Favourite British Monarch? Pic related. Tragically misunderstood

>>2566210
George V was pretty cool.

Also I had a crush on Anne of Great Britain when I was a kid in history class.

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Henry VIII. No doubt.

Well read, man of the people, didn't take shit from no one. Also composed some good music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YcDFOu6qWw

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>>2566210
>tfw you bumble around for years, partying and pretending to be King and then the fuckers actually invite you back to become King and you bumble around as king and manage to do alright so everybody thinks you're a champion of the people
truly /ourguy/

big fan of King Arthur

>>2567015
Only right answer

>>2566210
James II

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>>2566370
cute

>>2566210

If it isn't George III you're wrong.
>Year 1 of his reign, buys Buckingham Palace for the misses.
>60 year reign sees the ascent of the UK from a mere contender on the European stage to the first global hegemony.
>First genuinely assimilated Hanoverian, mild mannered - most appropriate incarnation of the spirit of England desu.
I mean think about it lads, he begins his reign in the seven years war and dies after Napoleon - who, we should remember dies on his island in the custody of his navy after surrendering to him TWICE!
>Interesting Reign in which the monarchy isn't entirely emasculated but calmly cedes more authority to parliament, including accepting an annual "salary" in exchange for giving up some basically feudal powers. He would pick prime-ministers when the commons got it wrong which caused constitutional tension but not his usurpation.
>Goes Nebuchadnezzar tier insane from time to time - for some reason this is fine and his abdication is not even considered in earnest even when he's a full blown bedlamite, talking to trees, not shaving, and crying all the time.
>Proliferates in a way that is appropriate for a good king.

> "I am born for the happiness or misery of a great nation," he wrote, "and consequently must often act contrary to my passions."

He's the enlightened monarch they don't talk about desu.

>>2566417
Yup

Inhumanly based

>>2566210
Henry V

kills frenchies s hard that they are forced to recognise him as the heir too the french throne.

sadly he then got dysentry and his infant son and his regents werent able to fight as effectively against a reinvigorated french resistance and lost the war.

but the dysentry wasnt his fault, it was after all one of the great killers of the time and certainly killed more sldiers than battle ever did.

>>2567820
Too bad he got so senile in his later years he wasn't aware of Napoleon's defeat.

>>2566370
queen anne was pretty obese during her reign though

>>2567820
>>2568714
it wasn't even geniune mental illness but the symptoms of a blood condition known as porphyria, which wasn't known at the time

Henry IV is both best and criminally underrated

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The Victorian era was so comfy

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George V my favourite by far