King of the United Kingdom

The King or Queen of the United Kingdom, fully named the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, (TV: Tooth and Claw) the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, (PROSE: The Flaming Soldier, The Daughters of Earth, AUDIO: Minuet in Hell) and the United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland, (TV: The Beast Below) was the title given to the ruler of the country of the United Kingdom.

Formation
In 1603, Elizabeth I, the Queen of England and last Tudor monarch, died. (AUDIO: The Marian Conspiracy) The throne subsequently passed to her cousin, (PROSE: Girl Power!) the Stuart (PROSE: Verdigris) King of Scotland James VI, resulting in the union of the English and Scottish crowns. According to the Eighth Doctor, James VI of Scotland became James I of the United Kingdom. (PROSE: The Dying Days) Other accounts indicated that James was James I of England (WC: Case File Eight) and that the two domains continued to exist as seperate nations in the following decades.

James was succeeded by his son Charles I. After his reign, there was a period when the country was a Protectorate led by a Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell then Richard Cromwell, but Charles II was ultimately invited to retake the throne. (PROSE: The Roundheads) He was followed by James II who was overthrown by his daughter Mary II and her husband William III, reigning jointly. (AUDIO: The Glorious Revolution) They were succeeded by Queen Anne, (AUDIO: Phantasmagoria) the last of the Stuarts, who died in 1714. (AUDIO: Doctor Who and the Pirates)

Eventually, the English were "alienated by the autocratic Scottish Stuart Kings" and threw them out of the "United Kingdom", replacing them with the Hanoverian German Georges. George I was succeeded by George II, (PROSE: The Highlanders) who was then succeeded by his grandson, George III. (PROSE: The Wheel of Ice) At the end of the 18th century, the nation he ruled was referred to as "the Kingdom of Britain". (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)