ruled by royal decree, which eventually caused a rift between him and Nigel. After about a decade on the throne, he officially died in 2008 of a stroke but it was a common rumor that he was killed by his wife who wanted to assume power for herself and her infant son.
The real-life Prince of Wales. He became the King of Great Britain and
Emperor of the West following the death of his father and after defeating a coup by his stepmother. After the Change occurred in 1998, William went to serve in the
military. Nigel saved his life in a battle with pirates during this service. He personally led a "
crusade" against
Moorish pirates off the
Canary Islands and on his return was crowned Emperor of the West. Under his leadership the
British Empire was reborn. He tried unsuccessfully to convince Nigel to return to Britain by promising him wealth, land, and title. He would serve as king from 2008 until his death in a fox-hunting accident in 2039.
Charles IV
Fictional son of William V. Served as King of Great Britain and Emperor of the West from 2039 until his death in 2066.
Elizabeth III
Daughter of Charles IV. Served as the Queen of Great Britain and Empress of the West from 2066 to 2098.
In the episode "
All the Presidents' Heads", an unnamed
Queen of Great Britain,
North America (also called 'West Britannia') and 'two parking spaces in
Tokyo' reigns in the 31st century due to the Planet Express crew accidentally preventing the
American Revolution whilst trying to prevent counterfeiting by
Professor Farnsworth's ancestor,
David Farnsworth. 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.
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.
Queen Mousetoria (voiced by
Eve Brenner) is the mouse queen of England who has been nearly deposed by the evil Professor Ratigan but is rescued by Basil of Baker Street and Dr. Dawson.
Professor Padraic Ratigan (voiced by
Vincent Price) attempts to conquer England as a "supreme ruler of all Mousedom" with his toy robot that mimics the real Queen declaring it.
John II: The actor Jack Green (born John Albert Sandring), who is grandson of
Prince Albert Victor via a secret morganatic marriage and made king after the royal family is killed in a
dirigible accident during
George V's Silver Jubilee in 1935. After delivering his first Christmas Speech, in which he called on the Government to undertake radical action to reduce unemployment and thus overstepped his role as a constitutional monarch, he is forced to abdicate.
William V: Originally William Millingham, is the private secretary of John II, and as the descendant of
Queen Charlotte of Wurttemberg, becomes the new king after John's abdication.
John III: The son of William V and Anne, the Queen Consort. John III is his suggested regnal name, being only the ten-year-old
Prince of Wales in the story.
In the HOI4 mod, The New Order: Last Days of Europe, he was restored after the
Axis Victory and reigns the reduced Kingdom of England. He is also featured in the HOI4 mod, Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg.
In the same mod, she is the leader of the British Government in exile residing in
Canada (represented in the British Isles by Her Majesty's Most Loyal Resistance) and recognized by the monarchies within the Organization of Free Nations.
In the HOI4 mod, Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg, he can be crowned King over his older brother,
Albert, if their eldest brother Edward VIII abdicates
In the 2017 TV series Henry IX, King Henry IX of the
United Kingdom is 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 (owing to his lack of agency both in becoming and being King, his unhappy marriage and a monotonous series of trivial public engagements) and intends to abdicate during his Silver Jubilee. Queen Katarina (played by
Sally Phillips) stymies his plan by clandestinely leaking it to the press, wishing to remain Queen. After Alastair, the
Prince of Wales, comes out as
gay and creates a succession crisis (since no one other than the homophobic Duke of Cumberland would willingly become monarch), Henry IX retains the throne. However, almost immediately, his secret relationship with the royal florist is uncovered by the tabloid press.
Maurice I: The only son of
William III and
Mary II, he becomes king at the age of thirteen in 1702, born one year after the
Glorious Revolution. His birth and reign ensures that British monarchs would concurrently hold the title of Stadtholder of the
Dutch Republic.
William V: His reign saw the outbreak of the First American Rebellion in 1775 with rapprochement bringing about the creation of the Viceroyalty of North America in 1781.
Maurice II: Mentioned as being king sometime during the early-nineteenth century.
William VII: Adopts the titles Emperor of
North America and
Emperor of India following the Second American Rebellion and the Great Mutiny respectively.
Elizabeth IV: The namesake of a Regal Lines interstellar passenger liner.[9]
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. Critical of the Conservative government's social policies, he goes up against the utterly ruthless and unscrupulous Prime Minister
Francis Urquhart as an unofficial leader of the opposition but 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.
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 Americarebelled 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, presumably a son fictional son of Henry IX and I.
James V of England and X of Scotland.
James VI of England and XI of Scotland was the reigning monarch in 1926.
In an alternate reality where the
Darien scheme was successful, Scotland remained an independent country with its own colony of Caledonia in
Central America. Kenneth IV was mentioned as the
King of Scotland in 1905, conducting a royal visit to Caledonia during mounting calls for independence.[10]
Unbroken
Plantagenet Monarchs until the 19th Century.
In the GURPSrole-playing gameInfinite 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 King 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.
King Pascal I of the United Kingdom: Played by
John Malkovich, Sauvage is a French private prison entrepreneur who engineered his accession to the British throne in order to convert the entire United Kingdom into a giant prison facility.
Johnny English: Played by
Rowan Atkinson, he was accidentally crowned king. Abdicating after one day in favour of Queen Elizabeth II, English exchanged the throne for a knighthood.
Wyndham Family, the ruling House of the United Kingdom in the film, who are all electrocuted to death 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. One of the Wyndham princes had an affair with an American woman, which resulted in the birth of a son, who was Ralph's father.
Cedric I of the United Kingdom, played by
Peter O'Toole, took power after Ralph I abdicated the throne.
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.
Queen Victoria II, the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom during the 1980s, and married to Prince Arthur. She is forced to abdicate as a result of
leukaemia and consequent chemotherapy. She might be a stand-in for the real-life Elizabeth II, as both Edward VIII and George VI are mentioned as past monarchs.
