List of fictional monarchs

This is a list of fictional monarchs – characters who appear in fiction as the monarch of a fictional or real country. They are listed by country, then according to the production or story in which they appeared.

Lists of fictional Presidents of the United States
A–B C–D E–F
G–H I–J K–M
N–R S–T U–Z
Unnamed fictional presidents
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A–B C–D E–G
H–J K–L M–O
P–R S–U V–Z
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A

Austria-Hungary

The Illusionist
  • Crown Prince Leopold is the powerful and influential heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the 2006 film The Illusionist, although his father, the Emperor, is the actual reigning monarch.

A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein - The Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein and the hereditary King of Bohemia, he approaches Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson about the retrieval of letters and photographs confirming a liaison with Irene Adler in order to secure his engagement to Clotilde Lothma Von Saxe-Meiningen, a young Scandinavian princess. (The story fictionally assumes that Bohemia was ruled by its own Habsburg branch, rather than the actual situation of its being part of the domains of the Austro-Hungarian Emperor).

B

Brazil

Time for the Stars by Robert A. Heinlein
  • Emperor Dom Pedro III greets the protagonists as they return to Earth after a centuries-long galactic voyage, presenting them with a medal on behalf of the World Government.

The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling
  • In the novel, Dom Pedro is mentioned as ruler of the Dominion of Braganza, the shadowy post-Fall successor to the Empire of Brazil ruled by a caudillo of the month.

Books by Harry Turtledove
  • Dom Pedro IV: In the Southern Victory series, he is the Emperor of Brazil during the First Great War, leading the country into war on the side of the Central Powers, cutting off supply lines between the Allied countries of Argentina and Britain and hastening the end of the war. Pedro IV's lineage, reasons for the Brazilian monarchy's continued existence and the status of slavery in Brazil are not addressed.
  • In Curious Notions of the Crosstime Traffic series, Imperial Germany is victorious in the 20th century's three world wars, becoming the dominant world power by 2096. This results in Germany restoring the monarchies of numerous countries including Brazil. The unnamed Emperor of Brazil is among the numerous monarchs who attend the Kaiser in Berlin in a glittering annual ceremony broadcast live worldwide.

Bulgaria

In the Presence of Mine Enemies by Harry Turtledove
  • During Horst Witzleben’s Seven O’Clock News, an unnamed Tsar of Bulgaria is reported as welcoming the Poglavnik of Croatia during a state visit.

Year of the Rabbit
  • Prince Hector, the heir to the Bulgarian throne, attends Balkan peace talks in London but is kidnapped whilst under the protection of Detective Inspector Eli Rabbit and his team. His sister, Princess Juliana, is revealed to be the perpetrator of the kidnapping, wanting the Bulgarian throne for herself. She is also an expert sharpshooter and a member of the secret organisation, 'the Vision'.

C

China and the Greater Chinese Empire

Curse of the Golden Flower
  • Emperor Ping is the imperial ruler of the late Tang dynasty and the father of Princes Wan, Jai and Yu, who is in the place of Puyuan in the 2006 Chinese film Curse of the Golden Flower.

Mulan

D

Denmark

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

The Prince & Me

F

Finland

King Ralph
  • King Gustav
    • He and the Finnish royal family visit the United Kingdom shortly after King Ralph's accession to the British throne. The purpose of the visit is to arrange a royal marriage between Ralph and Princess Anna of Finland and to negotiate the purchasing of off-shore drilling equipment following the discovery of oil reserves in the Baltic Sea. The arranged marriage is called off after King Gustav is given photographs showing Ralph with Miranda, an exotic dancer.

France

Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore
  • Napoleon VI
    • He is mentioned as the Emperor of France reigning sometime around the 1930s with his scandalous personal life being gossiped about in American publications.

Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
  • Minnie Mouse portrays the role of a princess who rules the kingdom of France but is also a victim of being overthrown by the villainous Pete in Disney's 2004 direct-to-video animated film Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers.

Monty Python’s Flying Circus
  • In the episode The Golden Age Of Ballooning, a Scottish conman (played by Michael Palin) poses as the French monarch, claiming to be Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI and Louis XVII.

The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling
  • Napoleon VI is mentioned as the Emperor of France-outre-mer in an alternate 2025. France-outre-mer is based in Algiers, reclaimed French, Spanish and Portuguese coastal territories. King-Emperor John II arranges the marriage of his daughter Sita to the heir to the throne of France-outre-mer.

The Rose of Versailles
  • Louis XV was the previous King of France. He died of his smallpox inside the Palace of Versailles.
  • Louis XVI, the Dauphin, becomes the new King of France after his grandfather's death but has been captured with his royal family during the French Revolution. He has been in jail and is later executed, including his family.

The Short Reign of Pippin IV by John Steinbeck
  • Pippin Arnulf Héristal, a descendant of Charlemagne, is crowned as Pippin IV to provoke a rebellion.

Southern Victory Series by Harry Turtledove
  • Charles XI
  • Louis XIX
    • Following Charles XI's death, he is succeeded by Louis XIX. While he initially announced France's intention to continue to fight Germany, he ultimately accepts capitulation.

To Kill Napoleon, Whatever the Cost by Elizabeth Williams
  • Napoleon VI is the French Emperor in 1973 in an alternate timeline where Napoleon I imposed a crushing defeat on Britain in 1807.

The Two Georges by Richard Dreyfuss and Harry Turtledove

The Virgin & the Wheels by L. Sprague de Camp
  • Napoleon V
    • Emperor of the French in an alternate universe in which New York City was seemingly under Bonpartist occupation enforced by looting Spanish soldiers.

G

Germany

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives by Richard Ned Lebow
  • As a result of Archduke Franz Ferdinand never being assassinated, neither of the world wars occur. Germany remains a monarchy into the twenty-first century, with the unnamed Kaiser's niece Princess Elizabetha (named for Elizabeth II) being engaged to be married to Prince Harry.

The Shape of Things to Come by H. G. Wells
  • Prince Manfred of Bavaria is the leader of a worldwide rebellion against a nascent world government sometime during the late twentieth century.

Books by Harry Turtledove
  • Wilhelm II remains on the German throne beyond 1918 as a result of a Central Powers victory during analogues of the First World War in Curious Notions and the Southern Victory series.
  • Wilhelm III (or Friedrich I of Germany and Friedrich Wilhelm V of Prussia)
    • In the Southern Victory series, he refuses to return Alsace-Lorraine to the new Kingdom of France, which acts as the casus belli for the Second Great War in Europe, during the course of which he authorizes the atomic bombings of London, Norwich, Brighton, Paris and Petrograd.
    • In Curious Notions, he leads Germany during an analogue of the Second World War in the late 1930s, resulting in Germany becoming the dominant power in Europe.
  • Wilhelm IV: In Curious Notions, he leads Germany during the Third World War circa 1956, during which numerous cities across the United States were devastated in nuclear blasts (San Francisco only being spared due to a German nuclear bomber plane being shot down). A bronze statue of him is mentioned as being situated outside of the San Francisco City Hall.

The Gate of Time by Philip José Farmer
  • Wilhelm IV leads an expansionist, imperialist Germany in his timeline's version of the Second World War.

Greece

If It Had Happened Otherwise edited by J. C. Squire

H

Hawaii

Days of Infamy by Harry Turtledove
  • Stanley Owana Laanui and Cynthia Laanui – In the Days of Infamy series, set in an alternate timeline where Japan not only attacked Pearl Harbor but also fully occupied the Hawaiian Islands, Laanui (an obscure but fictional member of the former Hawaiian Royal Family) is installed as a puppet 'King of Hawaii'. He chooses Cynthia Laanui to be his consort.

I

Iran

Books by Harry Turtledove

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Iraq

The Thief and the Cobbler
  • King Nod is the sleepy ruler of Baghdad (also known as the Golden City), the father of Princess Yum-Yum and father-in-law of Tack the Cobbler.

Italy

The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
  • In the alternate 1976 depicted in the novel, amongst the numerous crowned heads of Europe attending the funeral of Stephen III of England is an unspecified King of Naples.

In the Presence of Mine Enemies by Harry Turtledove
  • Umberto III – In the alternate 2010 depicted in the book, Italy (like Spain and Portugal) is an ally of the Greater German Reich and possesses its own empire but is compelled to carry out racial policies such as the extermination of Arabs in its territories. The Italian King is a figurehead but does hold influence in domestic politics.

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

J

Japan and the Greater Japanese Empire

The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling

Books by Harry Turtledove
  • In In the Presence of Mine Enemies, set in an alternate timeline where the Axis Powers won the Second World War, an unnamed Emperor of Manchukuo (a subordinate ruler within the Japanese Greater East Asia Sphere of Co-Prosperity) is one of many heads of state who commiserate the death of the Führer, Kurt Haldweim.
  • In Joe Steele, Japan surrenders to the Americans in the South and the Soviets in the North. The U.S. establishes the Constitutional Monarchy of Japan. However, with Emperor Hirohito being killed during an air raid towards the end of the war, Hirohito's 12-year-old son Akihito becomes the new emperor, although he is only a figure head, as it is General Dwight D. Eisenhower who really runs the country.

L

Liechtenstein

Cabin Pressure
  • King Maximilian - In the episode Vaduz, the crew of MJN Air are hired to fly King Maximilian (played by Kieran Hodgson) to Fitton. Unbeknownst to them, however, is the fact that Maximilian is a young boy, the posthumous and only son of the previous King, preceded by six older sisters with the eldest, Princess Theresa (played by Matilda Ziegler) acting as Regent. Having become King at such a young age, Maxi constantly flouts his title and power for trivial reasons which his pilot, Captain Martin Crieff, says would not make him popular in the long-term (based on his own experiences). After Princess Theresa covers for Crieff for accidentally ordering too much fuel, the two begin dating.

Lithuania

Gunpowder Empire by Harry Turtledove
  • King Kuzmickas
    • In this alternate history, the Roman Empire never fell and remained strong and powerful to the end the 21st Century and beyond, eventually gaining firearms and developing a technology roughly similar to our 17th Century. Eventually, the rival Lietuvan Empire developed to its north and east (roughly similar to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth). The two evenly matched empires were in permanent cold war, sometimes turning hot. One such occasion was when King Kuzmickas of Lietuva mobilized his army a tried to conquer the city of Polisso, capital of the Roman province of Dacia. He placed the city under siege and came very to capturing it, but in the end had to withdraw. The ceasefire was worked out by a young Roman emissary Ieremeo Soltero whose eloquence impressed the King.

M

Mexico

The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
  • An unnamed Emperor of Mexico is mentioned in conversation between the castrati Mirabilis and Viaventosa. The nature of the Mexican Empire is unclear, as the Viceroyalty of New Spain also exists.

Southern Victory Series by Harry Turtledove
  • Maximilian I
    • With the War of Secession ending in a Confederate victory in 1862, France and Napoleon III is able to concentrate on intervention in Mexico, winning the war and installing Maximilian I to the throne shortly afterwards. He would serve as the Emperor of Mexico until at least 1880 and his dynasty he founded there would remain in power through the Second Great War, relying on France and the Confederacy for protection from the wrath of the United States. Maximilian's installation was a violation of the Monroe Doctrine. The French and Confederates prevented the US from enforcing the doctrine, thus effectively shooting it between the eyes.
  • Maximilian II
    • He had served as the Emperor of Mexico since at least 1880. He maintained the close ties between his country and France. In 1881, with his nation desperate for money, Maximilian decided to sell the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora to the Confederate States, which would cause the Second Mexican War with the United States.
  • Francisco José I
  • Maximilian III
    • He served as the Emperor of Mexico after Francisco Jose I. During his reign as emperor during the late 1910s and early 1920s, anti-Habsburg revolutionaries sought to remove him from the throne and sparked the Mexican Civil War in 1917. He served as the emperor until at least 1942 and saw the beginning of the Second Great War and Mexico join the Entente Powers once again.
  • Francisco José II
    • He served as the Emperor of Mexico after Maximilian III and was the emperor during the Second Great War. He reluctantly supplied troops to the Confederacy, who were used to both help attack the United States and later defend the Confederacy from US counter-attacks.
    • After U.S. General Irving Morrell's major breakthrough at Pittsburgh came at the expense of poorly-equipped Mexican troops, Francisco Jose II refused to allow his men to participate in any more major battles against the United States. This would result in Mexico losing the Baja California peninsula to the United States. Confederate President Jake Featherston, after unsuccessfully attempting to change the Emperor's mind, finally acquiesced. Mexican troops were instead used to battle the black guerrilla fighters in the southern part of the Confederacy.

Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein
  • Among the many alternate timelines visited by the protagonists, there is one in which late 20th century Mexico is a monarchy, ruled by a king.

Mongol Empire

Times Without Number by John Brunner
  • King Mahendra the White Elephant
    • In an Alternative history equivalent of the year 1988, King Mahendra the White Elephant is a decadent Indian usurper sitting the throne of a Mongol Empire ruling all Asia and all Europe. Under his rule, Christianity is suppressed. He has in his court a corps of female gladiators, adept at Martial arts and archery, who "fight like Hashishin" and who speak a dialect of Chinese different from all those spoken in our reality.

P

Portugal

The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
  • The unnamed King of Portugal is mentioned as being in attendance at the funeral of Stephen III of England in 1976.

Curious Notions by Harry Turtledove
  • In an alternate timeline, Imperial Germany became the dominant world power by 2096, following its victories in the 20th century's three world wars. As result, Germany restored the monarchies of various countries including Portugal. The King of Portugal is among the many monarchs annually attending the Kaiser in Berlin, in a glittering ceremony broadcast live worldwide.

R

Russia

The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
  • The novel is set in an alternate 1976. The Crown Prince of Muscovy is mentioned as being in attendance at the funeral of King Stephen III of England.

Anastasia

And Having Writ... by Donald R. Bensen
  • Nicholas II
    • Nicholas II meets up with the four alien explorers Raf, Ari, Valmis and Dark at Tsarskoe Selo in 1909. After his son Alexi falls and strikes his head on a desk, the aliens and the Tsar discuss the czarevitch's Haemophilia and after a finding out that his son lacks the protein in his blood and that he has the protein, agrees to a blood transfusion with the help of Dark's machine. His son is cured within three days and results in nationwide rejoicing at this news and Grigori Rasputin is dragged from the Palace by Imperial soldiers. Czar Nicholas is so boundlessly thankful for the aliens deed and arranges safe passage to Spain for the Explorers, who are still being pursued by American Marines. In addition, the Czar promises to seriously consider everything that Ari has told him about the possibility of a World War. However, neither World War I or the Russian Revolution happening, Nicholas remains on the Russian throne until at least 1933.
  • Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia
    • With his Haemophilia cured in 1909, Alexei grows up a healthy person. He succeed the Russian throne by 1933. During their 1933 tour of Earth, which the four alien explorers undertake just prior to their departure from Earth, they are received by Alexei, who is now the Czar of Russia. During the encounter, Raf describes him as a "strapping young lad."

Back in the USSA by Eugene Byrne and Kim Newman
  • Nicholas III is the Russian Tsar in 1972 as depicted in Abdication Street. His daughter Duchess Ekaterina is intended to marry Charles, Duke of Cornwall, the great-nephew and heir apparent of Edward VIII.

The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling
  • Grand Duke Nikolai is the de facto tsar of the Russian Empire in 2025. By the alternate 2025 of the novel, the Empire is centered around Samarkand and has adopted regressive religious practices such as ritualistic cannibalism and worship of Chernobog.

Southern Victory Series by Harry Turtledove
  • Nicholas II
    • In 1914, when Austria-Hungary issued a number of ultimata to Serbia following the assassination of Franz Ferdinand by a Serb in Sarajevo, Nicholas II promised to support the Serbs should they refuse the ultimata. They did, and Russia declared war on Austria-Hungary, which had declared war on Serbia. The Great War followed. In 1917, Nicholas found himself facing a Red revolution, followed by a protracted civil war, which resulted in Russia backing out of the Great War. Ultimately, Nicholas and his supporters triumphed, and Nicholas remained emperor for the remainder of the 1920s and died in the early 1930s. The destruction resulting from the wars left Russia in such a poor state that in 1929 she was forced to suspend payment of a loan to Austria-Hungary. This caused a chain effect that led in turn to the worldwide stock market crash of that year. Following his death, Nicholas was succeeded as Tsar by his younger brother Michael II.
  • Michael II

What Might Have Been
  • Constantine I
    • In the story What If Napoleon Triumphs In Russia by Adam Zamoyski, after the French Empire's victory over Russia and Alexander I's flight from Pskov to a remote monastery, Grand Duke Constantine was installed by Napoleon as Tsar on 15 August 1813. Tsar Constantine I was considered a weak leader, being forced to relinquish the Baltic territories, return Finland to Sweden and to send Russian troops to help France fight in Spain. Constantine faced a peasant's revolt led by a false pretender claiming to be Alexander I but was ultimately assassinated in 1827, replaced by his younger brother Nicholas.

S

Spain

Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Times Without Number by John Brunner
  • Philip IX
    • In an alternative timeline where the Spanish Armada successfully invaded England in 1588, the 'Western Empire' (the successor to the Spanish Empire) encompasses France, England, the Spanish Netherlands, South America and Central America with a loose protectorate over a Mohawk-controlled North America; however, the Iberian Peninsula was turned into a 'New Khalifate' by Islamic invaders, forcing the relocation of the center of the Spanish Empire to Londres. In one of the book's episodes, the King and the entire Royal Family are killed by female warriors, masters of Martial arts, which were unwisely brought in from an Alternate History timeline; however, the book's time-traveling protagonist manages to change history and avert the disaster.

The Two Georges by Harry Turtledove and Richard Dreyfuss
  • In an alternate reality where American Revolution never occurred and British America remained within the British Empire, a personal union comprising the French and Spanish empires called the Holy Alliance is the British Empire's main rival; the Holy Alliance is dominated by its French half, ruled by François IV.

Sweden

What Might Have Been

T

Thailand

The King and I

Turkey and the Ottoman Empire

The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
  • An unnamed Sultan-Calif of Turkey is mentioned with the Ottoman Empire surviving well into the 20th century and still controlling vast amounts of territory including the Balkans.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  • The Nazi expedition searching for the Holy Grail is shown to have been equipped by an unnamed Sultan of Hatay, in exchange for a Rolls-Royce Phantom II. The fictionalised Hatay monarchy is stated as being a "Republic" in the film.

The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling
  • Al-Hussein is the ruler of the Caliphate of Damascus and the Caliph of Islam in the post-Fall world. The Caliphate is an Arab empire encompassing the former Ottoman Empire, the Balkans and Persia, born out of Arab revolts against the Ottoman Empire in the immediate aftermath of the Fall. It is the main rival of France-outre-mer and is the chief obstacle to the formation of an Anglo-French condominium over the Sultanate of Egypt.

Curious Notions by Harry Turtledove
  • In an alternate timeline, Imperial Germany became the dominant world power by 2096, following its victories in the 20th century's three world wars. The Ottoman Empire, having been Germany's loyal ally, survived to the end of the 21st Century when the book's plot takes place, and probably beyond - though clearly subservient to Germany; the Germans prop up its government as they do with numerous other Monarchies throughout the world. The Ottoman Sultan is among the many monarchs annually attending the Kaiser in Berlin, in a glittering ceremony broadcast live worldwide.

U

The United Kingdom, England, Scotland and Ireland

2525
  • George VII: Whilst a downsized British Royal Family (a couple living in a two bedroom flat in Tooting) recall the gradual decline of their family and the United Kingdom, they recall George VII seceding Earl's Court to Australia as one of the many secessions which broke up the country.

A Certain Magical Index
  • Queen Elizard - Debuted in the 17th light novel volume of the series. She is nearly deposed by her daughter, Princess Carissa, in a coup d'état with the Knights of England but managed to escape. She later used a magical artifact to help weaken her rebellious daughter and empower all of the peoples of the United Kingdom in the final battle against her in Buckingham Palace.

Arthur C. Clarke stories

Anno Domini 2000, or, Woman's Destiny by Sir Julius Vogel
  • Emperor Albert is the ruler of the Federated British Empire. He falls in love with and marries the Imperial Prime Minister Hilda Fitzherbert and becomes ruler of the former United States after a war sparked by his refusal to marry the President's daughter. Emperor Albert and Empress Hilda's views on royal primogeniture are ironically reversed by their views of their daughter and son.

Anno Dracula series by Kim Newman

Another Case of Milton Jones
  • Milton I, King of Middle England, played by Milton Jones. After accidentally leading a cavalry division over Tower Bridge (a treasonable offence) and fleeing London, Milton Jones briefly becomes King of Middle England due to his command over grammar and pronunciation in his former capacity as a royal speech therapist. He is captured after an uneventful war between the United Kingdom and Middle England and sentenced to death for treason, but is pardoned by the Queen after he cures Prince Herbert of his working class speech patterns by using rocket salad.

The Avengers
  • Queen Anne II
    • In The Avengers' episode Esprit de Corps, a Jacobitist coup against the British Government attempts to install Cathy Gale as Queen.

Blackadder
  • Richard IV of England (and XII of Scotland), a fictionalised version of Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (one of the Princes in the Tower), played by Brian Blessed. Having reigned from 1485 to 1498, succeeding his 'kind and thoughtful' uncle, Richard III, Henry Tudor erases Richard IV's reign, the Yorkist victory during the Wars of the Roses and Richard III's true nature from history.
  • Edmund the Blackadder, Richard IV's second son and the Duke of Edinburgh. He began a campaign to become King after being told by three witches that he would so (having been mistaken for Henry Tudor). After being mortally wounded from torture, he rules as King for thirty seconds after the entire court accidentally drank poisoned wine (which the Blackadder also drank).
  • Prince Ludwig the Indestructible, played by Hugh Laurie, killed Queen Elizabeth I and her court, which included Lord Blackadder, Lord Melchett, Lord Percy and Nursie, and disguised himself as the Queen, presumably continuing until the Queen's official death.
  • When Edmund Blackadder Esq. and George, the Prince Regent swap identities in order to get the latter out of a duel with the Duke of Wellington, Blackadder is saved by a cigarillo case presented by Wellington as a gift and the Prince Regent is shot by Wellington for impertinence when he reveals the ruse. The Prince Regent dies and Blackadder goes on to reign as George IV after George III mistakes him for his son.
  • Edmund III of the United Kingdom, played by Rowan Atkinson, became king in Blackadder: Back & Forth after using a time machine to alter history. He is married to Queen Marian of Sherwood and has installed Baldrick as a puppet prime minister after dissolving Parliament.

Books by William F. Buckley Jr.

Books by Joan Aiken
  • James III of the United Kingdom
  • Richard IV of the United Kingdom
    • King in The Cuckoo Tree and Dido and Pa Son of James III - he also appears as David Prince of Wales in The Whispering Mountain

Books by Kingsley Amis
  • Stephen II
    • Son of Arthur, Prince of Wales (d. 1502) and Katherine of Aragon.
    • His existence led his uncle Henry the Abominable (Henry VIII in our reality) to try to usurp the throne, but was foiled in the War of the English Succession.
    • Presumably, Stephen III and William V are his descendants.
    • Thereafter, King in The Alteration by Kingsley Amis.
  • Stephen III of England
    • King in The Alteration by Kingsley Amis. He is dead before the start of the novel, which opens with his state funeral at the St George Basilica at Coverley.
  • William V of England
    • King in The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
    • Son of Stephen III
  • Henry IX of England
    • King in The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick, the novel-within-a-novel depicting an alternate universe.
    • The real-life Henry, Duke of Cornwall, the son of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. In the novel-within-a-novel, he continues his father's Schismatic religious policies.
  • Elizabeth Tudor of England
    • Queen in Galliard by Keith Roberts (a pastiche of his novel Pavane), a novel-within-a-novel depicted in The Alteration by Kingsley Amis.
    • In Galliard, she is kidnapped and indoctrinated with Schismatic theology.

