Almost 1000 years of continuous British(English) monarchy!
And to think, in 50 years there will likely be another King William too.
Assuming it is sultan Abdul III instead.
Or, another way to picture time: less than ten Bob Hopes ago.
Continuous if you overlook such events as Bosworth Field, the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution, and the ‘45.
“England, since the conquest, hath known some few good monarchs, but groaned beneath a much larger number of bad ones, yet no man in his senses can say that their claim under William the Conqueror is a very honorable one.
A French bastard landing with an armed banditti, and establishing himself king of England against the consent of the natives, is in plain terms a very paltry rascally original. It certainly hath no divinity in it.”
Thomas Paine