King Richard IV, first son of Victoria II, and married to Queen Fiona Warwick. He became king after Victoria II abdicated, but was assassinated not long after along with his consort and parents by the
Provisional IRA.
King George VII, second son of Victoria II, and married to Anne Kitchener. His first son is Prince David Arthur Rupert George, nicknamed Prince DARG.
In the 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.
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.
In 2015 animated film Minions, Bob the Minion briefly takes over the crown from Queen
Elizabeth II in 1968 after accidentally crashing into the
Sword in the Stone and
pulling it free. He later abdicates the throne in favor of supervillain Scarlet.
Published in the early 1920s, The Moon Maid and The Moon Men envisioned a twentieth 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.
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".
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 Fanshaw ("Daphne") is his heir and succeeds him on the throne and becomes queen.
Deceased historian Edith Barrington (played by
Annette Crosbie) 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. Whilst conducting research for the biography, Edith becomes frustrated with the many revelations that official recorded histories were wildly incorrect. One example 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,
Catholiclesbian', personally believing that she was undone by her Catholicism.
Prior to his coronation, his sister Princess Eleanor (played by
Sophie Winkleman) attempted unsuccessfully to discredit him in order to claim the throne for herself, being exiled from court after questioning Richard's paternity.
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. After becoming a market for off-the-ration goods and being subsequently blockaded (albeit unsuccessfully),
Burgundy is readmitted into the United Kingdom.
In an alternate reality where the assassination of
Elizabeth I results in the suppression of
Protestantism and the ascendancy of the Catholic Church as a European and world power by the twentieth century, Charles the Good is the King of England and the nominal ruler of the
New World. In the story Corfe Gate, a regional rebellion led by Lady Eleanor breaks out during his reign.
Victoria II reigned from 1921 to 1942. Presumably the eldest surviving child of
George V, she was hedonistic, intelligent and sexually liberal with most of what defined her reign being 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. He was killed when the Imperial air yacht Garuda was hijacked and heavily damaged by the captain, a radical Afrikaner nationalist, in collaboration with the Russian Empire.
Charles III, the son of John II. Reigned from 2025 onwards.
The world is invaded by space parasites, capable of attaching themselves to the body of a human being and completely controlling him or her. The
President of the US implements a policy of ordering all
Americans to walk
naked, as the only way of ensuring they are not controlled by the invaders. The (unnamed) King of Britain wants to follow suit, but is prevented by the strong objections of the
Archbishop of Canterbury, leaving Britain in danger of being taken over.
While in route to a ball to convince
George III to liberalize 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 the King of Great Britain by popular demand,
Ireland and the British Empire 'especially America', acting as an absolutist despot. Samuel's dream ends when his firebrand daughter Mary leads a revolution against him.
King Simon Henstridge, played by
Vincent Regan, dies in Season 1.
Prince Cyrus Henstridge, Duke of York, played by
Jake Maskall, briefly succeeded Simon after his son, Robert, is thought to have been killed in a plane crash and his twin children Prince Liam and Princess Eleanor were deemed illegitimate.
King Robert Henstridge, played by
Max Brown, succeeded his father after revealing himself to be alive.
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.
Harold III (the uncrowned 'Prince of the Americas' and 'heir to the British throne') succeeded his father Thomas in 1995. He had been targeted in a plot involving a smear campaign and an assassination attempt by the Sheriff of San Francisco (that reality's Maximilian Arturo) to seize the Crown for himself. After being briefly kidnapped by the revolutionary Oakland Raiders, he is made aware of the Sheriff's deception and the true condition of the British States of America. He joins forces with the Raiders and the Sliders to denounce the Sheriff and introduce democracy via the implementation of a 'Second Magna Carta' (a version of the United States Constitution written from memory by the Sliders).
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.
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.
Lord William the Last is an arrogant monarch in 14th century Great Britain that is encountered by the protagonists when they travel through time. He tries to marry Queen Metapha and burn Rock and the crew of the Surprise at the stake.
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.
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.
In an alternate timeline accidentally created by
Clark Kent,
Lois Lane and
H. G. Wells in the episode "Soul Mates", Tempus was the King of America in 1996.
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 two centuries 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.
In the HOI4 mod, The New Order: Last Days of Europe, he is the
Emperor of Vietnam and holds no power of his own, acting as a tool for the
Empire of Japan's purposes.
This is a list of fictional monarchs – characters who appear in fiction as the monarchs (kings, queens, emperors, empresses, etc.) of real-life countries. They are listed by country, then according to the production or story in which they appeared.
Princess Georgiana of the fictional
British royal family, played by
Catherine Tate, becomes the monarch after her mother unexpectedly abdicates the
Australian throne in favour of her scandalous daughter, hoping to send her as far away from London as possible and make her someone else's problem.[1] The series also features her brother Prince Frederick, the
heir apparent to the British throne.
Crown Prince Leopold is the powerful and influential heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the 2006 film The Illusionist, although his father, the Emperor, is the actual reigning monarch.
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. (The story fictionally assumes that Bohemia was ruled by its own Kings, rather than the actual situation of its being part of the domains of the
Austro-Hungarian Emperor). There is also mentioned a "King of Scandinavia", a title which never existed in reality as the Scandinavian countries never united into a single realm, though
Sweden and Norway were in
personal union when the story was written.
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.
In the novel, 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.
Dom Pedro IV: In the Southern Victory series, he is the
Emperor of Brazil during the
First Great War, leading the country into war on the side of
Central Powers, cutting off supply lines between the Allied countries of Argentina and Britain and hastening the end of the war. Pedro IV's lineage and the status of slavery in Brazil are not addressed, whilst the continued existence of the
Brazilian Empire may be an indirect consequence of Confederate independence.
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.