Books by A. Bertram Chandler
  • The coronation of James XIV of the Jacobite Kingdom of Waverley is mentioned in one of Chandler's stories, described as a ceremony of great pomp and broadcast throughout the human-settled galaxy.

Books by Peter Dickinson
  • Victor I, the historic Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, survives the influenza pandemic in 1892 and goes on to marry his prospective bride Mary of Teck (as detailed in the preamble of King and Joker).
  • Victor II, the grandson of Victor I and Queen Mary. Despite being a qualified physician, the British Government prevents him from practicing medicine over fears of lawsuits. He is secretly married bigamously to Isabella, the Queen Consort and her secretary, Anona Fellowes, the latter being Princess Louise's birth mother.

Books by Michael Moorcock

Books by Harry Turtledove
  • Henry IX of the United Kingdom is the reigning monarch in In the Presence of Mine Enemies, an alternate history wherein the Axis won World War II. While the king has very little direct power (the Nazis having annexed the UK), he is able to affect the politics of his country. His lineage is never addressed. The book mentions the Union of South Africa as an independent ally of the Reich which continues to practice Apartheid although it is unclear whether Henry IX is also the King of South Africa.
  • Charles III of the United Kingdom in The Two Georges, coauthored with Richard Dreyfus. While the character is described as being quite physically similar to the Prince of Wales, the fictional Charles III is actually descended from Edward VIII.
  • Edward VIII was able to retain his throne for much longer in both The Two Georges and the Southern Victory Series.
  • Edward IX is mentioned in The Two Georges as having reigned sometime in the 1970s, probably being the son of Edward VIII and the father or brother of Charles III.

Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore
  • William V is mentioned in passing as being king sometime during the first half of the twentieth century.

Carolus Rex series by Andre Norton and Rosemary Edghill
  • Charles III: On his deathbed Charles II confirms The Duke of Monmouth as his legitimate heir, avoiding Monmouth's Rebellion, the excesses of James II and the Glorious Revolution
  • Henry IX: King of the Great Britain as of 1805, the year the book is set in, and the great-great-grandson of Charles III.
  • Briefly, the book names Charles IV, James II and Charles V as monarchs reigning between Charles III and Henry IX

Cars 2

Chrestomanci series of books by Diana Wynne Jones
  • In Charmed Life, Cat Chant tells Janet Chant that the king is Charles VII.

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion
  • Charles zi Britannia
    • The 98th Emperor of the Holy Britannia Empire and father of main character, Lelouch Lamperouge. He installs his children in important positions in the Empire to see their true abilities. He views equality as an evil that must be dispelled and encourages social battle to maintain evolution within the society. As such, he publicly supports inequality and calls for competition and fighting so as to create progress.
  • Lelouch vi Britannia
    • The 99th Emperor of the Holy Britannia Empire, as well as the titular character of series. When Lelouch ascended to the throne during, he quickly abolished many policies that grew during the Charles' reign. These include the abolishment of aristocratic system, financial conglomerates, and the liberation of colonies. This led to discontent, and thus, agents and loyalist to Emperor Lelouch routinely goes and put down dissidents.

Columbia & Britannia by Adam Chamberlain and Brian A. Dixon
  • George V, the fictional second-eldest son of Queen Victoria.
  • Edward VII is the eldest son of George V. His relationship with his Québécois mistress Cynthia Grey and the resulting scandals almost result in him being forced to abdicate the throne. He retains the throne through a compromise stating that he and Grey should neither marry nor produce any children, the latter clause being broken by the births of their two (untitled) sons. Reigning from 1913 to 1918, he died heirless from acute pancreatitis.
  • George VI is the second eldest son of George V and the brother of Edward VII, analogous with the real-life George VI. He reigned from 1918 to 1953, overseeing Britain's effort in the War of Wars (1933–1943).
  • George VII is the only child of Elizabeth II. After his mother's assassination, he becomes King at the age of five; Princess Margaret, Elizabeth II's sister, acts as Regent to George VII until his coronation on his eighteenth birthday in 1976. A withdrawn and private figure, his public popularity is maintained due to sympathy regarding the conditions of his succession. He reigned from 1963.

Doctor Who
  • Queen Liz 10 – Played by Sophie Okenedo, Elizabeth X is the ruler of the Starship UK in The Beast Below, referring to herself and her predecessors by their abbreviated name and number.
  • Henry XII - Mentioned by Liz 10 as having the Doctor as a drinking buddy in The Beast Below.
  • The Night and the Doctor mini-series episode Bad Night features an unspecified Queen and Prince of Wales, the former appearing in the form of a goldfish and the latter speaking to the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond over the TARDIS telephone. The Doctor attempts to have the Queen restored to her human form but the hostage (in the form of a fly) he was hoping to exchange in order to achieve this is accidentally killed after Amy swatted it with a newspaper and the goldfish he picked up is not in fact the transmogrified Queen. The Commonwealth of Nations was mentioned as a contemporary institution.

The Emberverse series by S. M. Stirling
  • In the apocalyptic series that begins with Dies the Fire, some of the British Royal Family are evacuated to the Isle of Wight.[1]
  • Elizabeth II
    • The Queen fled to the Isle of Wight with the rest of the British Royal Family on the third day after The Change occurred. However, she died shortly thereafter in December 1998.
  • Charles III the Mad
    • The real life Prince of Wales. He ascended the British throne following the death of his mother Elizabeth II in December 1998, Charles led the remnants of Britain through the early years after the Change. His knowledge of organic farming (which he had been experimenting with since the early 1980s) helped the survivors with their food problems. He later married an Icelandic refugee, who was popularly blamed for manipulating him. In his later years he went insane and refused to have new elections for parliament and instead ruled by royal decree, which eventually caused a rift between him and Nigel. After about a decade on the throne, he officially died in 2008 of a stroke but it was a common rumor that he was killed by his wife who wanted to assume power for herself and her infant son.
  • William V the Great
    • The real life Duke of Cambridge. He became the King of Great Britain and Emperor of the West following the death of his father and after defeating a coup by his stepmother. After the Change occurred in 1998, William went to serve in the military. Nigel saved his life in a battle with pirates during this service. He personally led a "crusade" against Moorish pirates off the Canary Islands and on his return was crowned Emperor of the West. Under his leadership the British Empire was reborn. He tried unsuccessfully to convince Nigel to return to Britain by promising him wealth, land, and title. He would serve as king from 2008 until his death in a fox-hunting accident in 2039.
  • Charles IV
    • Fictional son of William V. Served as King of Great Britain and Emperor of the West from 2039 until his death in 2066.
  • Elizabeth III
    • Daughter of Charles IV. Served as the Queen of Great Britain and Empress of the West from 2066 to 2098.

Futurama
  • In the episode "All the Presidents' Heads", an unnamed Queen of Great Britain, North America (also called 'West Britannia') and 'two parking spaces in Tokyo' reigns in the 31st Century due to the Planet Express crew accidentally preventing the American Revolution whilst trying to prevent counterfeiting by Professor Farnsworth's ancestor David Farnsworth. The Queen is descended from the Farnsworth family due to their elevation to a ducal family with its members providing consorts for the Royal Family.

The Gate of Worlds by Robert Silverberg
  • James the Valiant - the Black Death, much worse than in our history, so weakened Europe that the entire continent was conquered by the Ottoman Empire. In the 20th Century, the freedom fighter James made use of a period of Ottoman instability, led a successful rebellion, liberated England after five centuries of Turkish rule and inaugurated a new Royal Dynasty. English people were happy and proud of James the Valiant's achievement - though the independent England was an impoverished country, of little account in the wider world.

The Great Mouse Detective
  • Queen Mousetoria is the mouse queen of England who has been deposed by the evil Professor Ratigan but gets rescued by Basil of Baker Street and Dr. Dawson.
  • Professor Padraic Ratigan attempts to conquer England as a "supreme ruler of all Mousedom" with his toy robot that mimics the real Queen declaring it.

Headlong by Emlyn Williams
  • John II: The actor Jack Green, who is grandson of Prince Albert Victor and made king after the royal family is killed in a dirigible accident during George V's Silver Jubilee in 1935.
  • William V: Originally William Millingham, is the private secretary of John II, and as another descendant of royalty, becomes the new king after John's abdication.
  • John III: The son of William V and Anne, the Queen Consort. John III is his suggested regnal name, being only the ten-year-old Prince of Wales in the story.

Henry IX
  • In the 2017 TV series Henry IX, Henry IX of the United Kingdom is played by Charles Edwards. After his older brother John died in a horse riding accident, Henry became heir apparent to the British throne, becoming king in 1992. After nearly twenty-five years on the throne, he experiences a midlife crisis and intends to abdicate on his Silver Jubilee. Queen Katarina (played by Sally Phillips) stymies his plans by clandestinely leaking his plans to the press. After Alastair, the Prince of Wales, comes out as gay and creates a succession crisis (as no-one other than the homophobic Duke of Cumberland would willingly become monarch), Henry IX retains the throne. However, almost immediately, his secret relationship with the royal florist is uncovered by the tabloid press.

Her Majesty's American by Steve White
  • Maurice I: The only son of William III and Mary II, he becomes king at the age of thirteen in 1702, born one year after the Glorious Revolution. His birth and reign ensures that British monarchs would concurrently hold the title of Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic.
  • William V: His reign saw the outbreak of the First American Rebellion in 1775 with rapprochement bringing about the creation of the Viceroyalty of North America in 1781.
  • Maurice II: Mentioned as being king sometime during the early-nineteenth century.
  • William VII: Adopts the titles Emperor of North America and Emperor of India following the Second American Rebellion and the Great Mutiny respectively.

House of Cards
  • In the British political satire To Play the King, the second book (and TV series) in the House of Cards trilogy by Michael Dobbs, an unnamed King takes the throne. He goes up against the utterly ruthless and unscrupulous Prime Minister Francis Urquhart as an unofficial Leader of the Opposition but is ultimately undone and forced to abdicate. The novel diverges in many ways from the TV series and carries the suggestion that after abdicating the ex-King would go into politics and seek to be elected Prime Minister. At the end of To Play The King, the King's son is crowned and during The Final Cut is depicted performing monarchical duties.

Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
  • William XXIII of the Kingdom of Windsor-in-Exile
    • Also called "Sad King Billy"
    • King on Asquith, a planet traditionally held by his kingdom
    • Sells Asquith in order to settle on the planet Hyperion, where he intends to revive fine art, taking Martin Silenus with him.

If: A Jacobite Fantasy by Charles Petrie
  • James III of England and VIII of Scotland - The Jacobite rising of 1745, led by Charles Edward Stuart, succeeded in restoring the House of Stuart to the British throne. In February 1746, his father arrived in London to officially take the throne. In 1752, he granted clemency to the Hanoverian rebels. By 1926, the House of Hanover's usurpation of the throne was viewed as "an interlude in the national life, but it was one that will not have been without its purpose if it is regarded as a lesson upon the consequences of rebellion."
  • Charles III of England and Scotland: James III's eldest son. Charles III allied himself with Frederick II of Prussia and, together, they "towered over the other rulers of Europe like colossi" from 1766 until Frederick's death in 1786. During his reign, the colonies in British North America rebelled against Great Britain but a diplomatic solution was reached. Charles III was credited with saving the situation by his witty remark to George Washington, who went on to become one of Britain's greatest generals, and his colleagues: "Gentlemen, we have one thing in common: my family have no more cause to like the House of Commons than you have."
  • Henry IX of England and I of Scotland: James III's second son. As Duke of York, his patronage helped ensure the flourishing of literature and art in Britain and this policy continued after he came to the throne as Henry IX. After the French Revolution drove the deposed Electors of Hanover into exile in 1789, he gave them a "generous pension."
  • James IV of England and IX of Scotland, presumably the son of Henry IX and I
  • James V of England and X of Scotland
  • James VI of England and XI of Scotland was the reigning monarch in 1926.

