The naming rules of European monarchs have been highlighted and detailed in previous articles, and will not be repeated here.
Throughout the history of Britain, there are only four monarchs named William, successively William I, William II, William III, William IV, and then the author first briefly introduces William I to William IV, and then analyzes in depth whether the grandson of William the Windsor Dynasty who has ruled England so far can become William V.
William I (reigned 1028-1087, reigned 1066-1087), founding king of the Normandy dynasty in England, he was originally a fake Frenchman, the Duke of Normandy who ruled France under the capetian dynasty, and in 1066 AD, the English Wessex dynasty on the other side of the strait succeeded to the throne, edward the confessor died of illness, because Edward the confessor had no children, so he passed on the throne to the queen's brother Harold II, but was not regarded as a succession, which made him dissatisfied with Harold II. Because according to the blood relationship, his mother was a member of the Royal Family of the Wessex Dynasty, so he claimed that he was entitled to inherit the British throne, which was rejected by Harold II, so he led his troops across the Strait to invade England, defeated and killed Harold II in October of the same year, and then ascended the throne as king, at the age of 38, established the Normandy Dynasty to replace the Wessex Dynasty to rule the United Kingdom, during the reign, he was a monarch with excellent civil rule and martial arts, making the Normandy Dynasty prosperous at the beginning of the country. In 1087 AD, he fell and died of wounds in a rebellion against his eldest son Robert, at the age of 59, reigning for 21 years.
William I, founding king of the Normandy dynasty of England
William II (1056-1100, reigned 1087-1100), the second king of the English Windsor dynasty, the third son of the founding king William I, because of the rebellion of his eldest brother Robert, Robert and his descendants were deprived of the right to inherit the throne, and the second brother Richard also died before his father William I, and left no children, so he succeeded to the throne after his father's death, at the age of 31, during his reign, he expanded the territory, set Scotland and Wales as the target of conquest, and achieved certain achievements. Subsequent English kings adhered to this goal and eventually achieved it, dying unexpectedly during a wild hunt in 1100 AD at the age of 44 and reigning for 13 years.
William II, the second King of the Normandy Dynasty of England
William III (1650-1702, reigned 1689-1702), the sixth king of the Stuart dynasty of England, he was originally a fake Dutchman, the Netherlands at that time was not an ordinary monarchy, but a federal republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, the head of state called the government, but still a hereditary model, inherited by the Orange Nassau family, he was the only son and widow of the fourth ruling William II, in 1650 his father William II died of an accident, The Netherlands entered a period of non-government for 22 years, and it was not until 1672 AD that he succeeded his father, a ruler who was very good at civil and martial arts, and during the reign of the Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, the sea trade was the best in Europe, and he was given the title of coachman by sea.
In 1677, William III married Mary II, the eldest daughter of James II, the fourth king of the Stuart dynasty of England, which made the Stuart dynasty of England and the Republic of the Netherlands of the Netherlands allied with the French Bourbon Dynasty ruled by the Sun King Louis XIV, and in 1688 AD, because of his Catholicism and the insistence on absolute monarchy, James II was opposed by the British, and the Glorious Revolution broke out and stripped James II of his throne. And with the military support of William III, who was also a Protestant, James II saw the powerlessness of the heavens, fled to France, the following year the 39-year-old William III and the then 27-year-old Mary II and his wife jointly became the king of England, this phenomenon is called co-rule, and the promulgation of the Bill of Rights marks the formal abolition of the monarchy in Britain, the use of constitutional monarchy, for Britain to become a world power to provide unprecedented institutional advantages and productivity, which is William III's great contribution to British history. In 1694, Mary II died of illness, and William III was very sad and gradually faded out of the government until he died in 1702 due to a recurrence of old wounds, at the age of 52, reigning for 13 years.
William III, the sixth king of the Stuart dynasty of England
William IV (1765-1837, reigned 1830-1837), the fifth king of the Hanoverian dynasty, the third son of the third king George III, the fourth king George IV's mother and third brother, the eldest brother George IV died in 1830 AD, because George IV had no children, and the second brother, Prince Frederick, the second son of George III, died early and had no children, so he was able to inherit the throne at the age of 65, during which he continued the fruits of the Industrial Revolution begun by his father George III. England became even stronger, and since he had no children, his heir to the throne would be Victoria I, the only daughter of his half-brother Prince Edward, who died prematurely, and he tried to live only to wait until his niece Victoria I reached the age of 18, so that his niece could inherit the throne and reign in person, and it turned out that he did, victoria I became an adult at the age of 18 in 1837 AD, and in June of the same year he died of illness at the age of 72, reigning for 7 years. After Victoria I succeeded to the throne, inheriting the achievements of the rule of the five previous kings, Britain became the most powerful British Empire in the world and the most vast colonial empire in the world's historical territory.
William IV, the fifth king of the Hanoverian dynasty of England
Introducing four monarchs named William in British history: William I, the founding king of the Normandy Dynasty, William II, the second king of the Normandy dynasty, William III, the fifth king of the Stuart dynasty, william IV, the fifth king of the Hanover dynasty, and then introduce William, the grandson of the current King of the Windsor Dynasty of England.
Prince William was born in 1982 AD, a proper post-80s young man, he is the eldest grandson of the current King Elizabeth II of the Windsor Dynasty, the eldest son of Elizabeth II, the eldest son of Crown Prince Charles, according to the British succession law, he is the second heir to the throne, if Crown Prince Charles successfully inherits the throne, he is the crown prince, and the possibility of successfully inheriting the throne is very large, then he is the future William V.
Taking a step back, it is rumored that Elizabeth II is likely to skip Crown Prince Charles and directly pass the throne to the eldest grandson, Prince William, then Prince William is also a fake William V, so in any case, the United Kingdom is unlikely to abolish the monarchy in the future, and the possibility of The current British Windsor William's grandson succeeding to the throne is very large, that is to say, he is very likely to become the fifth monarch in England called William, he is the future William V.
William, the current king of the Windsor dynasty of England