During Horst Witzleben’s Seven O’Clock News, an unnamed
Tsar of Bulgaria is reported as welcoming the
Poglavnik of Croatia during a state visit. The unnamed Tsar is also one of many fascist puppet or sympathising heads of state to commiserate the death of the German Führer, Kurt Haldweim.
Prince Hector, the heir to the
Bulgarian throne, attends Balkan peace talks in
London but is kidnapped whilst under the protection of Detective Inspector Eli Rabbit and his team. His sister, Princess Juliana, is revealed to be the perpetrator of the kidnapping, wanting the Bulgarian throne for herself. She is also an expert sharpshooter and a member of the secret organization, 'the Vision'.
Emperor Ping is the
imperial ruler of the
Tang dynasty and the father of Princes Wan, Jai and Yu, who is in the place of Puyuan and takes Princess Phoenix to be his Empress in the 2006 Chinese film Curse of the Golden Flower.
Emperor Han was a Chinese warlord who succeeded in becoming the first
Emperor of China. However, his quest for
immortality ultimately led to his being cursed and entombed. He was later resurrected but was defeated by
Rick O'Connell and his son before he could extend his reach to enslave the Earth.
In the story "Foreign Devils" by
Walter Jon Williams, the Martians of
H. G. Wells's
War of The Worlds land in
Qing China, destroy
Beijing and cause widespread death and destruction throughout the country, but the
Guangxu Emperor survives by fleeing to a faraway province. In the aftermath the Emperor – whose plans for reform were foiled in actual history – takes advantage of the chaos to stage a bloody coup and establish himself strongly in power. He then the uses the disarray of
European powers, still recovering from the Martian invasion of their home territories, to shake off colonial tutlelage and make China a world power 50 years ahead of schedule. China in this history will remain a monarchy, there will be no
Chinese Republic nor a
Communist Chinese regime, and there will be many more new Emperors from among the progeny of the Guangxu Emperor.
In the HOI4 mod, The New Order: Last Days of Europe, he is the King of the Italian
client state of Croatia. Aimone found himself as the head of a nation which he had no love for. He didn't speak a word of
Croatian nor had he even ever been there, as he was picked simply because of his noble blood.
King Claudius murdered his brother King Hamlet to become the new monarch of
Denmark and to be married to
Queen Gertrude, Prince Hamlet's mother. He is loosely based on the Jutish chieftain
Feng.
In the HOI4 mod, Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg, he rules the
Kingdom of Finland and has significant power compared to other monarchs in the nearby regions.
He and the Finnish royal family visit the
United Kingdom shortly after King Ralph's accession to the British throne. The purpose of the visit is to arrange a royal marriage between Ralph and Princess Anna of
Finland and to negotiate the purchasing of off-shore drilling equipment following the discovery of oil reserves in the Baltic Sea. The arranged marriage is called off after King Gustav is given photographs showing Ralph with Miranda, an exotic dancer.
He is mentioned as the
Emperor of France reigning sometime around the 1930s with his scandalous personal life being gossiped about in American publications.
Napoleon VI is mentioned as the Emperor of France-outre-mer in an alternate 2025 where, in 1878, a
meteor shower known as 'The Fall' rendered the
Northern Hemisphere uninhabitable, forcing European metropolitan governments to evacuate to their colonies. France-outre-mer encompasses
French North Africa and reclaimed French, Spanish and Portuguese coastal territories, with its capital based in
Algiers. King-Emperor John II arranges the marriage of his daughter Sita to the heir to the throne of France-outre-mer, partly to establish an Anglo-French condominium over the Sultanate of Egypt and re-open the
Suez Canal. Although the regnal name was claimed by
Louis, Prince Napoléon, if he is based on a real person, the date would indicate this is either
Charles, Prince Napoléon or
Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon.
Following Charles XI's death, he is succeeded by Louis XIX. While he initially announced France's intention to continue to fight
Germany, he ultimately accepts capitulation. There is no equivalent son of
Alfonso Carlos, who died childless.
Jean XXIII is mentioned as the King of France in an alternate reality where Islamic
North Africa and the
Middle East constituted the modern, liberal First World, and Europe was a backward hotspot of Christian fundamentalist terrorism. Reigning during the fifteenth century
AH, his son the Dauphin is hospitalized during an
Aquinist attack on the funeral of Grand Duke Cosimo III of Italy.
As a result of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand never being assassinated, neither of the
world wars occur.
Germany remains a monarchy into the twenty-first century, with the unnamed Kaiser's niece Princess Elizabetha (named for
Elizabeth II) being engaged to be married to
Prince Harry.[2]
Wilhelm III (or Friedrich I of Germany and Friedrich Wilhelm V of Prussia)
In the Southern Victory series, he refuses to return Alsace-Lorraine to the new
Kingdom of France, which acts as the casus belli for the
Second Great War in Europe, during the course of which he authorizes the atomic bombings of
London,
Norwich,
Brighton,
Paris and
Petrograd.
In Curious Notions, he leads Germany during an analogue of the Second World War in the late 1930s, resulting in Germany becoming the dominant power in Europe.
Wilhelm IV: In Curious Notions, he leads Germany during the
Third World War circa 1956, during which numerous cities across the United States were devastated in nuclear blasts (
San Francisco only being spared due to a German nuclear bomber plane being shot down). A bronze statue of him is mentioned as being situated outside of the
San Francisco City Hall.
Succeeds his father in the HOI4 mod, Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg, in 1941, which was also the year of the real
Wilhelm II's death. He is a reactionary and favors a dictatorship of
Paul von Hindenburg and
Erich Ludendorff. Close to the anti-parliamenterist
Kurt von Schleicher. A rare path can see him become a Reichpräsident (similar to
Napoleon III before his
putsch).
A possible puppet Emperor if the overlord is not socialist. Also a possible head of state in rare scenarios, which include a restoration by
Max Bauer or him being a Reichpräsident like his father.
