British monarchy

As leaders of the people of the United Kingdom, the British monarchy have occasionally found themselves involved in the Transformers' conflict on Earth.

Outside of Transformer affairs, the King of the United Kingdom or the Queen of the United Kingdom is often held in high regard by the people of the United States of America, interestingly enough.

Fiction

Shattered Glass

In the early 21st century of a strange and backward universe, the British desired to invade the United States of America, though the Queen argued against bombing the very land she wished to conquer. Eye in the Sky

Be the Hero books

Time-Quake

Upon accidentally traveling from the 18th century to the 22nd century, John Hawkins mistook Bulkhead for being some mechanical trick of King George III, enemy of the early United States. Time-Quake

Wings Universe

When Clench's Decepticon Syndicate attempted to kidnap and ransom the Queen of England, UK citizen Pyro Ignatius Spark gathered his own team of Second Generation Autobots to rescue Her Majesty. Pyro was subsequently knighted by the Queen for this brave act. Clench's profile

Rescue Bots cartoon

In the 17th century, King Charles I was so impressed at Horace Burns's heroic service, that he made Griffin Rock a Protectorate of the Crown and named him King Horace the First. Burns turned it down in favor of installing some sort of weird democracy. King Burns

The Last Knight film

Both Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria were members of the Order of the Witwiccans, a secret society who knew of the presence of Transformers on Earth and worked to keep their secret. Portraits of both queens were included in Edmund Burton's collection of Witwiccan/Cybertronian artifacts.

Upon meeting the new Prime Minister, Sir Edmund Burton cited his military service in Her Majesty's Royal Navy. The Last Knight

Notes

• For the first 38 years of the Transformers brand, Elizabeth II was the Queen of the United Kingdom. She is likely the unnamed Wings Universe queen in the 2000s and The Last Knight queen in the 2020s while it is less clear if this is true of Shattered Glass.
  • Shortly before her passing in 2022, one of the last things she had signed off on were the Royal Mail Transformers stamps.
• The term "Queen of England" is often used erroneously by foreigners in modern times. As Wikipedia explains, "of England" stopped being the official parlance when England and Scotland formally united in 1707. Similarly, King Arthur and Cnut the Great are not listed above on this page because they predate the founding of the Kingdom of England in the year 927.
• The thinking by James Roberts in the 2005-2018 IDW comics is that by Nominus Prime's time, the Primes had become like the Queen: a constitutional leader but with the government having more of the power.^[1]

References

External links

• Monarchy of the United Kingdom at Wikipedia