In the Cage Where Your Saviours Hide by Malcolm Mackay
  • In an alternate reality where the Darien scheme was successful, Scotland remained an independent country with its own colony of Caledonia in Central America. Kenneth IV was mentioned as the King of Scotland in 1905, conducting a royal visit to Caledonia during mounting calls for independence.

Infinite Worlds
  • William III of England (in the 12th rather than the 17th Century)
  • Unbroken Plantagenet Monarchs until the 19th Century.

In the GURPS role-playing game Infinite Worlds, in the year 1120 the White Ship carrying William the Aetheling, the heir of Henry I of England, did not hit a rock in the English Channel. William survived the voyage and eventually assumed the throne - becoming known as William III of England. Neither the Empress Matilda nor Stephen of Blois had any claim on the throne. William's descendants constituted more than seven centuries of English monarchs, with the House of Plantagenet retaining unbroken power. Ultimately the "Anglo-French Empire" became a world-spanning power, achieving an Industrial Revolution much earlier. However, in 1902 unknown parties detonated a nuclear device, destroying the royal family.

Johnny English
  • Pascal Sauvage I of the United Kingdom: Played by John Malkovich, Sauvage is a French private prison entrepreneur who engineered his accession to the British throne in order to convert the entire United Kingdom into a giant prison facility.
  • Johnny English: Played by Rowan Atkinson, he was accidentally crowned king. Abdicating after one day in favour of Queen Elizabeth II, English exchanged the throne for a knighthood.

King Ralph
  • Wyndham Family, the ruling House of the United Kingdom in the 1991 film King Ralph, who are all killed in a photography accident.
  • Ralph I of the United Kingdom, played by John Goodman, was an American lounge singer who came to the throne following the Wyndham family's demise.
  • Cedric I of the United Kingdom, played by Peter O'Toole, took power after Ralph I abdicated the throne.

The Last Man by Mary Shelley
  • Adrian, Earl of Windsor: In a post-apocalyptic 21st century, Britain is a republic with a Lord Protector as head of state where Adrian, the son of the last king and heir to the British throne, embraces republican principles.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
  • Nan Bollen
  • Gloriana I
  • Jacob I
  • Gloriana II

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
  • In an alternate timeline accidentally created by Clark Kent, Lois Lane and H. G. Wells in the episode "Soul Mates", Tempus was the King of America in 1996.

Lord Darcy novels
  • John IV of the Anglo-French Empire
  • Arthur I
    • In the history of the same timeline Arthur I, Duke of Brittany, Richard I's nephew, got to be King and proved one of the greatest Kings of English history. His reign came to be considered a Golden Age, to the extent that later generations popular imagination confused him with King Arthur of heroic myth. A major achievement of Arthur's time was the beginning of systematic research and codification of magic, which would later become a central aspect of human civilization.

Marvel Comics
  • King Britain of Britain, though technically he rules the whole of Europe. He is king in the Earth X setting, and an alternate future version of Captain Britain.

Minions
  • King Bob the Minion
    • In 2015 animated film Minions, Bob the Minion briefly takes over the crown from Queen Elizabeth II in 1968 after accidentally crashing into the Sword in the Stone and pulling it free. He later abdicates the throne in favor of supervillain Scarlet.
  • Scarlet
    • Takes over the throne from Bob the Minion. After her defeat at the end of the film, Elizabeth II reclaims the throne.

The Moon Maid and Moon Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Published in the early 1920s, The Moon Maid and The Moon Men envisioned a twentieth century in which "The Great War" would have gone on uninterrupted, though with varying intensity, from 1914 and until 1967 – ending with the total victory of the Anglo-Saxon Powers, Britain and the US, and the complete defeat and surrender of all other powers. Britain and the US thereupon become co-rulers of the planet, London and Washington being the twin planetary capitals and the US President and British Monarch acting as co-rulers, and with the British-American domination of the world imposed by the International Peace Fleet, made up of airships. In the first decades of the 21st century, the world basks in peace, there seems no enemy and no threat anywhere, and pressure grows for complete disarmament and scrapping of the International Peace Fleet. It is the (unnamed) King of Britain who strongly resists this pressure, and due to him half of the Fleet and of the world's armament industries are retained. This is not enough to resist the invasion fleet of the wild Kalkars from the Moon, led by the renegade Earthman Orthis, which suddenly descends on the world in 2050, capturing London and Washington and ranging the world at will. But by the British King's foresight there was still a remnant of the Fleet in existence, which kills the renegade Orthis – facilitating humanity's eventual liberation from Kalkar domination, though only centuries later.

The Napoleon of Notting Hill
  • Auberon Quin in The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton. In this book the ruler of the United Kingdom is selected randomly from the "official class", which one character describes as "the sane and enduring democracy ... founded on the fact that all men are equally idiotic".

Nation by Terry Pratchett
  • After influenza kills the entire British royal family, Governor Fanshaw is the heir to the throne and is sought out in the South Pacific. His daughter Ermentrude Fanshaw ("Daphne") is his heir and succeeds him on the throne and becomes queen.

Old Harry's Game
  • Derek I
    • Deceased historian Edith Barrington (played by Annette Crosbie) is forced to write a biography of Satan as part of a deal to no longer be billeted with her ex-son-in-law Thomas Crimp, the most vile human ever to have lived. Edith discovers numerous inaccuracies in official recorded histories and becomes frustrated by newly-revealed actual historical events. One of them is the existence of Derek I, a Tudor monarch forgotten by history. Satan's assistant Scumspawn (played by Robert Duncan) recalls the monarch as 'the mad, black, Catholic lesbian', personally believing that she was undone by her Catholicism.

The Palace
  • King James III
    • The previous ruler.
  • King Richard IV
    • Son of James III, played by Rupert Evans.
    • Prior to his coronation, his sister Princess Eleanor (played by Sophie Winkleman) attempted unsuccessfully to discredit him in order to claim the throne for herself.

Passport to Pimlico
  • Sébastien de Charolais
    • The descendant of Charles the Bold, the presumed last Duke of Burgundy, he is installed as the Duke of a revived Burgundy in post-Second World War Pimlico. After becoming a market for off-the-ration goods and being subsequently blockaded (albeit unsuccessfully), Burgundy is readmitted into the United Kingdom.

Pavane by Keith Roberts
  • Charles the Good
    • In an alternate reality where the assassination of Elizabeth I results in the suppression of Protestantism and the ascendancy of the Catholic Church as a European and world power by the twentieth century, Charles the Good is the King of England and the nominal ruler of the New World. In the story Corfe Gate, a regional rebellion led by Lady Eleanor breaks out during his reign.

The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling
  • Victoria II reigned from 1921 to 1942. Presumably the eldest surviving child of George V, she was hedonistic, intelligent and sexually liberal; most of what defined her reign is whitewashed out of history books. She died unmarried and without issue.
  • Albert I, the cousin of Victoria II and a former Professor of Indo-European Languages, reigned from 1942 to 1989.
  • Elizabeth II, reigned from 1989 to 2005. She is known as the 'Whig Empress' for pushing for the right for women to study at universities.
  • King-Emperor John II is the ruler of the British Empire (Angrezi Raj) in an alternate history set in 2025. He was the second son of Elizabeth II, his older brother Edward having predeceased him. He was killed when the Imperial air yacht Garuda was hijacked and heavily damaged by the captain, a radical Afrikaner nationalist, in collaboration with the Russian Empire.
  • Charles III, the son of John II. Reigned from 2025 onwards.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Revolting People
  • Samuel I
    • While en route to a ball to convince George III to liberalise the governance of the Thirteen Colonies and thus avert the American Revolution, Baltimore shopkeeper Samuel Oliphant (played by Jay Tarses) dreams that he has been appointed by popular demand as King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Empire 'especially America', acting as an absolutist despot. Samuel's dream ends with his assassination by his firebrand daughter Mary.

The Royals
  • King Simon Henstridge, played by Vincent Regan, dies in Season 1.
  • Prince Cyrus Henstridge, Duke of York, played by Jake Maskall, briefly succeeded Simon after his son Robert is thought to have been killed in a plane crash and his twin children Prince Liam and Princess Eleanor were deemed illegitimate.
  • King Robert Henstridge, played by Max Brown, succeeded his father after revealing himself to be alive.

Sliders
  • In the parallel universe featured in the Sliders episode "The Prince of Wails" in which Great Britain won the American Revolutionary War, King Thomas was the reigning monarch of the British Empire until he was killed during the war with France in 1995.
  • Harold III (the uncrowned 'Prince of the Americas' and 'heir to the British throne') succeeded his father Thomas in 1995. He had been targeted in a plot involving a smear campaign and an assassination attempt by the Sheriff of San Francisco (that reality's Maximilian Arturo) to seize the Crown for himself. After being briefly kidnapped by the revolutionary Oakland Raiders, he is made aware of the Sheriff's deception and the true condition of the British States of America. He joins forces with the Raiders and the Sliders to denounce the Sheriff and introduce democracy via the implementation of a 'Second Magna Carta' (a version of the United States Constitution written from memory by the Sliders).

The Tales of Alvin Maker by Orson Scott Card
  • As a result of the continued existence of the Commonwealth of England, the exiled House of Stuart establishes the Crown Colonies, a monarchy on the American Eastern seaboard co-existing with a New England Republic and a smaller United States.

The Time Ships
  • Egbert I of the United Kingdom
    • King in The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter, a sequel to The Time Machine by H.G. Wells.
    • Note: The novel's protagonist, visiting an alternate version of the Great War, is surprised to discover that the King is "a skinny chap called Egbert", apparently a distant cousin of the Royal Family who was the most senior survivor of massive German bombing raids early in the conflict.

The Virgin & the Wheels
  • David I of the United Kingdom and North America
    • King in The Virgin & The Wheels by L. Sprague de Camp.
    • His birthday celebrated in New York City, all streets festooned with Union Jacks. New Yorkers regard him fondly as "Our King" and see nothing strange about being under British rule into the mid-20th century. The day's paper told of "His Majesty's visit to a soap factory, where he showed a keen interest in the technical details" and of the launch of the cruise ship Queen Victoria.

V for Vendetta
  • Queen Zara of the United Kingdom
    • Queen in V for Vendetta (comic book)
    • Following a nuclear war in the 1980s, the crown falls to Zara, a 16-year-old queen who serves as a puppet monarch for Adam Susan and his fascist Norsefire party.

Yellow Dog by Martin Amis
  • Henry IX
  • Richard IV, mentioned as being the father of Henry IX

The United States

Assassin's Creed

Sliders
  • In the parallel universe featured in the Sliders episode "The Prince of Tides" in which the United States became a constitutional monarchy, Thomas Jefferson was crowned as the first King of the United States in 1789. His direct descendants continued to reign more than 200 years later. The reigning monarch King Thomas and his sons Benjamin and Tyler were killed in a house fire in 1997, which was later determined to be arson.

Star Spangled Crown by Charles A. Coulombe
  • King James IV of the United States
    • Born Hans-Josef II of Lichtenburg
    • Conferred authority in the wake of a military coup whose leaders reconstitute the United States as a constitutional monarchy
    • Formally "James IV, King of the United States and of their Possessions, Grand Duke of Lichtenberg"

Fictional countries

Kingdom of Acorn

The Kingdom of Acorn is featured in the Archie Comics series Sonic the Hedgehog.

  • King Maximillian Acorn (also known as King Nigel Acorn) is the rightful ruler of the Kingdom of Acorn and the father of Elias and Sally Acorn.
  • Elias Acorn becomes the new King of the Kingdom of Acorn after his father's abdication.

Agatean Empire

The Agatean Empire is featured in the Discworld series of novels.

