Britain this weekend is celebrating the diamond jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, who succeeded her father on the throne in 1952, when Winston Churchill was prime minister.
See if you can put some of her more famous predecessors in chronological order.
Extra points if you know which one is the father of the current queen.
1. Charles I
2. Edward VIII
3. Elizabeth I
4. George III
5. George VI
6. Henry VIII
7. James I
8. Richard I (Lionheart)
9. Victoria
10. William I
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Answers :
a) William I (1066-87)
b) Richard I (1189-99)
c) Henry VIII (1509-47)
d) Elizabeth I (1558-1603)
e) James I (1603-25)
f) Charles I (1625-49)
g) George III (1760-1820)
h) Victoria (1837-1901)
i) Edward VIII (1936)
j) George VI (1936-52)
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