I just caught the end of BBC Radio 4’s Today show this morning. They had a panel of historians discussing the question : Who was Britain’s greatest Monarch?

It looks like they’re doing another listeners’ poll, which might be rather dangerous given the current climate of fakery around polls of this kind.

So that Royal Anedotes can get its retaliation in first, let’s have a vote here. Who is Britain’s greatest Monarch and why do you think so?

The three experts in the studio suggested, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and Queen Victoria. Like all experts they couldn’t even agree on that.