  • One Sung Mirror, the first Agatean Emperor and unifier of the Counterweight Continent.
  • A number of unnamed emperors are featured or mentioned in the Discworld novels. The first emperor, introduced in The Colour of Magic, is described as young, being frequently overruled by his Grand Vizier Nine Revolving Mirrors; in Mort, Nine Revolving Mirrors mentions that the young emperor's father and grandfather also reigned as emperor. Prior to the events of Interesting Times, he was assassinated and succeeded by his uncle, a near-dead sadist.
  • In Interesting Times, succession to the Agatean throne is determined by war between five noble families, the Hongs, the Sungs, the Tangs, the McSweeneys and the Fangs; hereditary succession is rare. The Grand Vizier, Lord Hong, attempted to install himself as Emperor by orchestrating a revolution by the ineffective Red Army (mostly consisting of children held back by Agatean respect for authority) and leading the subsequent counter-revolution; he then becomes leader of the armies of the five noble families in a brief war against the Silver Horde.
  • Cohen the Barbarian conquers the Agatean Empire in Interesting Times with the Silver Horde as part of his retirement plan, adopting the regnal name Ghengis Cohen. However, he and his allies abandon it in The Last Hero in order to exact revenge on the Discworld gods at Dunmanifestin for allowing heroes to grow old and die. In The Discworld Atlas, Cohen is referred to as the 'Last Emperor', the Empire being replaced by a 'People's Beneficial Republic' led by a 'Chairman Butterfly'.

Agrabah
  • The Sultan of the fictional Middle Eastern country of Agrabah, and the father of Princess Jasmine in Disney's Aladdin franchise.

Alderaan

Aldovia

The nation of Aldovia is featured in the Netflix holiday film A Christmas Prince and its sequels The Royal Wedding and The Royal Baby.

  • Queen Helena, the dowager monarch of Aldovia and the mother of Richard and Emily.
  • King Richard, the former crown prince, becomes the new monarch of Aldovia after his mother's abdication.

Alvonia
  • King Charles V is the ruler of the small kingdom of Alvonia, even though he is still a child, in the film My Pal, the King.

Andalasia

The magical kingdom of Andalasia is featured in the Disney animated/live-action film Enchanted.

  • Queen Narissa was the evil sovereign of Andalasia who feared that she would loose the throne when her stepson Prince Edward finds his perfect bride. She is inspired by the characters of the Wicked Queen (Snow White), Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty), and Lady Tremaine (Cinderella).
  • Prince Edward briefly becomes the new ruler of Andalasia at the end of the film after his stepmother's death and defeat, with his new fiancée Nancy Tremaine becoming a princess.

Ankh-Morpork

Ankh-Morpork is featured in the Discworld series of novels.

  • Queen Alguinna IV
  • King Artorollo
    • Mentioned in Mort as the reigning monarch of Ankh-Morpork when the Archchancellor and founder of the Unseen University Alberto Malich attempted to perform the Rite of AshkEnte backwards.
  • King Cirone IV
  • Queen Coanna
  • King Loyana the Aaargh
    • The shortest reigning monarch in Morporkian history, ruling for 1.13 seconds from coronation to assassination.
  • King Ludwig the Tree
    • Issued numerous bizarre proclamations including the need to develop a new type of frog.
    • Responsible for the motto of Ankh-Morpork, Quanti Canicula Ille In Fenestra ('How much is that doggie in the window').
  • King Paragore
  • King Tyrril
  • King Veltrick I
    • Founded the 'Ankh-Morpork City Watch and Ward' in AM 1561 with his personal motto 'Fabricati Diem, Puncti Agunt Celeriter' ('Make the Day, the Moments Pass Quickly') becoming that of the new police force.
  • King Veltrick II
    • Assassinated his father Veltrick II four days after his founding of the 'Ankh-Morpork City Watch and Ward', letting it fall into disarray and obscurity due to a disinterest in maintaining a police force.
  • King Veltrick III
  • King Webblethorpe the Unconscious
  • King Lorenzo the Kind
    • Ankh-Morpork's last and worst king, a sadistic torturer who was 'very fond of children'.
    • He was overthrown in the Ankh-Morpork Civil War of AM 1688 and subsequently beheaded by Commander of the City Watch Suffer-Not-Injustice 'Old Stoneface' Vimes as no judge would preside over the king's trial. Lorenzo was succeeded by a series of equally or even more tyrannical Patricians, after the people voted against Vimes' attempts to introduce democracy.
  • Rex Vivat
    • During Guards! Guards!, the Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night overthrow the Patrican, Havelock Vetinari, and install a false pretender (a distant cousin of the lodge master who is not part of the Ankh-Morporkian royal bloodline) as puppet king. This is arranged by the summoning of a dragon (with the use of a book stolen from the Library of the Unseen University) and its subsequent banishment by the pretender. The pretender is readily adopted by the Ankh-Morporkian citizenry as their king despite not knowing his name, 'Rex Vivat' being his assumed name as it was on all of the royal banners. The false king was killed by the dragon shortly after being crowned.
  • Dragon
    • During Guards! Guards!, the dragon banished from the city by the new king returns and installs itself as the new king, keeping lodge master Lupine Wonse as its mouthpiece and demanding gold and virgins. It ultimately leaves the city, revealing itself as female after being courted by Errol, a swamp dragon.
  • Captain Carrot Ironfounderson
    • A member of the City Watch, he is told of his royal heritage in Men at Arms from the Chief of the Assassins Dr Cruces, who had taken over Edward d'Eath's plot to restore the Ankh-Morpork monarchy.
    • He does not acknowledge his claim, preferring instead to be a watchman. He has, on occasion, exercised any royal prerogative he might have when the need arises.
    • He has demonstrated various obvious signs that he is a royal scion including a crown-shaped birth mark, his natural leadership skills and his ability to put a sword into stone without cracking it.
    • Lord Vetinari keeps Carrot near in order to prevent coups by false pretenders and to exercise powers reserved only for the king through implied consent from Carrot.
  • Corporal Cecil Wormsborough St. John 'Nobby' Nobbs
    • A member of the City Watch, he may or may not be an illegitimate member of the de Nobbes family and the great-grandson of the last Earl of Ankh (making him second-in-line to the Ankh-Morpork throne after Captain Carrot). His potential relationship to the de Nobbes family was revealed in Feet of Clay as part of a plot to restore the monarchy with the Guilds and the ruling families wishing to replace Lord Vetinari with a puppet but ultimately with Dragon, King of Arms (the city's chief heraldry expert and vampire) wishing to prevent Captain Carrot producing a future part-werewolf royal line with his girlfriend Sergeant Angua. Commander Vimes reasoned that, given how the Nobbses stole so many things over the years (possibly including the de Nobbes arms ring), Nobby could be proven to be 'the Duke of Pseudopolis, the Serif of Klatch and the Dowager Duchess of Quirm'; however, Nobby later reveals that his family possesses a larger collection of noble jewels which could prove his noble ancestry.

Ant Island

Ant Island is the colony of ants in the Disney-Pixar animated film A Bug's Life.

  • The Ant Queen is the former ruler of Ant Island and the leader of the ant colony.
  • Princess Atta becomes the new Queen of Ant Island after her mother's abdication at the end of the film.

Araluen

The island nation of Araluen is featured in the Ranger's Apprentice novel series.

  • King Herbert
    • The very first ruler who established Araluen after driving the wild tribesmen of the Scotti out of his country and back into their homeland Picta. He also established the Ranger Corps organization as the intelligence force of the country and assigned a Ranger to each of the fiefs.
  • King Oswald
    • An old, previous ruler of Araluen whose mind became so weak that he made the mistake of creating a group of ambitious barons into his council who would then take control of his country by manipulating him and taking advantage of his state of mind. After when Oswald died, the evil Baron Morgarath of Gorlan Fief attempted to take over Araluen, employing the help of the fearsome, mythical creatures called the Kalkara. However, Oswald's son and heir, Duncan, defeated Morgarath and driven him into the Mountains of Rain and Night. King Oswald was only mentioned briefly in The Lost Stories.
  • King Duncan
    • He has been the new ruler of Araluen after his father's death and Baron Morgarath's defeat until in The Emperor of Nihon-Ja where he is no longer fit to reign, leading his daughter Princess Cassandra and future son-in-law Horace Altman to eventually become queen and prince regent. Duncan is also the knight of his own country as well as a widower after when his wife Queen Rosalind Serenne died shortly after giving birth to Cassandra.
  • Cassandra (aka Evanlyn Wheeler)
    • Formerly a crown princess, she becomes the Queen Regent of Araluen after the abdication of her father. She has been the only heiress to her throne whose laws of succession was changed by her late grandfather Oswald sometime before she was born to allow a female heir to succeed the throne. Cassandra is also married to a knight and prince consort, Horace Altman, with whom she has a daughter Princess Madelyn, as seen in The Royal Ranger: A New Beginning.

Archenland

The kingdom of Archenland is featured in The Chronicles of Narnia novel series.

  • King Col was the first ruler of Archenland, son of King Frank V of Narnia.
  • King Lune was the widower and the second ruler of Archenland.
  • Cor (aka Shasta), son of King Lune, becomes the new king of Archenland with Aravis as his queen.
  • Ram the Great, son of King Cor and Queen Aravis, is the "most famous" king of Archenland.
  • King Nain becomes a ruler of Archenland during the reigning of Miraz.

Arendelle

The fictional Norwegian kingdom of Arendelle is featured in Disney's Frozen franchise.

  • King Runeard was the previous sovereign of Arendelle in the animated film sequel Frozen II.
  • King Agnarr, Runeard's son, was the second former sovereign of Arendelle and the late father of Elsa and Anna in the first film Frozen.
  • Elsa the Snow Queen becomes a monarch of Arendelle after her father's death but ends up setting off an eternal winter that consumes her entire kingdom.
  • Anna, the former princess, becomes the new Queen of Arendelle after Elsa's abdication in Frozen II.

Arulco
  • Queen Deidranna Reitman, the evil ruler of an island nation of Arulco in the video game Jagged Alliance 2.

Arus/Altea
  • King Alfor was the ruler of Arus (Altea in Japanese) in the Voltron franchise.
  • Princess Allura (also known as Princess Farla in Japanese) becomes a ruler of Arus after the death of King Alfor as well as the new pilot of the Blue Lion after Sven's retirement.

Atlantica

Atlantis

Multiple fictional works have portrayed the legendary civilization of Atlantis as a monarchy.

Atlantida (a.k.a. L'Atlantide)
  • Queen Antinea, the ruler of Atlantis in the novel Atlantida (aka L'Atlantide) and its several film adaptations.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Atlantis is featured in the Disney animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire and its direct-to-video sequel Milo's Return, which are inspired by the ideas of Edgar Cayce.

  • King Kashekim Nedakh was the previous ruler of the lost island kingdom of Atlantis.
  • Milo James Thatch becomes the King of Atlantis with Queen Kida Nedakh, Kashekim's daughter, as his wife.

DC Comics

The Fairly OddParents

Atlantis has occasionally appeared in the animated television series The Fairly OddParents, in which it is inhabited by merpeople.

  • Greg, a king-like leader in Atlantis in the episode "Something's Fishy!".
  • King Neptuna, the ruler of Atlantis in the episode "Dadlantis".

Marvel Comics
  • Emperor Thakorr was the ruler of Atlantis in the Marvel Comics universe.
  • Namor becomes the monarch (his title varies) of Atlantis after Thakorr's reign.

Avalor

The fictional Latin-American kingdom of Avalor is featured in the Disney Junior animated series Elena of Avalor.

  • King Raul was the ruler of the kingdom of Avalor and the father of Princesses Elena and Isabel. He was killed by the evil sorceress Shuriki.
  • Crown Princess Elena Castillo Flores has to become a rightful ruler of the kingdom of Avalor after her father's death. Her main goal is to prevent Shuriki from taking over her kingdom.