Stanley Owana Laanui and Cynthia 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 (an obscure but fictional member of the former
Hawaiian Royal Family) is installed as a puppet 'King of Hawaii'. He chooses Cynthia Laanui to be his consort.
Prince Pondicherry wants to rule
India in his own chocolate palace, rejecting
Willy Wonka's warning to eat it all before it melts. But despite his insistence, the prince's chocolate palace later melts on the hot sunny day. His name derives from the city of
Pondicherry.
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 restored Iranian monarchy may have been the result of several 'Iran Interventions' mentioned in The Disunited States of America.
Caliph Oman III is a benevolent ruler of Baghdad whose 13-year-old niece Princess Zeila performs her lovely songs with music performed by
snake charmer Amin.
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, the ascendency of the Catholic Church as a secular power preventing the
unification of Italy. In real life Naples had been united with
Sicily to form the
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. In 1976 there were two pretenders:
Charles (I) and
Ferdinand (IV).
Umberto III – In the alternate 2010 depicted in In the Presence of Mine Enemies,
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
Italian King is a figurehead but does hold influence in domestic politics. Possibly a version of
Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice, where the naming of his father and grandfather after their grandfathers continued and established something similar to Denmark's swapping between Fredericks and Christians.
Cosimo III – In the alternate timeline depicted in Through Darkest Europe, due to the adoption by
Thomas Aquinas and
Al-Ghazali of opposite positions regarding the compatibility of reason and religion than in real-life, Islamic
North Africa and the
Middle East are the "liberal, tolerant, and above all rich" First World whilst
Christian Europe is an impoverished hotspot of Christian fundamentalist terrorism. By the alternate fifteenth century
AH, Cosimo is the Grand Duke of Italy (except for Sicily, which is still under Maghrebi control) and is regarded as a strongman. He is killed by an Aquinist
suicide bomber. The name was used by the
House of Medici, which included several
Grand Dukes of Tuscany among whom there was a
Cosimo III.
Lorenzo III – Grand Duke of Italy in Through Darkest Europe, he succeeded his father Cosimo III.
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. However, with
Emperor Hirohito being killed during an air raid towards the end of the war, Hirohito's 12-year-old son
Akihito becomes the new emperor, although he is only a figure head, as it is
GeneralDwight D. Eisenhower who really runs the country.
King Maximilian – In the episode "Vaduz", the crew of MJN Air are hired to fly King Maximilian (played by
Kieran Hodgson) to Fitton. Unbeknownst to them, however, is the fact that Maximilian is a young boy, the
posthumous and 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 which his pilot, Captain Martin Crieff, says would not make him popular in the long-term (based on his own experiences). After Princess Theresa covers for Crieff for accidentally ordering too much fuel, the two begin dating.
In this alternate history, the
Roman Empire never fell and remained strong and powerful to the end the 21st century and beyond, eventually gaining firearms and developing a technology roughly similar to our 17th century. Eventually, the rival
Lietuvan Empire developed to its north and east (roughly similar to the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth). The two evenly matched empires were in permanent
cold war, sometimes turning hot. One such occasion was when King Kuzmickas of Lietuva mobilised his army and tried to conquer the city of
Polisso, capital of the Roman province of
Dacia. He placed the city under siege and came very close to capturing it, but in the end had to withdraw. The ceasefire was worked out by a young Roman emissary Ieremeo Soltero whose eloquence impressed the king.
In the HOI4 mod, Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg, Vytautas is a
German Catholic ruler whose
Kingdom of Lithuania is an extremely and ethnically divided
puppet state. He stands in the shadow of his popular father King
Mindaugas II, is pretty much a puppet of his ministers and despised by Lithuanian nationalists.[3]
He is a strict, lazy, paunchy and cowardly old
ring-tailed lemur who was the previous ruler of the Lemur Kingdom in the island of
Madagascar in the
Netflix animated series All Hail King Julien. He has been told by Masikura the
panther chameleon that he would get eaten by the
foosa, although the prophecy did not say that all of him would be bit. So he left his island and abdicated the throne in favor of his nephew, who became King Julien XIII of Madagascar. However, the original King Julien became devious as he returned to the island and tried to reclaim the throne from his nephew. In the end, he decided to give up his evil plans and start a new and better life.
He is the
Indian-accented ring-tailed lemur who has been a ruler of the Lemur Kingdom in Madagascar after his uncle's abdication, using mostly his delegation and charisma, and loves to throw a party with his subjects. In All Hail King Julien, Julien has been against not only his uncle but also his parents Princess Julienne and Prince Barty. He has his own royal advisor Maurice the
aye-aye and befriends Mort the
mouse lemur and four zoo animals,
Alex the Lion,
Marty The Zebra,
Melman the giraffe and
Gloria The Hippo, from
New York City. Julien even has his position passed down to Stevie, the
leaf-tailed gecko who forms part of his crown.
An unnamed Emperor of Mexico is mentioned in conversation between the castrati Mirabilis and Viaventosa. The nature of the
Mexican Empire is unclear, as the
Viceroyalty of New Spain also exists.
With the
War of Secession ending in a Confederate victory in 1862,
France and
Napoleon III is able to concentrate on
intervention in Mexico, winning the war and installing Maximilian I to the throne shortly afterwards. He would serve as the
Emperor of Mexico until at least 1880 and his dynasty he founded there would remain in power through the
Second Great War, relying on France and the Confederacy for protection from the wrath of the
United States. Maximilian's installation was a violation of the
Monroe Doctrine. The French and
Confederates prevented the U.S. from enforcing the doctrine, thus effectively shooting it between the eyes.
Maximilian II
He 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. Has no real-life equivalent since Maximilian I's marriage to
Charlotte of Belgium was childless by the time of his
death. He had adopted
Agustín and
Salvador Iturbide.
