Overview of the most important facts from the history of Great Britain. The most outstanding features of the kings of England and their government. Places connected with royalty. The Queen is the official Head of State, is a symbol of the Unity of nation.
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(Dates of British history) Some facts from the history history royalty britain Prehistoric Britain was a period in the human occupation of Great Britain. The invaders , known as Vickings, or Danes returned again and again to attack England. At first they didn’t settle, and the English had to pay tribute. In the ninth century they conquered and settled in the extreme north and west of Scotland and also some coastal regions of Ireland. They held the English crown for 24 years. 3 Danish kings, one after another, ruled over England; one of them Canute was at the same time king of England, Denmark, Norway and Sweden.the rule of the Danish kings ended in 1035 after Canute’s death. In 1066 an invading army of the Normans won the victory at the battle of Hastings; as a result of this single battle William, Duke of Normandy was crowned king of England and became known as William the Conqqueror. Unlike the Germanic invasions, the Norman one was small-scale. For 2 hundred years the English people were at war with the Danes coming from Denmark and Norsemen invading from Scandinavia. King Alfred of the Saxon kingdom of Wessex first took part in the battles when he was a boy of 16. After King Saint Ethelred’s death the Witan (the meeting of wise men) passed over his two sons and elected his younger brother Alfred king.