Azania
  • Emperor Seth, the Oxford-graduated ruler of the imperial African nation of Azania who is assisted by his college friend Basil Seal to modernize his empire following a civil war in the novel Black Mischief.

Baronia

Belgardia
  • King Maxmilian is the dotty ruler of the European kingdom of Belgardia and the father of Princess Tania (aka Catherine Bell) in the film King Kelly of the U.S.A.

Bongo Congo
  • King Leonardo is an anthropomorphic lion who is the well-being but often inept ruler of the fictional African kingdom of Bongo Congo in the animated television series King Leonardo and His Short Subjects.

Borogravia

Borogravia is featured in the Discworld series of novels.

  • Duchess Annagovia is the ruler of Borogravia at the time of events of Monstrous Regiment. The Duchess achieved virtual godhood amongst her subjects due to the growing number of impractical and inconvenient 'Abominations Unto Nuggan'. The war between Borogravia and neighbouring Zlobenia was, in part, motivated by the Prince Heinrich's attempt to assert his claim to the Duchy, believing that the Duchess had been dead for some time.

Borovia
  • King Otto is the monarch of the land of Borovia and the single father of Princesses Lucy and Loretta, in the British animated series The Big Knights.

Borsovia
  • King Boris is the sovereign of the Kingdom of Borsovia in the British children's series A Rubovian Legend.

Bretzelburg
  • King Ladislas of Bretzelburg, in the Spirou et Fantasio comic series.

Burger King Kingdom

Cadonia
  • King Alexis is the rightful sovereign of the country of Cadonia who leaves in his disguise, in the two-act musical King of Cadonia.

Caledonia

Caledonia is a European sovereign kingdom country in television series Scandal season five episode "Heavy is the Head". It is based in the United Kingdom.

  • Queen Isabel, monarch of Caledonia. During the episode "Heavy Is the Head", she makes a state visit to the United States to negotiate with President Fitzgerald Grant the opening of a new naval base and arranges the assassination of Princess Emily after becoming pregnant during an affair with one of her security detail. She is based on Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
  • Prince Richard becomes a monarch of Caledonia. After Olivia Pope reveals to him the role his mother played in his wife's death (having been originally hired to deal with press reaction to the incident), he forces her to abdicate on grounds of 'ill health'. He refuses to allow the United States to open a naval base in his kingdom. He is based in Prince Charles of Wales.

Candy Kingdom

Clonmel

The kingdom of Clonmel is part of the fictional island continent of Hibernia in the Ranger's Apprentice novel series.

  • Halt O'Carrick, the former crown prince and retired Ranger, was meant to be the heir to the throne of Clonmel but has been sabotaged by his younger twin brother Ferris, as it is revealed in The Kings of Clonmel.
  • Ferris O'Carrick was the King of Clonmel who attempted to kill Halt at least triple time when they were young. He was said to be jealous of power, but generally weak monarch.
  • Sean O'Carrick, Halt and Ferris's nephew, takes the throne and becomes a new ruler of Clonmel after when Ferris was killed by the infamous Genovesan Assassins and when Halt adbicated this throne.

Cordinia
  • Queen Isadora is the sovereign of the small country of Cordinia and the mother of Prince Leopold (aka Leo James) in the Hallmark Channel holiday television film A Royal Christmas.

Corona

The island kingdom of Corona is featured in Disney's Tangled franchise. It is inspired by Le Mont-Saint-Michel.

  • Herz Der Sonne, the first previous king of Corona.
  • Robin XI, the previous king of Corona.
  • King Frederic, the current monarch of Corona and the biological father of Rapunzel.

Costa Luna

The small nation of Costa Luna is featured in the Disney Channel television film Princess Protection Program.

  • The unnamed King was the former ruler of Costa Luna, husband of Queen Sophia Fiore and the late father of Rosalinda Fiore.
  • General Magnus Kane, the villainous dictator, has invaded and taken over Costa Luna as well as plotting to marry Queen Sophia Fiore.
  • Rosalinda Montoya Fiore (aka Rosie Gonzalez), a former princess, becomes a crowned Queen of Costa Luna after dethroning General Kane.

Dale

Dark Kingdom

The Dark Kingdom is led by the evil, reigning queen regnants in the manga series Sailor Moon.

  • Queen Beryl was the ruler of the Dark Kingdom who was able to summon Prince Endymion of the Earth Kingdom, whom she had the affections to, as a lifeless thrall to her side. She recruited her four reincarnated generals called the Four Kings of Heaven to find the Silver Crystal that revived Prince Endymion with a fragment inside him. Unfortunately, Beryl failed in her attempt to get the Silver Crystal and was killed by Sailor Venus with the Holy Moon Sword.
  • Queen Metaria is the true mastermind and the amorphous energy being of the Dark Kingdom who associates with the corrupted Queen Beryl and is responsible for the fall of the Silver Millennium. She is an incarnation of Chaos, the final arch-villain, and summons a reborn Beryl into her service to obtain the Silver Crystal that she takes its power as her own. However, after when Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion restore the Silver Crystal and then escape with it, Metaria has been destroyed as the Silver Crystal's power was used to bring the entire populations of Earth back to life.

Disney Castle

Disney Castle is featured in the Kingdom Hearts video game series.

  • Mickey Mouse plays the role of the King of Disney Castle who is an experienced Keyblade Master and travels to different worlds to battle the forces of darkness, alongside his allies Sora, Donald Duck and Goofy.
  • Minnie Mouse is the Queen of Disney Castle who rules when her husband Mickey is absent.

Djelibeybi

Djelibeybi is featured in the Discworld series of novels.

  • Pteppicymon XXVII, father of Teppic and Ptracia.
  • Pteppicymon XXVIII (aka Teppic), the main character in Pyramids.
  • Ptracia I, Teppic's half-sister who implements numerous reforms to the old kingdom after her half-brother's abdication.

Donpa Kingdom

The Donpa Kingdom has been mentioned in the video game Team Sonic Racing.

  • Dodon Pa, the anthropomorphic alien tanuki, is the King of the Donpa Kingdom and the President of the Donpa Motors automotive corporation who invites Sonic the Hedgehog and his company to compete in the series of team-based races.

Dor

DunBroch
  • King Fergus is the reigning monarch of the fictional Scottish kingdom of DunBorch, the father of Princess Merida and Princes Harris, Hubert and Hamish, and husband of Queen Elinor in the Disney-Pixar animated film Brave.

Dunwyn

Earth Kingdom

The Earth Kingdom is featured in the Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise. The ruler of the Earth Kingdom is known as the "Earth King" or "Earth Queen".

  • Earth King Kuei, the 52nd monarch of the Earth Kingdom. He first appears in the second season of the original animated TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender.
  • Earth Queen Hou-Ting, the 53rd monarch of the Earth Kingdom and the daughter of Kuei. She first appears in the third season of the sequel series The Legend of Korra.

Empire of the Isles
  • Jessamine Kaldwin is the Empress of the capital of the Empire of the Isles, Dunwall, and the mother of Princess Emily Kaldwin in the Dishonored video game series.

Enchancia

Equestria

Leading Equestria are five powerful regnant coregency princesses from the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic franchise.

Erebonia

The Empire of Erebonia is part of the fictional continent of Zemuria in the video game The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel.

  • Emperor Eugent Reise Arnor III is the imperial ruler of Erebonia who resides at the Valflame Palace in the empire's capital, Heimdallr. He is the father of Crown Prince Cedric and Princess Alfin and their half-brother Prince Olivert.

Erebor/Lonely Mountain

Estrovia

Land of Ev

The Land of Ev is featured on the Oz novel series.

  • King Evoldo was the previous ruler of the Land of Ev who was a cruel despot as he sold his wife, the Queen of Ev, and his five sons and five daughters to the Nome King in exchange for a longer life after purchasing the clockwork man Tik-Tok.
  • Princess Langwidere, Evoldo's vain and spoiled niece, has taken the throne as the regent of the Land of Ev and has a collection of thirty interchangeable heads that she keeps in a cabinet studded with gems. She switches her heads, instead of her clothing, to match her current state of mood whenever she pleases.
  • King Evardo XV, eldest of Evoldo's ten children, becomes a new and current ruler of the Land of Ev after his cousin Langwidere is relieved to give up the throne to him.

Fantastica/Fantasia

Far Far Away

The kingdom of Far Far Away is featured in DreamWorks' Shrek franchise. It is a parody of Hollywood, California.

Fire Nation

The Fire Nation is featured in the Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise. The ruler of the Fire Nation holds the title of "Fire Lord" and is the head of a royal family in which the Fire Lord's children are known as "princes" and "princesses".

  • Sozin, the Fire Lord who started the Fire Nation's war against the other nations.
  • Azulon, the son of Sozin.
  • Ozai, the son of Azulon. He is the Fire Lord during most of the original animated TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender.
  • Zuko, the son of Ozai, becomes Fire Lord after his father is defeated by Avatar Aang.
  • Izumi, the daughter of Zuko. She appears in the fourth season of the sequel series The Legend of Korra.

Galactic Empire

Genovia

Genovia is featured in the book The Princess Diaries and its film adaptations.

  • King Rupert Renaldi
  • Queen Clarisse Renaldi
  • Mia Thermopolis

Gondor

Hyrule

The kingdom of Hyrule is featured in The Legend of Zelda video game franchise.

Kingdom of Ix

The Kingdom of Ix is featured in the Oz novel series and its film adaptation The Magic Cloak of Oz.

  • Queen Zixi
  • King Chillywalla of Boxwood

Jalpur

Karlsberg
  • King Ferdinand of the German kingdom of Karlsberg, the grandfather of Prince Karl Franz, in the operetta The Student Prince.

Khemed

Kingdom of Khura'in

The kingdom of Khura'in is featured in the video game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Spirit of Justice.

  • Amara Sigatar Khura'in, was Queen until an attempted assassination was carried out on her by her sister, Ga'ran. Although she survived the assassination attempt, it was officially announced that she had died, resulting in Ga'ran taking her place as the Queen of Khura'in. In reality her life was being used to benefit her sister's malicious needs, including acting as leverage over her children and husband's lives for the next 20 plus years. She survives yet another attempt on her life by Ga'ran during the game's events.
  • Ga'ran Sigatar Khura'in, became the Queen after her sister was supposedly "assassinated". She is best known for having formed the culture of Khura'in into one that displays a powerful prejudice towards defense attorneys, and ultimately leading an attorney genocide involving mass slaughter and imprisonment of Khura'in's lawyers. She is ultimately found to have never had an actual claim to the throne, and is found to be guilty of a multitude of charges.
  • Rayfa Padma Khura'in, the daughter of Queen Amara and Dhurke Sahdmadhi, niece and adoptive daughter of Queen Ga'ran, and crown princess of Khura'in. As the next in line to the throne, she is to become the reigning Queen following the dethroning and subsequent arrest of her Ga'ran. However, due to her inability to as of yet channel spirits, which is a requirement for a monarch in Khura'in, a regent is temporarily appointed.
  • Nahyuta Sahdmadhi, the son of Queen Amara and Dhurke Sahdmadhi, and Queen Ga'ran's nephew. After Princess Rayfa ascends to the throne, he becomes a regent due to his sister's as of yet incapability to become the ruling monarch.

Kippernium

The fictional English kingdom of Kippernium is featured in the children's book series Jane and the Dragon and its animated television adaptation.

  • King Rathbonne "Caradoc" Cedric Bartok Kippernook
    • Caradoc is the good-humored and childish ruler of the small kingdom of Kippernium. He is the younger brother of the previous monarch, the real "King Caradoc", whom he keeps the name so his people can remember him after his death before crowning. His children, Prince Cuthbert Hakan (the heir apparent) and Princess Lavinia Pernilla Kippernook, seem to be more mature than he is. However, it is common to hear insight and wisdom come from his lips when the need arises. After when Prince Cuthbert is rescued and brought back from a dragon by an adolescent girl named Jane Turnkey, Caradoc makes her a knight apprentice for her bravery.