He served as the Emperor of Mexico after Francisco Jose 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 José II
He 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. Francisco José II was one of the few leaders of a Great Powers nation not forced to resign or abdicate after the alliance's defeat in the Second Great War.
In an alternative history equivalent of the year 1988, King Mahendra the white elephant is a decadent Indian usurper sitting the throne of a
Mongol Empire ruling all
Asia and all
Europe. Under his rule,
Christianity is suppressed. He has in his court a corps of female gladiators, adept at
martial arts and archery, who "fight like
Hashishin" and who speak a dialect of Chinese different from all those spoken in our reality.
In the
Season 26 episode "
The Princess Guide", the King of
Nigeria makes a
uranium deal with
Mr. Burns as with his daughter Princess Kemi staying in
Springfield. While he is doing so,
Homer Simpson is made to watch over Kemi at the apartment but later ends up taking her to see
Moe Szyslak. Though initially displeased with Kemi since he suspects her brother stole money from him, Moe befriends her and takes her on a journey across Springfield when Homer is arrested by
Chief Wiggum shortly after her disappearance. However, Homer gets angry when he finds that Moe has taken his job to guide the princess. And when Kemi kisses Moe, the
paparazzo takes a picture which is quickly viewed on the internet by the Nigerian King, leading him to decide not to sign the uranium deal with Burns. The King wants to punish Kemi for kissing Moe, but Homer urges him to let his daughter live her life as she wants, for which he accepts.
The reigning prince who rules the Sun-worshipping
Inca Empire in the
fourteenth volume of the Tintin comics. He resides in the hidden Temple of the Sun deep within the
Andes mountain range where he meets
Tintin and
Captain Haddock sent by a
Peruvian boy named Zorrino. The Prince also appears in the animated film adaptation, Tintin and the Temple of the Sun, where he is the father of Princess Maita.
He is the young, selfish, and callous ruler of the Inca Empire who loves to dance to the
groove every morning but has a sense of style and charm. Kuzco befriends a farmer and llama herder, Pacha, and eventually learns the meaning of friendship and generosity after he was transformed into a
llama by his former advisor and self-proclaimed sorceress Yzma (who attempted to poison him to claim the throne for herself) and her muscular but somewhat dimwitted henchman Kronk Pepikrankenitz. His name is a reference to the ancient city of
Cusco.
In the HOI4 mod, Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg, he is the fourth son of Kaiser
Wilhelm II who rules the
Kingdom of Poland but is hated by Polish nationalists and socialists alike, as he does not show real interest in the Polish nation.[3]
The unnamed King of
Portugal is mentioned as being in attendance at the funeral of Stephen III of England in 1976. In 1976 the real life pretender was
Duarte (II) Nuno, who died on Christmas Eve and was succeded by
Duarte (III) Pio.
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.
In the HOI4 mod, Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg, he is the
King of Portugal and the Algarves, ruling since 2 July 1932. Duarte is suspected to maintain relations with opposition members and old-guard monarchists from the Paiva Couceiro era, with the greater aim to achieve a "National Restoration" and to remove the Integralists from power.
Nicholas II meets up with the four
alien explorers Raf, Ari, Valmis and Dark at
Tsarskoe Selo in 1909. After his son Alexei falls and strikes his head on a desk, the aliens and the Tsar discuss the czarevitch's
haemophilia and after a finding out that his son lacks the protein in his blood and that he has the protein, agrees to a
blood transfusion with the help of Dark's machine. His son is cured within three days and results in nationwide rejoicing at this news and
Grigori Rasputin is thrown out the Palace by Imperial soldiers. Czar Nicholas is so boundlessly thankful for the aliens deed and arranges safe passage to
Spain for the Explorers, who are still being pursued by
American Marines. In addition, the Czar promises to seriously consider everything that Ari has told him about the possibility of a World War. However, with either
World War I or the
Russian Revolution occurring, Nicholas remained on the Russian throne until between 1918 and 1933.
With his haemophilia cured in 1909, Alexei grows up a healthy person. He succeed the Russian throne by 1933. During their 1933 tour of
Earth, which the four alien explorers undertake just prior to their departure from Earth, they are received by Alexei, who is now the Czar of Russia. During the encounter, Raf describes him as a "strapping young lad."
Grand Duke Nikolai is the de facto tsar of the
Russian Empire in 2025. By the alternate 2025 of the novel, the Empire is centered around
Samarkand and has adopted regressive religious practices such as ritualistic
cannibalism and worship of
Chernobog.
In 1914, when
Austria-Hungary issued a number of ultimata to
Serbia following the assassination of
Franz Ferdinand by a Serb in
Sarajevo, Nicholas II promised to support the
Serbs should they refuse the ultimata. They did, and Russia declared war on Austria-Hungary, which had declared war on Serbia.
The Great War followed. In 1917, Nicholas found himself facing a
Red Revolution, followed by a protracted
civil war, which resulted in Russia backing out of the
Great War. Ultimately, Nicholas and his supporters triumphed, and Nicholas remained emperor for the remainder of the 1920s and died in the early 1930s. The destruction resulting from the wars left Russia in such a poor state that in 1929 she was forced to suspend payment of a loan to Austria-Hungary. This caused a chain effect that led in turn to the
worldwide stock market crash of that year. Following his death, Nicholas was succeeded as Tsar by his younger brother, Michael II.
The Grand Duke succeeds his older brother, Nicholas II, as the
Tsar of Russia sometime in the early 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.
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.[4] The real Constantine renounced his rights to marry morganatically and Nicholas succeeded outright after the
Russian interregnum of 1825 caused by the renounciation not being made public before Alexander's death and causing the
Decembrist revolt.
In the comic book series, all mammals with a
Y chromosome with the exception of amateur escape artist Yorick Brown and his
Capuchin monkey, Ampersand died in an unexplained cataclysm on 17 July 2002. Vladimir Jr., the son of
Russian astronauts Ciba Weber and Vladimir conceived on the International Space Station, is the only other living male on Earth, having been born after the cataclysm. In the final issue Alas (#60), set six decades after the main tenure of the series, it is revealed that Vladimir became the Czar of Russia, by which time a cis-male population is re-established, albeit limited to thousands worldwide and consisting of clones of Yorick and men who died in the cataclysm.
