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A statue of Margaret of Anjou, queen consort of England (r. 1445-1471). Margaret was married to Henry VI of England (r. 1422-1461 and 1470-71). Statue by Ferdinand Taluet, 1877, in Luxembourg Garden, Paris.

A statue of Aethelstan, King of England (r. 927-939), in Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, northern England, sculpted by William Collins, 1781.

A statue of Edward I of England (r. 1272-1307), also known as 'Longshanks', built by Christopher Kelly, 2007. It is located in Burgh by Sands, Cumbria, northwest England, where Edward died in 1307 while marching north...

A statue of Matilda of Flanders, queen consort of England and wife of William the Conqueror (r. 1066-1087), built by French Artist Carle Elshoecht, 1850, in Luxembourg Garden, Paris.

The statue shows Edith Swanneck finding the body of the English king Harold Godwinson (r. Jan-Oct 1066) on the field of the Battle of Hastings in 1066. It was built by Charles Augustus William Wilke, 1875...

A statue of Edward the Confessor, King of England (r. 1042-1066) outside St Edward's Hall at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. It was installed by Froc-Robert & Sons, 1883, a religious statue manufacturer.

A Statue of Saint Oswald, King of Northumbria (r. 634-642) on the front of the Church of San Stae, in Venice, Italy, by Italian artist Giuseppe Torretto (1661-1743).

Alfred the Great taking refuge in a cottage and burning the cakes (as told in the tale of Alfred and the Cakes), illustration from page 50 of A Chronicle of England, B.C. 55-A.D. 1485 by James William Edmund Doyle, 1864.

A statue of Richard III, King of England (r. 1483-1485), designed by James Butler, 1980. The statue is located in Leicester, England, near where Richard died in the Battle of Bosworth Field.

A statue of Henry VII, King of England (r. 1485-1509), built by Harriet Addyman, 2017. The statue sits outside Pembroke Castle, south Wales, where Henry was born in 1457.