Monarchs
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Elisabeth of Bavaria
Famed for her beauty and fashion sense the reluctant Empress had little time for anything but traveling.
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Queen Gorgo of Sparta
Gorgo was one of the few women of ancient Greece who was named by historians. She was the daughter of a king, wife of a king and mother of a king of Sparta.
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Emperor Franz Joseph
Franz Joseph was destined to reign for 68 years but by the end of one of the longest reigns in
European history, his empire would be on the verge of total destruction.
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King Harold II of England
Best known for being defeated by William I, Harold had previously defeated a Viking force and successfully invaded England himself.
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King William I of England
By the time he died, at the ripe old age of 60, he had made an indelible mark on the history of Great Britain and Normandy.
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Salote Tupou III
Her unenviable task was to mend the dynastic quarrels and unite her people before European influence destroyed their culture altogether
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Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
As prince, king and finally emperor he brought his country out of the middle ages and into the 20th Century.
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King Louis XI
His plotting and love of intrigue earned Louis XI many enemies but helped to form a united France under a strong monarchy.
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Isa ibn Salman al-Khalifah
Isa bin Salman ruled a turbulent island for 38 years surviving riots and wars.
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King Zog I of Albania
The climb to power and meteoric fall of King Zog I of Albania is unique in the annals of 20th Century European royalty.
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Christian X of Denmark
Though Christian X was an authoritarian ruler the role he was to play during World War II came to be symbolic of Danish nationalism and resistance.
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King Alfonso XIII
Alfonso's reign began with the death of his father, witnessed the loss of the Spanish empire and ended with civil war.
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Tsar Alexander I of Russia
Thrust into a war against the greatest military mind of the time, Alexander, his army and the Russian winter succeeded where no other had.
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King Ferdinand of Spain
Known as Ferdinand the Catholic he would unite the peninsula with Queen Isabella and establish Spain as a world power.
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King Wenceslas of Bohemia
To many, King Wenceslas is little more than a name in a Christmas Carol but in his day he was a well-known and much beloved monarch.
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King Kamehameha I of Hawaii
Alapa'inuiakauaua, king of Hawaii, was aware of the prophecy that said a sign of a great ruler's coming would be a comet and he would be known as "killer of chiefs".
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King Ghazi of Iraq
The shy prince was thrust unprepared onto the throne of Iraq with the sudden death of his father.
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King Faisal I
He spent most of his adult life fighting the enemies of his people in hopes of building a nation for Arabs.
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Constantine II, King of Greece
Prince Constantine was deemed too young and inexperienced to successfully rule Greece when he ascended the throne of that turbulent country.
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Netherland's Queen Wilhelmina
Wilhelmina's popularity helped her people through two world wars and insured stability in the twentieth century.
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King Faisal II
After becoming a monarch as an infant his troubled reign was doomed despite the backing of the king of Jordan.
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Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil
After his country was overrun by Napoleon, Pedro and his family fled to Brazil where he would in time become emperor and king of Portugal.
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Queen Astrid of Belgium
Belgium's queen has been compared to Princess Diana for her beauty, her caring for others and her tragic death.
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Queen Isabella I of Spain
To most people in the Americas she is best known as the Queen who financed the voyages of Columbus but Queen Isabella I was far more than a bank for explorers.
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King Peter II of Yugoslavia
Peter was only a child when he succeeded his assassinated father but he was called upon to stand up to the tide of Nazism in hopes of saving his country.
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