In an alternate timeline where the
Confederate States won the '
War of Southern Independence', one consequence is the revitalization 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. The terrorist organization, the Grand Army, attempted to spare the
United States from an inevitable war between the Confederacy and the German Union by counterfeiting Spanish currency. An unnamed King is mentioned as ruling during the 1950s by an official investigating this.
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 center of the Spanish Empire to
Londres. In one of the book's episodes, the King and the entire Royal Family are killed by female warriors, masters of
Martial arts, which were unwisely brought in from an Alternate History timeline; however, the book's time-traveling protagonist manages to change history and avert the disaster.
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.
Jamie I's younger brother in the same mod. He is also featured in the HOI4 mod, The New Order: Last Days of Europe, where the collapse of the Iberian Union can have the
House of Bourbon restored.
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 real life pretender in 1976 was
Mehmed (VII) Abdulaziz.
In the HOI4 mod, Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg, he is the 37th
Sultan of the
Ottoman Empire, succeeding Sultan
Mehmed VI Vahideddin in 1926. Abdülmejid is known as being relatively uninterested in politics and more fascinated with the fine art. Because of that, he mostly acts as a purely constitutional monarch.
The Nazi expedition searching for the
Holy Grail is shown to have been equipped by an unnamed Sultan of
Hatay, in exchange for a
Rolls-Royce Phantom II. The fictionalized Hatay monarchy is stated as being a "Republic" in the film.
Osman VII – The Ottoman Empire (known as the Ottoman Republic in the film) remains intact into the 21st century as a result of
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk falling into a coma when he was seven years old and the
Turkish War of Independence never happening as a result. Osman VII is little more than a figurehead and a source of ridicule by foreign dignitaries.
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.
In an alternate timeline,
Imperial Germany became the dominant world power by 2096, following its victories in the 20th century's three world wars. The Ottoman Empire, having been Germany's loyal ally, survived to the end of the 21st century when the book's plot takes place, and probably beyond – though clearly subservient to Germany; the Germans prop up its government as they do with numerous other monarchies throughout the world. The Ottoman Sultan is among the many monarchs annually attending the
Kaiser in Berlin, in a glittering ceremony broadcast live worldwide.
U
The United Kingdom, England, Scotland and Ireland
2525
King 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.
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.
King Henry IX, in the short story "Refugee", is still the
Prince of Wales when Britain's first
spaceport opens on
Salisbury Plain. He stows away in a space freighter heading to Mars.
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. Emperor Albert and Empress Hilda's views on royal primogeniture are ironically reversed by their views of their daughter and son.
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 he cures Prince Herbert of his working class speech patterns by using rocket salad.
King
Edward VIIIalmost loses his throne over his relationship with
Wallis Simpson in 1936. However, the abdication is averted and he and Mrs. Simpson eventually marry. He remains King until his death in 1972, but is childless and thus is succeeded by his grand-nephew
Charles III.
Richard IV of England (and XII of
Scotland), a fictionalized version of
Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (one of the Princes in the Tower), played by
Brian Blessed. He reigned from 1485 to 1498, succeeding his 'kind and thoughtful' uncle,
Richard III. However,
Henry Tudor erased Richard IV's reign, the Yorkist victory during the
Wars of the Roses and Richard III's true nature from history after his belated succession to the throne. The regnal number for Scotland would be I in real-life, and this is also the Jacobite name for
Rupprecht of Bavaria.
Edmund the Blackadder, Richard IV's second son and the Duke of Edinburgh. He began a campaign to become King after being
told by three witches that he would so (having been mistaken for Henry Tudor). After being mortally wounded from torture, he rules as
King for thirty seconds after the entire court accidentally drank poisoned wine (which the Blackadder also drank).
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.
When Edmund Blackadder Esq. and
George, the Prince Regent swap identities in order to get the latter out of a duel with the
Duke of Wellington, Blackadder is saved by a cigarillo case presented by Wellington as a gift and the Prince Regent is shot by Wellington for impertinence when he reveals the ruse. The Prince Regent dies (although he first believed that he himself was saved by a cigarillo case but realized that he left it on the dresser) and Blackadder goes on to reign as George IV after
George III mistakes him for his son.
King in The Alteration by Kingsley Amis. Having died before the start of the novel, it opens with his state funeral at the St George Basilica at
Coverley, the ecclesiastical capital of England (superseding the secular capital in London) and the sight of the Holy Victory in the War of the English Succession.
He was presumably married to Winifred, mentioned as being the Queen Mother.
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.
Victor II, the grandson of Victor I and Queen Mary, ascended to the throne at the age of 10 in 1938 (his father, the Prince of Wales, having drowned in a yachting accident a year previously). Despite being a qualified physician, the British government prevents him from practicing medicine over fears of lawsuits. He is secretly married bigamously to Isabella, the Queen Consort and her secretary, Anona Fellowes, the latter being Princess Louise's birth mother.
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, namely voicing his support for greater democracy within the
Greater German Reich, which is the policy position of the leadership of the governing British Union of Fascists including Prime Minister Charles Lynton. His lineage is never addressed, but he might be
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester. The book mentions the
Union of South Africa as an independent ally of the Reich which continues to practice
Apartheid although 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 then-real-life Prince of Wales, the fictional Charles III is actually descended from
Edward VIII. After the novel's protagonists, Thomas Bushell and Samuel Stanley of the Royal American Mounted Police, save King Charles from two assassination attempts by the nativist, separatist terrorist organization, the Sons of Liberty, he knights them as Members of the Order of the Two Georges for their services.
