swap_horiz King George VI Alternatives

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Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria was monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death in 1901, a reign...

19TH Century British Empress Commonwealth

8.2 Great

2

Sultan Qaboos bin Said

Qaboos bin Said ruled Oman as sultan from 1970 until his death in 2020 after removing his father, Said bin Taimur, in a...

20TH Century Modernizer Omani Al Said

8.1 Great

3

Emperor Akihito (Heisei)

Akihito was emperor of Japan from 1989 until his abdication in 2019, and his reign is identified with the Heisei era. He...

Japanese Pacifist 20TH Century Yamato

7.6 Good

4

Queen Margrethe II of Denmark

Margrethe II was queen of Denmark from January 1972 until her abdication in January 2024, when her elder son succeeded h...

Danish Artist 20TH Century Glucksburg

7.6 Good

5

King George V

George V was king of the United Kingdom and the British dominions, and emperor of India, from 1910 until his death in 19...

20TH Century British Wwi Commonwealth

7.5 Good

6

King William III (of Orange)

King William III of Orange (1650–1702) was the Dutch stadtholder who deposed James II in the Glorious Revolution of 1688...

British Dutch 17TH Century Orange Nassau

7.4 Good

7

King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud

Abdulaziz ibn Saud was the founder and first king of Saudi Arabia. Beginning with the recapture of Riyadh in 1902, he br...

20TH Century Founder Saudi Al Saud

7.4 Good

8

Emperor Haile Selassie I

Haile Selassie I was emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, apart from the period of Italian occupation that followed th...

20TH Century Ethiopian Solomonic Last Emperor

7.2 Good

9

King Hussein I of Jordan

Hussein bin Talal (1935-1999) was the Hashemite king of Jordan from 1952 until his death, although a regency governed un...

20TH Century Jordanian Hashemite Long Reign

7.2 Good

10

King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX)

Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927-2016), known by the regnal title Rama IX, was king of Thailand from 1946 until his death. A mem...

Longest Reign 20TH Century Thai Chakri

7.2 Good

11

Queen Anne of Great Britain

Anne (1665-1714) was queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1702, then queen of Great Britain and Ireland after th...

18TH Century British Union Stuart

7.1 Good

12

King Faisal of Saudi Arabia

Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1906-1975) was king of Saudi Arabia from 1964 until his assassination in 1975. His governm...

20TH Century Saudi Modernizer Al Saud

7.1 Good

13

King Edward VII

King Edward VII (1841–1910) was the eldest son of Queen Victoria who reigned from 1901 and lent his name to the Edwardia...

19TH Century British Edwardian Commonwealth

7.0 Good

14

King Michael I of Romania

Michael I was King of Romania during two separate reigns, from 1927 to 1930 and from 1940 until 1947. On 23 August 1944,...

Wwii 20TH Century Romanian Hohenzollern

6.9 Fair

15

Queen Mary II of England

Queen Mary II of England (1662–1694) co-ruled jointly with her husband William III from 1689 following the Glorious Revo...

British 17TH Century Stuart Protestant

6.7 Fair

16

King Faisal I of Iraq

Faisal I of Iraq was a Hashemite statesman who became Iraq's first king in 1921 after the Ottoman Empire's rule in the r...

20TH Century Founder Iraqi Hashemite

6.5 Fair

17

King Charles III

King Charles III is the monarch of the United Kingdom and became sovereign on 8 September 2022, immediately after the de...

21ST Century British Current Commonwealth

6.2 Fair

18

King Norodom Sihanouk

Norodom Sihanouk was a Cambodian monarch and political leader who lived from 1922 to 2012. He was king from 1941 to 1955...

20TH Century Independence Cambodian Norodom

6.2 Fair

19

Emperor Taisho

Emperor Taisho of Japan (r. 1912–1926) presided over Japanese participation in World War I and a period of liberal polit...

Japanese 20TH Century Democracy Yamato

6.0 Fair

20

King Goodwill Zwelithini

King Goodwill Zwelithini (1948–2021) was the eighth king of the Zulu nation in South Africa, reigning from 1971 and repr...

Cultural 20TH Century Zulu Ceremonial

5.9 Mediocre