History UsefulNotes / UnitedKingdom

* '''Area:''' 242,495 km (93,628 sq mi) (78th)

** Monarch: [[UserfulNotes/HMTheQueen Elizabeth II]]

** Monarch: [[UserfulNotes/TheQueen Elizabeth II]]

** Monarch: Elizabeth II

*** [[Creator/MeghanMarkle Meghan, Duchess of Sussex]][[note]]who has her own page by virtue of already being an
actress[[/note]]
*** [[Creator/SophieWinkleman Lady Frederick Windsor]][[note]]also has her own page by virtue of already being an
actress[[/note]]

*** [[Creator/MeghanMarkle Meghan, Duchess of Sussex]][[note]]who has her own page by virtue of already being an actress[[/note]]

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland -- [[IHaveManyNames commonly referred to as the United Kingdom, the UK, Britain, the Union, or the British Isles]] -- is a Northern European constitutional democratic monarchy which sits on a collection of islands in ([[UsefulNotes/WithEuropeButNotOfIt or "near"]]) the north-west of UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}, most particularly Great Britain and the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, as well as smaller islands like the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland. "Great Britain" is not the name of the country, at least not since 1801. The country is the fifth most populated in Europe.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland -- [[IHaveManyNames commonly referred to as the United Kingdom, the UK, Britain, the Union, or the British Isles]] -- is a Western European constitutional democratic monarchy which sits on a collection of islands in ([[UsefulNotes/WithEuropeButNotOfIt or "near"]]) the north-west of UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}, most particularly Great Britain and the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, as well as smaller islands like the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland. "Great Britain" is not the name of the country, at least not since 1801. The country is the fifth most populated in Europe.

*** {{Whitehall}}

Britain is made up of four "home nations" wedged into a space slightly smaller than the state of Oregon: England, UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}}, UsefulNotes/{{Wales}} and UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland. Wales was annexed by England in the [[TheMiddleAges Middle Ages]] (and the title of Wales' old ruler - Prince of Wales (''Tywysog Cymru'') - has been passed to the reigning English monarch's eldest son ever since) but Scotland's entry into this Union was via vote of the Scottish Parliament in the early 18th century which means, theoretically, Scotland entered as an equal. Because England and Scotland merged to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, this means that talking about the "Kingdom of England" (or of Scotland) after 1707 is incorrect as those entities had legally ceased to exist (which makes the common foreign -- and frequently domestic -- reference to Her Majesty as 'the Queen of England' a mistake). The title "United Kingdom" only came about when another Act of Union combined the Kingdom of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland, though paragraph III of the 1707 Act of Union states "THAT the united Kingdom of Great Britain be Represented by one and the same Parliament..." (note the capitalisation) and the description "United Kingdom" was in common parlance in the 18th century.

** Myth/TheLadyOfTheLake

** Prime Minister: Boris Johnson

** Monarch: Elizbeth II

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland -- [[IHaveManyNames commonly referred to as the United Kingdom, the UK, Britain, the Union, or the British Isles]] -- is a Northern European constitutional democratic monarchy which sits on a collection of islands in ([[UsefulNotes/WithEuropeButNotOfIt or "near"]]) the north-west of UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}, most particularly Great Britain and the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, as well as smaller islands like the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland. "Great Britain" is not the name of the country, at least not since 1801. The country is the fifth most populated in Europe.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland -- [[IHaveManyNames commonly referred to as the United Kingdom, the UK, Britain, the Union, or the British Isles]] -- is a Western European constitutional democratic monarchy which sits on a collection of islands in ([[UsefulNotes/WithEuropeButNotOfIt or "near"]]) the north-west of UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}, most particularly Great Britain and the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, as well as smaller islands like the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland. "Great Britain" is not the name of the country, at least not since 1801. The country is the fifth most populated in Europe.

[[AC:St. George's Cross (The English flag)]]
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->The red cross on a white field goes back to UsefulNotes/TheCrusades, when English and French crusaders exchanged colours assigned to them by UsefulNotes/ThePope with each other (originally England got a standard of a white cross on a red field), which was identified with Saint George, a late 3rd-century Roman soldier.
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* UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}}
** UsefulNotes/{{Glasgow}}
** UsefulNotes/GreaterGlasgow
* UsefulNotes/{{Wales}}
** UsefulNotes/{{Portmeirion}}
* UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland
* Merrie Old UsefulNotes/{{England}}

* UsefulNotes/TheChannelIslands -- self-governing Crown Dependencies outside the UK proper
** UsefulNotes/{{Guernsey}}
** UsefulNotes/{{Jersey}}
* UsefulNotes/IsleOfMan -- another Crown Dependency

* Merrie Old England

*** [[Creator/MeghanMarkle HRH Meghan, Duchess of Sussex]][[note]]who has her own page by virtue of already being an actress[[/note]]

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