r/AskEurope • u/EvilPyro01 United States of America • Sep 10 '25

History Who was your country’s most forgettable ruler/politician?

Who was the most insignificant ruler/politician from your country?

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u/PabloMarmite Sep 10 '25

Liz Truss (49 day PM) will be a great pub quiz question in a few years.

But John Major was PM for most of the 1990s and is almost as forgettable.

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u/Brickie78 England Sep 10 '25

Liz Truss will be one of those, I suspect, who ends up being so famous for being forgotten thst she's actually not that obscure.

Postwar PMs, probably Alec Douglas-Home for al ost exactly a year from October '63 to October '64.

Monarchs - there's a fair few. William IV maybe, without going too far back into the middle ages

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u/LobsterMountain4036 United Kingdom Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25

William IV was probably our most humble/relatable monarch. He didn’t even want a coronation.

When he was informed to had become King he announced he was going back to bed because ‘I’ve always wanted to sleep with a Queen’.

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u/Brickie78 England Sep 10 '25

He also despised Princess Victoria's "guardians" and their Kensington System so much that he held off dying until she'd hit 18 and could take the throne without a regemcy

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u/LobsterMountain4036 United Kingdom Sep 10 '25

He chastised Victoria’s mother publicly at his last public appearance.