Kivukiland
  • King Hekule is the ruler of the Southern African kingdom of Kivukiland who has been cursed by a gemstone to be possessed by the spirit of Kunji Balanadin, in the South African film sequel Mr. Bones 2: Back from the Past.
  • King Tsonga is the new ruler of Kivukiland who longs for a son to be the heir to the throne, in the first film Mr Bones.

Known Universe

Kukuanaland

Kukuanaland is featured in the novel King Solomon's Mines and its adaptations in other media.

  • King Twala was an African monarch of Kukuanaland who had to murder his brother the previous king and drive his brother's wife and son, Ignosi, out to the desert to die. He ruled over his people, the Kukuanas, with ruthless violence until he was overthrown by the rebels of Ignosi and had his head lopped off by Sir Henry Curtis in a duel.
  • King Ignosi (aka Umbopa) is the rightful monarch of Kukuanaland whose Allan Quatermain, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good gain support for him, as the rebellion breaks out, by taking the advantage of their foreknowledge of a lunar eclipse to claim that they would black out the moon as proof of his claim.

Kuntala

Kyrat

Lancre

Lancre is featured in the Discworld series of novels.

  • Champot was the King of Lancre about a thousand years before the events of Wyrd Sisters who built the traditional royal residence of Lancre Castle and killed by beheading at the hands of his nephew. His ghost (whose head is often separated from his body) mentors the recently-assassinated King Verence on the nature of ghosts.
  • My-God-He's-Heavy I is mentioned in Carpe Jugulum in relation to the Lancrastrian tradition of people being called exactly what the priest says at their Christening.
  • Verence I was the King of Lancre in Wyrd Sisters whereupon he was murdered by his cousin, Duke Felmet.
  • Duke Felmet was ruler of Lancre during the events of Wyrd Sisters during which time he mistreated both the land and his subjects.
  • Verence II has been the King of Lancre since the events of Wyrd Sisters. The former court fool, he was crowned King after the refusal of Tomjon (Verence I's supposed heir) to become King at the expense of his acting career, on the grounds that they were half-brothers; this was understood to mean that their father was Verence I but believed by Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg to mean the former fool. Verence II rules the kingdom seriously (having learned that being a fool was no laughing matter). He is married to Magrat Garlick and has a daughter, Princess Esmeralda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre.

Liberl

The Kingdom of Liberl is part of the fictional continent of Zemuria in the video game The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky.

  • King Edgar von Auslese III was the 25th monarch of the Kingdom of Liberl who is mentioned during the gaming events.
  • Queen Alicia von Auslese II becomes the 26th monarch of the Kingdom of Liberl after her father's death. She is the grandmother of Crown Princess Klaudia von Auslese.

Liechtenhaus
  • Prince Max is the ruler of the small principality of Liechtenhaus who might have to sell his royal palace to the American developers as a casino complex if he couldn't get an infusion of cash quickly, although he still has a daughter, Princess Sofia, and the dowry he would get from marrying her off to unappealing, in the Italian film Piccolo grande amore.

Loathing

Lutha

The Balkan kingdom of Lutha is featured in the novel The Mad King.

  • King Leopold was the former ruler of Lutha. He was killed by one of the henchmen of his uncle Prince Peter of Blentz.
  • Barney Custer becomes the new king of Lutha, with Princess Emma Von Der Tann as his wife.

Madripoor

The Principality of Madripoor is featured in the Marvel Comics universe.

  • Prince Baran was the previous ruler of Madripoor who has been murdered by General Coy.
  • Madame Hydra becomes a deposed ruler of Madripoor as HYDRA, the terrorist organization, takes over the entire nation.

Mahishmati

Mahishmati Kingdom is featured in the Baahubali franchise.

  • King Somadeva was the reigning Maharaja of Mahishmati Kingdom and the father of Bijjaladeva and Vikramadeva.
  • Bijjaladeva, the former prince of Mahishmati Kingdom, was meant to be the heir to the throne but has been replaced by his brother Vikramadeva whom he hated the most after having bad habits, like drinking. He even became more jealous of his nephew Amarendra who has been claimed to be the new king.
  • King Vikramadeva had been the ruler of Mahishmati Kingdom after replacing his older brother Bijjaladeva due to his bad habits.
  • Rajamatha Sivagami Devi, Bijjaladeva's wife, became a regent of Mahishmati Kingdom as she assumed the guardian role of the throne, raising both her nephew Amarendra and her son Bhallaladeva to be worthy heirs until it was decided that one of them would be the new King.
  • Amarendra Baahubali, son of Vikramadeva, has been a selected King of Mahishmati Kingdom, as chosen by his aunt Sivagami, with Princess Devasena of Kuntala as his queen.
  • Bhallaladeva, son of Bijjaladeva and Sivagami, became the King of Mahishmati Kingdom as he relieved his cousin and foster brother Amarendra, whom he has been envious of, of his official duties. He was later killed and defeated by his nephew Mahendra.
  • Mahendra Baahubali, son of Amarendra and Devasena, becomes a new King of Mahishmati Kingdom after defeating his evil uncle Bhallaladeva and slaying his adoptive cousin Bhadrudu.

Neighborhood of Make-Believe

The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is the fictional kingdom in the children's television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. It is inhabited by the hand puppet characters.

  • King Friday XIII is the imperious ruler of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the husband of Queen Sara Saturday, and the father of Prince Tuesday.

Maldonia
  • The King of the country of Maldonia, the father of Prince Naveen and the father-in-law of Tiana in the Disney animated film The Princess and the Frog.

Meridian

Meridian is featured in the animated series W.I.T.C.H.

  • Queen Weira and King Zayden were the previous rulers of Meridian who can only be seen in flashbacks. They were the parents of Prince Phobos and Princess Elyon.
  • Prince Phobos seeks to remain a ruler of Meridian, in spite of his sister Elyon being its rightful heiress, by defeating her and the Guardians of the Veil. He and his general, Lord Cedric, are the heartless tyrants who lust after Elyon's powers.
  • Elyon Escanor (aka Elyon Brown), the lost Princess of Meridian, is the rightful heir to the throne who has been raised as a normal girl by Alborn and Miriadel to be protected from her evil brother Phobos. She then assumes her rightful place as the Heart of Meridian, and later Queen of Meridian, after defeating Phobos and Lord Cedric alongside W.I.T.C.H.

Meropis

Meropis is featured in the Archie Comics series Sonic the Hedgehog.

  • Queen Angelica and King Puff
    • The rulers of the underwater city of Meropis who thought that Coral the Betta, a young priestess, was the one who caused the Shattered World Crisis but later saw her as the rightful priestess after defeating the Dark Gaia minions. Queen Angelica is more of a serious monarch and possesses a solemn dignity to match her position, while King Puff is rather less-dignified, short-tempered and immature and tends to inflate himself on instinct whenever he gets angry. However, both Angelica and Puff are not open-minded, seeing the explanation of Sonic the Hedgehog for the misfortunes afflicting their city as "stupid" or "ridiculous". Angelica and Puff are also the parents of Princess Undina who is a childhood friend of Coral.

Island of Misfit Toys

Mobius

Mobius is featured in the animated television series Sonic Underground.

  • Queen Aleena Hedgehog, the former ruler of Mobius and the mother of Sonic, Sonia and Manic Hedgehog. She was overthrown by the evil Dr. Robotnik who could seize control of Mobius, renaming it to "Robotropolis" under his rule.

Mushroom Kingdom

Naboo

Isle of Naboombu

Narnia

Narnia is featured in The Chronicles of Narnia series of novels, and its adaptations in other media.

Neptune City

Nihon-Ja

Noland
  • King Bud, whose real name is Timothy, is a young, orphaned boy who becomes a ruler of the Kingdom of Noland with his sister Fluff (real name Meg) as its princess in the Oz novel series.

Nome Kingdom

The Nome Kingdom is featured in the Oz novel series and its film adaptation Return to Oz. The ruler of the Nome Kingdom is known as the "Nome King".

  • Ruggedo of the Rocks (also referred to as Roquat the Red) is the villainous, stubborn Nome King who has been overthrown and loses his throne of the Nome Kingdom but still thinks of himself as a king.
  • Kaliko, the former chamberlain, becomes the second Nome King after dethroning Ruggedo. He promises to be a good king during his reign, unlike Ruggedo.

Nova

The kingdom of Nova is featured in the video game Long Live the Queen.

  • Queen Fidelia was the previous monarch of Nova who had recently died.
  • Princess Elodie has to be trained to become the new monarch of Nova after her mother's death. However, Elodie also becomes a victim of killing as well.

Oriana
  • Princess Oriana is the ruler of the Kingdom of Oriana, but also a damsel in distress, in the animated film Felix the Cat: The Movie.
  • The Duke of Zill, evil uncle of Princess Oriana, attempts to take over the Kingdom of Oriana with his robotic army.

Land of Oz

The Land of Oz is featured in the Oz novel series and its adaptations in other media.

  • King Pastoria, whose nickname was "The Lost King of Oz", was the previous ruler of the Land of Oz who has been removed mysteriously from his position when the Wizard unexpectedly came to Oz and took over the throne as its new dominant ruler.
  • Princess Ozma becomes the rightful ruler of the Land of Oz after when Glinda the Good Witch allows her to ascend the throne. She was given from her father Pastoria to the wicked witch Mombi who placed a curse on her, turning her into a boy called Tippetarius (or Tip for short), to prevent her from ascending her throne until Glinda later changed her back and Ozma herself is established back in her place as the official, young Queen of Oz.

Pride Lands

Leading the savanna of Pride Lands (Kiburi Ardhi in Swahili) is the reigning family of lions in Disney's The Lion King franchise.

  • Mohatu
    • The previous King of the Pride Lands during the events of The Lion King: Six New Adventures story The Brightest Star.
  • Ahadi
    • The son of Mohatu and the father of Mufasa and Scar; the other previous King of Pride Lands during the events of the story A Tale of Two Brothers.
  • Mufasa
    • He was the King of the Pride Lands in the first animated film The Lion King whereupon he was killed by his evil brother Scar with a stampede of wildebeest but has eventually become the heavenly spirit.
  • Scar
    • He was formerly the new King of the Pride Lands of which he mistreated both the entire savanna and his subjects until he was dethroned by his now-grown nephew Simba.
  • Simba
    • He becomes the rightful King of the Pride Lands after the death of his father Mufasa as he brings back peace and good nature to his subjects.
  • Kion
    • The second-born cub of Simba and Nala. He is the former leader of the Lion Guard and later crowned King of the Tree of Life with Queen Rani as his mate.

Prydain
  • Math was the High King of Prydain during most of the novel series The Chronicles of Prydain.
  • Gwydion, formerly a prince, briefly becomes High King of Prydain after Math's death in the final novel The High King.
  • Taran becomes High King of Prydain at the end of the novel The High King with Princess Eilonwy as his wife.

Rain Dukedom

The Rain Dukedom is featured in the Japanese anime series The World Is Still Beautiful.

  • Tohara has been a previous sovereign of the Rain Dukedom, the true mastermind, and the rain-summoning teacher.
  • Teteru Lemercier, Tohara's son-in-law, is the reigning duke of the Rain Dukedom and the father of Princesses Mira, Nia, Kara and Nike Lemercier.

Razkavia

The Germanic kingdom of Razkavia is featured in the novel The Tin Princess.

  • Prince Rudolf briefly becomes the new King of Razkavia after his father's death until he was killed during the coronation.
  • Adelaide Bevan, who had recently become a crown princess, becomes the reigning queen of Razkavia after her husband Rudolf got killed.

