Crisis and Absolutism in Europe

I was Catholic, so they really didn't want me.  I did little, but at least I wasn't Cromwell.

Dad tended to lose his head over things.  My French vacation? Well, nice to be back in England.

They called me "Sun King." I ruled...well...forever.  Protestants?  Yukk!

My husband became king.  We signed the English Bill of Rights.  I signed first, of course.

Dad was Henry VIII.  I watched Shakespeare plays and beat the Armada.

I wrote the Edict of Nantes and let Protestants worship; Trouble with nobles? I paid them off.

OK, I lost to England, but we tortured non-Catholics and established a trade route - not bad.

We called our land Prussia; you call it Germany.  I was quite a fighter.

Leviathan?  No, it's only rights.  Natural rights, that is.

Glorious Rebellion?  I've seen better.My successors had a college named after them.

I beat Charles and became Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland

Some were named "great." I really was great - 6'8".  They loved me in Russia.