Who was related to whom, who ruled next, and why. Every succession here is explained in plain words and cites its sources — and where nobody has reviewed it yet, the page says so instead of guessing.
England & Ireland
Five monarchs, one family, and the questions that shaped modern Britain: a crown won in battle, six marriages in search of an heir, a nine-day queen, …
Scotland, England & Ireland
From Flodden to the Act of Settlement: the Scottish house that inherited England, lost a king to the executioner's block, was restored, deposed again,…
England
The last Yorkist kings and the marriage that ended the Wars of the Roses. Start with Edward IV, whose daughter married the man who took the crown from…
Parents, marriages, children and reigns come from Wikidata (CC0) — 393 people in this collection, 207 of them with full records. Dates keep their precision: a record that only knows a century is not shown as a year.
Why a crown changed hands is a claim, not a data point. Each of the 23 transitions here was written and reviewed, with sources. Family links that sources dispute are labelled, not smoothed over.