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 as having reigned sometime in the 1970s, probably being the son of Edward VIII and the father or brother of Charles III.
Charles III, whose reign during the nineteen century saw the prevention of a United Kingdom encompassing the whole of the British Isles through two Anglo-Scottish War.
Joseph the Wizard
Peter the Brave
Charles IV, King of England and Wales, Protector of
Cornwall and
Scilly.
The 98th Emperor of the Holy Britannia Empire and father of the 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.
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.
Edward VII is the eldest son of George V, analogous with
Edward VIII. 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).
Elizabeth II is the eldest daughter of George VI, analogous with the real-life
Elizabeth II. Reigning from 1953 to 1963, she was assassinated by an American separatist whilst visiting
New York City during a walkabout.
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.
Queen Liz 10 – Played by
Sophie Okenedo, Elizabeth X is the ruler of the Starship UK in "
The Beast Below", referring 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. The
Commonwealth of Nations was mentioned as a contemporary institution.
The Queen fled to the Isle of Wight with the rest of the British Royal Family on the third day after The Change occurred. However, she died shortly there after in December 1998.
The real-life
Charles III (the
Prince of Wales at time of publication). He ascended the British throne following the death of his mother Elizabeth II in December 1998, Charles led the remnants of Britain through the early years after the Change. His knowledge of organic farming (which he had been experimenting with since the early 1980s) helped the survivors with their food problems. He later married an
Icelandic refugee, who was popularly blamed for manipulating him. In his later years he went insane and refused to have new elections for
parliament and instead ruled by royal decree, which eventually caused a rift between him and Nigel. After about a decade on the throne, he officially died in 2008 of a stroke but it was a common rumor that he was killed by his wife who wanted to assume power for herself and her infant son.
The real-life Prince of Wales. He became the King of Great Britain and
Emperor of the West following the death of his father and after defeating a coup by his stepmother. After the Change occurred in 1998, William went to serve in the
military. Nigel saved his life in a battle with pirates during this service. He personally led a "
crusade" against
Moorish pirates off the
Canary Islands and on his return was crowned Emperor of the West. Under his leadership the
British Empire was reborn. He tried unsuccessfully to convince Nigel to return to Britain by promising him wealth, land, and title. He would serve as king from 2008 until his death in a fox-hunting accident in 2039.
Charles IV
Fictional son of William V. Served as King of Great Britain and Emperor of the West from 2039 until his death in 2066.
Elizabeth III
Daughter of Charles IV. Served as the Queen of Great Britain and Empress of the West from 2066 to 2098.
In the episode "
All the Presidents' Heads", an unnamed
Queen of Great Britain,
North America (also called 'West Britannia') and 'two parking spaces in
Tokyo' reigns in the 31st century due to the Planet Express crew accidentally preventing the
American Revolution whilst trying to prevent counterfeiting by
Professor Farnsworth's ancestor,
David Farnsworth. 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.
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.
Queen Mousetoria (voiced by
Eve Brenner) is the mouse queen of England who has been nearly deposed by the evil Professor Ratigan but is rescued by Basil of Baker Street and Dr. Dawson.
Professor Padraic Ratigan (voiced by
Vincent Price) attempts to conquer England as a "supreme ruler of all Mousedom" with his toy robot that mimics the real Queen declaring it.
John II: The actor Jack Green (born John Albert Sandring), who is grandson of
Prince Albert Victor via a secret morganatic marriage and made king after the royal family is killed in a
dirigible accident during
George V's Silver Jubilee in 1935. After delivering his first Christmas Speech, in which he called on the Government to undertake radical action to reduce unemployment and thus overstepped his role as a constitutional monarch, he is forced to abdicate.
William V: Originally William Millingham, is the private secretary of John II, and as the descendant of
Queen Charlotte of Wurttemberg, becomes the new king after John's abdication.
John III: The son of William V and Anne, the Queen Consort. John III is his suggested regnal name, being only the ten-year-old
Prince of Wales in the story.
In the HOI4 mod, The New Order: Last Days of Europe, he was restored after the
Axis Victory and reigns the reduced Kingdom of England. He is also featured in the HOI4 mod, Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg.
In the same mod, she is the leader of the British Government in exile residing in
Canada (represented in the British Isles by Her Majesty's Most Loyal Resistance) and recognized by the monarchies within the Organization of Free Nations.
In the HOI4 mod, Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg, he can be crowned King over his older brother,
Albert, if their eldest brother Edward VIII abdicates
In the 2017 TV series Henry IX, King Henry IX of the
United Kingdom is 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 (owing to his lack of agency both in becoming and being King, his unhappy marriage and a monotonous series of trivial public engagements) and intends to abdicate during his Silver Jubilee. Queen Katarina (played by
Sally Phillips) stymies his plan by clandestinely leaking it to the press, wishing to remain Queen. After Alastair, the
Prince of Wales, comes out as
gay and creates a succession crisis (since no one other than the homophobic Duke of Cumberland would willingly become monarch), Henry IX retains the throne. However, almost immediately, his secret relationship with the royal florist is uncovered by the tabloid press.
Maurice I: The only son of
William III and
Mary II, he becomes king at the age of thirteen in 1702, born one year after the
Glorious Revolution. His birth and reign ensures that British monarchs would concurrently hold the title of Stadtholder of the
Dutch Republic.
William V: His reign saw the outbreak of the First American Rebellion in 1775 with rapprochement bringing about the creation of the Viceroyalty of North America in 1781.
Maurice II: Mentioned as being king sometime during the early-nineteenth century.
William VII: Adopts the titles Emperor of
North America and
Emperor of India following the Second American Rebellion and the Great Mutiny respectively.
Elizabeth IV: The namesake of a Regal Lines interstellar passenger liner.[9]
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. Critical of the Conservative government's social policies, he goes up against the utterly ruthless and unscrupulous Prime Minister
Francis Urquhart as an unofficial leader of the opposition but 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.
