| HARALDHARDRADA | Norwegian king who made a failed claim on the English throne in 1066 (6,8) |
| BATTLE | Small town in East Sussex named after an event taking William I to the English throne in 1066 (6) |
| TUDOR | Dynasty on the English throne 1485-1603 (5) |
| MIDAS | Note the German king who made a disastrous wish |
| GORDIUS | Ancient king who made a knot (7) |
| STEPHENOFBLOIS | William I's grandson who acceded to the English throne in 1135 (7,2,5) |
| RUFUS | William, byname of King William II who acceded to the English throne in 1087 (5) |
| WARSOFTHEROSES | Term for the dynastic conflict between the houses of Lancaster and York for the English throne 1455-1485 (4,2,3,5) |
| WILLIAMOFORANGE | Monarch who acceded to the English throne in 1689 with his wife Mary II (7,2,6) |
| DIEUETMONDROIT | French claim on the governance of England? (4,2,3,5) |
| WILLIAMANDMARY | Monarchs who took over the British throne in 1689 (7,3,4) |
| LATETOTHEPARTY | Like someone who starts watching "Game of Thrones" in 2022 |
| WARBECK | Perkin ---, 15th Century pretender to the English throne who claimed to be one of the Princes in the Tower (7) |
| THEODORIC | Ostrogoth king who made himself king of Italy in 493, with his capital in Ravenna (9) |
| BREDA | In his Declaration of ___ (4 April 1660), Charles II made certain promises in return for his restoration to the English throne (5) |
| PERKIN | Pretender to the English throne, who claimed to be Richard, Duke of York, supposed to have been murdered in the Tower (6,7) |
| LAMBERT | ___ Simnel, imposter to the English throne who claimed to be the Earl of Warwick (7) |
| OLAFI | Norwegian king who led a campaign to convert the Vikings to Christianity |
| LIEN | Claim on the property of another as security for the payment of a just debt |
| PLANTAGENET | Royal house that held the English throne from 1154 until Richard III was killed in battle in 1485 (11) |