Robo-Hungarian Empire
  • Emperor Nikolai
    • In the Futurama episode "The Prisoner of Benda", Bender attempts to steal Emperor Nikolai's crown with the aid of a consciousness switching machine built by Professor Farnsworth and Amy in order to avoid being identified. After the robbery goes wrong and he convinces Nikolai that he is a robot in a human's body, Bender manages to switch consciousness with him (in a robot wash bucket's body), planning to live like an emperor whilst Nikolai can live a free 'peasant' robot's life. However, this goes wrong when both Nikolai's wife and head of security plan to murder the Emperor and blame the burglar.

Rohan

Rubovia
  • King Rufus XIV is the ruler of the Kingdom of Rubovia, father of Prince Rupert and husband of Queen Caroline, in the British children's series A Rubovian Legend.

Ruritania
  • King Rudolf V, the heir of Ruritania, has been drugged by his half-brother Duke Michael of Strelsau on the eve of his coronation and has been imprisoned in the castle of Zenda in the novel The Prisoner of Zenda.
  • Queen Flavia, formerly the princess, becomes a sovereign of Ruritania alone after when King Rudolf was buried in the novel sequel Rupert of Hentzau.

Sadida

The Sadida Kingdom is featured in the French animated television series Wakfu.

  • King Oakheart Sheran Sharm is a jolly ruler of the Sadida Kingdom who, despite his "king" status, is not familiar with formalities. When the Tree of Life is sick, Oakheart temporarily leaves his post to his son Armand. It is later revealed that King Oakheart lays gravely ill and expects to pass away soon.
  • Prince Armand Sheran Sharm is an arrogant young man who acts like a ruler of the Sadida Kingdom when his father is away. He later gets annoyed constantly by how his sister Amalia does not care about politics, due to the King's illness.
  • Princess Amalia Sheran Sharm has taken her mother's position as Queen of the Sadida Kingdom in the Special Episodes.

Sarasaland

Sarasaland is featured in the video game Super Mario Land.

  • Princess Daisy is the sovereign of the kingdom of Sarasaland in the Mario video game franchise.

Island of Sodor

The Island of Sodor is featured in the book series The Railway Series and its adaptations in other media.

Kingdom existed from 1099 to 1263.

  • Sigmund, elected first king who reigned from 1099 to 1116.
  • The last king was Andreas, who died in the battle of Largs in 1263, along with his heir apparent, Peter.

Afterwards, the island became a Regency, and the last Regent, Sir Arnold de Normanby, was made Earl of Sodor by King Henry IV. The surname was later altered to Norramby. In 1753, the Earldom was extinguished by attainder; but in 1873, after popular petition, Queen Victoria graciously restored the title to the rightful pretender, John Arnold Norramby. The Earls were active on the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster, and, as there is no Duke of Lancaster, the Earls were popularly, albeit nominally, called Dukes of Sodor. They were:

  • John Arnold Norramby, 1st Duke of Sodor, reigned 1873 to 1894.
  • Henry John Norramby, 2nd Duke of Sodor, reigned 1894 to 1915.
  • Charles Henry Norramby, 3rd Duke of Sodor, reigned 1915 to 1941, and served in the First World War (also known as the Great War).
  • Robert Charles Norramby, 4th Duke of Sodor, reigned 1941 to 1943, killed in action in the Second World War.
  • Richard Robert Norramby, 5th Duke of Sodor, reigned since 1943, succeeded in his third year.

Both the 4th and 5th Dukes are mentioned in Duke the Lost Engine, while the 5th comes into Very Old Engines, where he opens the loop line of the Skarloey Railway.[5]

Soleanna

Soleanna (also known as the City of Water) is the sovereign island country in the video game Sonic the Hedgehog (2006). It is inspired by Venice, Italy.

  • The Duke of Soleanna. He happened to be a chief scientist and can only be seen during the flashback and during Shadow and Silver's time travel. After the accident of a research program, the Solaris Project, the Duke used a Chaos Emerald to seal Iblis, the raw power of the evil sun god Solaris, within the soul of his daughter Elise right before he died.
  • Princess Elise III, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Soleanna. She becomes a new ruler after her father's death from her childhood. However, Elise is also a damsel in distress as she gets mostly abducted by Doctor Eggman, who attempts to take Iblis out of her entire body, but gets rescued by Sonic the Hedgehog. (see Princess and dragon)

Sto Lat and Sto Helit

Sto Lat and Sto Helit are featured in the Discworld series of novels.

  • Olerve the Bastard, the King of Sto Lat assassinated on the orders of the Duke of Sto Helit in Mort.
  • Queen Kelirehenna I, originally Princess Keli, the daughter of Olerve the Bastard. In Mort, her assassination on the orders of the Duke of Sto Helit was meant to result in his ascension to the throne, the unification of Sto Lat and Sto Helit, the federation of the nations of the Sto Plains and a century of peace. However, after being saved by Mort, Death's human apprentice, she manages to ascend to throne after Death arranged for the timeline to be permanently altered.
  • Mortimer Sto Helit, former apprentice to Death, is invested as the Duke of Sto Helit by Queen Kelirehenna as a reward for saving her life, after the previous Duke died after his lifetimer was destroyed in a fight between Mort and Death. Mort marries Death's adoptive daughter Ysabell and adopts the family motto Non Temitis Messor (Don't Fear The Reaper). Both he and Ysabell die in a carriage crash in Soul Music after refusing Death's offer of immortality.
  • Susan Sto Helit has technically been the Duchess of Sto Helit since the death of her parents Mortimer and Ysabell Sto Helit in Soul Music but instead pursues a teaching career in Hogfather and Thief of Time and wishes to be referred to as 'Miss Susan'. She wishes simply to be normal despite having inherited many supernatural traits from her adoptive grandfather Death, such as the ability to walk through solid matter.

Sun Kingdom

The Sun Kingdom is featured in the Japanese anime series The World Is Still Beautiful.

  • Sheila was a selected Queen of the Sun Kingdom as the consort of the former king, although she was a commoner. She lived an isolated life in the castle with her son Livius, due to her low social status, until she passed away.
  • Livius Orvinus Ifrikia (Livius I) is the young king of the Sun Kingdom who begins his campaign to conquer the world after his mother's death, even though he is actually still a child.

Syldavia
  • Muskar XII is the king of the fictional Balkan country of Syldavia in the eight volume of the Tintin comics. Another Syldavian kings mentioned in the same volume are, among others, Muskar I, the fictional first king, and Ottokar IV, whose sceptre serves as the plot basis of it.

Taronia
  • King Anatol XII is the ruler of the Ruritanian kingdom of Taronia in the film Thirty-Day Princess.

Themyscira

Tryphemia
  • King Pausole is the mythic monarch of the kingdom of Tryphemia in the novel The Adventures of King Pausole and its opérette adaptation.

The Underground
  • King Asgore Dreemurr of the Underground, the king of all monsters, ex-Husband of Toriel and the father of the primary antagonist, Prince Asriel Dreemurr (aka Flowey), in the video game Undertale. He is a benevolent, goat-like monster with a golden beard and white fur and speaks with a southern accent.

The Underworld
  • An unnamed and also benevolent King of the Underworld is the father of Princess Moanna (aka Ofelia), the child protagonist in the Spanish film Pan's Labyrinth.

Unikingdom
  • Princess Unikitty is the ruler of the Unikingdom who deals with the threats of the evil Master Frown and goes on the misadventures with her brother Prince Puppycorn, Dr. Fox the scientist, Hawkodile the bodyguard, and Richard the royal advisor in the animated television series Unikitty!

Videoland

Videoland is featured in the animated television series Captain N: The Game Master.

  • King Charles Oberonn is the original sovereign of Videoland who has been banished to the Mirror World by the evil Mother Brain.
  • Princess Lana becomes a regent of Videoland when her father is banished. She has been trained to defend herself from a young age and is able to keep up with the other members of the N-Team led by Kevin Keene throughout their adventures.

Vulgaria

Wakanda
  • T'Chaka was the King of Wakanda in the Marvel Comics universe.
  • T'Challa, son of King T'Chaka and former prince, becomes the new King of Wakanda who also becomes the Black Panther.

Westeros

Westeros is a fictional continent within the world of the novel series A Song of Ice and Fire and its television adaptation Game of Thrones. The sovereign who rules Westeros is given the title "King of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm."

Targaryen Dynasty

  • Aegon I Targaryen (Aegon the Conqueror)
    • Conquered Six of the Seven independent Kingdoms of Westeros.
  • Aenys I Targaryen
    • Firstborn son of King Aegon I, heir to the Iron Throne.
  • Maegor I Targaryen (Maegor the Cruel)
    • Second-born son of King Aegon I, usurped the Iron Throne from his nephew and legal heir, Prince Aegon. (son of Aenys I)
  • Jaehaerys I Targaryen (Jaehaerys the Conciliator)
    • Third-born son of King Aenys I, legally usurped the Iron Throne from his uncle, King Maegor I.
  • Viserys I Targaryen (The Young King)
    • Grandson of King Jaehaerys I.
  • Aegon II Targaryen
    • Firstborn son of King Viserys I. Usurped the Iron Throne from the legal heir and his sister, Princess Rhaenyra, firstborn daughter of King Viserys I.
  • Aegon III Targaryen
    • Grandson of King Jaehaerys I.
  • Daeron I Targaryen
    • Firstborn son of King Aegon III.
  • Baelor I Targaryen (Baelor the Blessed)
    • Second-born son of King Aegon III, brother to King Daeron I.
  • Viserys II Targaryen
    • Grandson of King Viserys I, brother to King Aegon III, uncle to King Baelor I.
  • Aegon IV Targaryen
    • Firstborn son of King Viserys II.
  • Daeron II Targaryen
    • Firstborn son of King Aegon IV.
  • Aerys I Targaryen
  • Maekar I Targaryen
  • Aegon V Targaryen
  • Jaehaerys II Targaryen
  • Aerys II Targaryen
  • Viserys III Targaryen (the Beggar King), pretender
    • Second-born son of King Aerys II Targaryen, and brother to Prince Rhaegar Targaryen.
  • Daenerys I Targaryen, pretender
    • Younger sister of Rhaegar and Viserys, becomes heiress of the Iron Throne after her husband Khal Drogo murders Viserys.
  • Aegon VI Targaryen (Young Griff), pretender
    • Alleged son of Prince Rhaegar Targaryen and Elia Martell (it was supposed that both mother and son had been murdered by Gregor Clegane).

Baratheon Dynasty

  • Robert I Baratheon
    • Crowned King after his first cousin once removed, King Aerys II Targaryen, was killed during Robert's Rebellion
  • Joffrey I Baratheon
    • Known to the Seven Kingdoms as the eldest son of King Robert I. Actually a bastard born of incest between Robert's wife, Cersei Lannister, and her brother Jaime Lannister.
  • Tommen I Baratheon
    • Younger brother to King Joffrey I, also a bastard born of his mother and uncle's incestuous relationship.

The current monarch of the Seven Kingdoms is King Tommen I Baratheon.

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  • Cersei I of the House Lannister
    • Robert Baratheon's widow, and mother of Joffrey and Tommen, self-proclaimed Queen after her younger son's suicide.
  • Brandon I of the House Stark
    • Elected King by the assembled Lords Paramount of the Seven Kingdoms after the death of both Queens Cersei and Daenerys.

Witchland

Wonderland

Woodland Realm

Yangdon

Yangdon is featured in the Philippine television series, Princess and I.

  • Maja Raja Wangchuk was the previous King of the kingdom of Yangdon, seen in the first episode "A Princess is Born".
  • Anand Wangchuk, the son of the late Maja Raja, is the current King of Yangdon and the biological father of the series' protagonist, Mikay Maghirang.

Zambezi
  • King Mulambon is the African monarch whose kingdom of Zambezi becomes a trade partner with the United Kingdom, in the film King Ralph. He and King Ralph share their concerns about the role of their leadership as well as the economic interests of their nations.

Zamunda
  • Jaffe Joffer was the King of an African nation of Zamunda in the film Coming to America.
  • Akeem Joffer becomes the new King of Zamunda, following Jaffe's death, in the film sequel Coming 2 America.
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References
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