Parliament is bicameral and is located in London.
The House of Commons has 659 members, who are elected to five-year terms by popular vote. This body is the more powerful. The House of Lords has about 1,200 members. It is made up of hereditary peers, 26 archbishops and bishops, about 20 law lords, and life peers of honorary rank. It has little power.
Kings and Queens
1603-1625 James I (James VI of Scotland)
1625-1649 Charles I
1649-1660 Commonwealth
1660-1685 Charles II
1685-1688 James II
1688-1702 William III and Mary II
1702-1714 Anne
1714-1727 George I
1727-1760 George II
1760-1820 George III
1811-1820 Regency
1820-1830 George IV
1830-1837 William IV
1837-1901 Victoria
1901-1910 Edward VII
1910-1936 George V
1936-1936 Edward VIII
1936-1952 George VI
1952 now Elizabeth II
Prime Ministers
1702-1710 Sidney Godolphin
1710-1714 Robert Harley
1714-1714 Charles Talbot
1714-1715 Charles Montagu
1715-1715 Charles Howard
1715-1717 Robert Walpole
1717-1718 James Stanhope
1718-1721 Charles Spencer
1721-1742 Robert Walpole
1742-1743 Spencer Compton
1743-1754 Henry Pelham
1754-1756 Thomas Pelham-Holles
1756-1757 William Cavendish
1757-1762 Thomas Pelham-Holles
1762-1763 John Stuart
1763-1765 George Grenville
1765-1766 Charles Watson-Wentworth
1766-1768 William Pitt ‘The Elder’
1768-1770 Augustus Henry Fitzroy
1770-1782 Frederick North
1782-1782 Charles Watson-Wentworth
1782-1783 William Petty
1783-1783 William Cavendish Bentinck
1783-1801 William Pitt ‘The Younger’
1801-1804 Henry Addington
1804-1806 William Pitt ‘The Younger’
1806-1807 William Wyndham Grenville
1807-1809 William Cavendish Bentinck
1809-1812 Spencer Perceval
1812-1827 Robert Banks Jenkinson
1827-1827 George Canning
1827-1828 Frederick John Robinson
1820-1830 Arthur Wellesley
1830-1834 Charles Gray
1834-1834 William Lamb
1834-1835 Robert Peel
1835-1841 William Lamb
1841-1846 Robert Peel
1846-1852 John Russell
1852-1852 Edward Smith Stanley
1852-1855 George Hamilton Gordon
1855-1858 Henry John Temple
1858-1859 Edward Smith Stanley
1859-1865 Henry John Temple
1865-1866 John Russell
1866-1868 Edward Smith Stanley
1868-1868 Benjamin Disraeli
1868-1874 William Ewart Gladstone
1874-1880 Benjamin Disraeli
1880-1885 William Ewart Gladstone
1885-1886 Robert A. T. Gascoyne-Cecil
1886-1886 William Ewart Gladstone
1886-1892 Robert A. T. Gascoyne-Cecil
1892-1894 William Ewart Gladstone
1894-1895 Archibald Philip Primrose
1895-1902 Robert A. T. Gascoyne-Cecil
1902-1905 Arthur James Balfour
1905-1908 Henry Campbell Bannerman
1908-1916 Herbert Henry Asquith
1916-1922 David Lloyd George
1922-1923 Andrew Bonar Law
1923-1924 Stanley Baldwin
1924-1924 James Ramsay MacDonald
1924-1929 Stamley Baldwin
1929-1935 James Ramsay MacDonald
1935-1937 Stanley Baldwin
1937-1940 Neville Chamberlain
1940-1945 Winston Churchill
1945-1951 Clement Atlee
1951-1955 Winston Churchill
1955-1957 Anthony Eden
1957-1963 Harold MacMillan
1963-1964 Alec Douglas-Home
1964-1970 Harold Wilson
1970-1974 Edward Heath
1974-1976 Harold Wilson
1976-1979 James Callaghan
1979-1990 Margaret Thatcher
1990-1997 John Major
1997-2008 Tony Blair
2008-2010 Gordon Brown
2010 now David Cameron