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 Americarebelled 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, presumably a son fictional son of Henry IX and I.
James V of England and X of Scotland.
James VI of England and XI of Scotland was the reigning monarch in 1926.
In an alternate reality where the
Darien scheme was successful, Scotland remained an independent country with its own colony of Caledonia in
Central America. Kenneth IV was mentioned as the
King of Scotland in 1905, conducting a royal visit to Caledonia during mounting calls for independence.[10]
Unbroken
Plantagenet Monarchs until the 19th Century.
In the GURPSrole-playing gameInfinite 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 King 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.
King Pascal I of the United Kingdom: Played by
John Malkovich, Sauvage is a French private prison entrepreneur who engineered his accession to the British throne in order to convert the entire United Kingdom into a giant prison facility.
Johnny English: Played by
Rowan Atkinson, he was accidentally crowned king. Abdicating after one day in favour of Queen Elizabeth II, English exchanged the throne for a knighthood.
Wyndham Family, the ruling House of the United Kingdom in the film, who are all electrocuted to death 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. One of the Wyndham princes had an affair with an American woman, which resulted in the birth of a son, who was Ralph's father.
Cedric I of the United Kingdom, played by
Peter O'Toole, took power after Ralph I abdicated the throne.
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.
Queen Victoria II, the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom during the 1980s, and married to Prince Arthur. She is forced to abdicate as a result of
leukaemia and consequent chemotherapy. She might be a stand-in for the real-life Elizabeth II, as both Edward VIII and George VI are mentioned as past monarchs.
King Richard IV, first son of Victoria II, and married to Queen Fiona Warwick. He became king after Victoria II abdicated, but was assassinated not long after along with his consort and parents by the
Provisional IRA.
King George VII, second son of Victoria II, and married to Anne Kitchener. His first son is Prince David Arthur Rupert George, nicknamed Prince DARG.
In the 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.
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.
In 2015 animated film Minions, Bob the Minion briefly takes over the crown from Queen
Elizabeth II in 1968 after accidentally crashing into the
Sword in the Stone and
pulling it free. He later abdicates the throne in favor of supervillain Scarlet.
Published in the early 1920s, The Moon Maid and The Moon Men envisioned a twentieth 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.
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".
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 Fanshaw ("Daphne") is his heir and succeeds him on the throne and becomes queen.
Deceased historian Edith Barrington (played by
Annette Crosbie) 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. Whilst conducting research for the biography, Edith becomes frustrated with the many revelations that official recorded histories were wildly incorrect. One example 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,
Catholiclesbian', personally believing that she was undone by her Catholicism.
Prior to his coronation, his sister Princess Eleanor (played by
Sophie Winkleman) attempted unsuccessfully to discredit him in order to claim the throne for herself, being exiled from court after questioning Richard's paternity.
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. After becoming a market for off-the-ration goods and being subsequently blockaded (albeit unsuccessfully),
Burgundy is readmitted into the United Kingdom.
In an alternate reality where the assassination of
Elizabeth I results in the suppression of
Protestantism and the ascendancy of the Catholic Church as a European and world power by the twentieth century, Charles the Good is the King of England and the nominal ruler of the
New World. In the story Corfe Gate, a regional rebellion led by Lady Eleanor breaks out during his reign.
Victoria II reigned from 1921 to 1942. Presumably the eldest surviving child of
George V, she was hedonistic, intelligent and sexually liberal with most of what defined her reign being 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. He was killed when the Imperial air yacht Garuda was hijacked and heavily damaged by the captain, a radical Afrikaner nationalist, in collaboration with the Russian Empire.
Charles III, the son of John II. Reigned from 2025 onwards.
The world is invaded by space parasites, capable of attaching themselves to the body of a human being and completely controlling him or her. The
President of the US implements a policy of ordering all
Americans to walk
naked, as the only way of ensuring they are not controlled by the invaders. The (unnamed) King of Britain wants to follow suit, but is prevented by the strong objections of the
Archbishop of Canterbury, leaving Britain in danger of being taken over.
While in route to a ball to convince
George III to liberalize 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 the King of Great Britain by popular demand,
Ireland and the British Empire 'especially America', acting as an absolutist despot. Samuel's dream ends when his firebrand daughter Mary leads a revolution against him.
King Simon Henstridge, played by
Vincent Regan, dies in Season 1.
Prince Cyrus Henstridge, Duke of York, played by
Jake Maskall, briefly succeeded Simon after his son, Robert, is thought to have been killed in a plane crash and his twin children Prince Liam and Princess Eleanor were deemed illegitimate.
King Robert Henstridge, played by
Max Brown, succeeded his father after revealing himself to be alive.
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.
Harold III (the uncrowned 'Prince of the Americas' and 'heir to the British throne') succeeded his father Thomas in 1995. He had been targeted in a plot involving a smear campaign and an assassination attempt by the Sheriff of San Francisco (that reality's Maximilian Arturo) to seize the Crown for himself. After being briefly kidnapped by the revolutionary Oakland Raiders, he is made aware of the Sheriff's deception and the true condition of the British States of America. He joins forces with the Raiders and the Sliders to denounce the Sheriff and introduce democracy via the implementation of a 'Second Magna Carta' (a version of the United States Constitution written from memory by the Sliders).
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.
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.
Lord William the Last is an arrogant monarch in 14th century Great Britain that is encountered by the protagonists when they travel through time. He tries to marry Queen Metapha and burn Rock and the crew of the Surprise at the stake.
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.
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.
In an alternate timeline accidentally created by
Clark Kent,
Lois Lane and
H. G. Wells in the episode "Soul Mates", Tempus was the King of America in 1996.
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 two centuries 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.
In the HOI4 mod, The New Order: Last Days of Europe, he is the
Emperor of Vietnam and holds no power of his own, acting as a tool for the
Empire of Japan's purposes.