| WILLIAMOFORANGE | Monarch who acceded to the English throne in 1689 with his wife Mary II (7,2,6) |
| RUFUS | William, byname of King William II who acceded to the English throne in 1087 (5) |
| WILLIAMIII | King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1689-1702, who ruled jointly with his wife Mary II (7,3) |
| STEPHENOFBLOIS | William I's grandson who acceded to the English throne in 1135 (7,2,5) |
| ORANGE | William of ___ , byname of King William III, who acceded to the throne in 1689 jointly with Queen Mary II (6) |
| DISRAELI | Novelist and twice prime minister who resided at Hughenden with his wife Mary Anne; a favourite of Queen Victoria, he is remembered on Primrose Day (8) |
| WILLIAM | King who ruled jointly with his wife Mary (7) |
| WILLIAMANDMARY | Monarchs who took over the British throne in 1689 (7,3,4) |
| CANUTE | ____ The Great, Danish king of England who acceded to the throne in 1016 AD (6) |
| ACTOFSETTLEMENT | Piece of legislation from 1701 prompted by the failure of King William III, Queen Mary II and Queen Anne to produce any surviving children |
| BATTLE | Small town in East Sussex named after an event taking William I to the English throne in 1066 (6) |
| TREETOPS | Kenyan hotel in which Elizabeth II was staying when she acceded to the throne in 1952 (8) |
| BREDA | In his Declaration of ___ (4 April 1660), Charles II made certain promises in return for his restoration to the English throne (5) |
| WARBECK | Perkin ---, 15th Century pretender to the English throne who claimed to be one of the Princes in the Tower (7) |
| PERKIN | Pretender to the English throne, who claimed to be Richard, Duke of York, supposed to have been murdered in the Tower (6,7) |
| HARALDHARDRADA | Norwegian king who made a failed claim on the English throne in 1066 (6,8) |
| LAMBERT | ___ Simnel, imposter to the English throne who claimed to be the Earl of Warwick (7) |
| NONJUROR | Any of a group of clergy in England and Scotland who declined to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary in 1689 |
| SIMNEL | Lambert, pretender to the English throne crowned in Dublin as Edward VI (6) |
| RUNNYMEDE | A meadow on the bank of the Thames near Windsor, where King John acceded to Magna Carta in 1215 (9) |
