List of British monarchs by longevity

This is a list of British monarchs by longevity since the Union of the Crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1603.

To maintain consistency within the table, the dates of birth and death for each monarch are given in New Style.

Two measures of the longevity are given—this is to allow for the differing number of leap days occurring within the life of each monarch. The first column is the number of days between date of birth and date of death, allowing for leap days; the second column breaks this number down into years, and days, with the years being the number of whole years the monarch lived, and then days after his or her last birthday.

Rank	Monarch	Date of birth	Date of death	Longevity
				days	years/days
1	Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom	21 April 1926	Living	31,363	&1000000000000008500000085 years, &10000000000000317000000317 days
2	Victoria of the United Kingdom	24 May 1819	22 January 1901	29,828	&1000000000000008100000081 years, &10000000000000243000000243 days
3	George III of the United Kingdom	4 June 1738	29 January 1820	29,823	&1000000000000008100000081 years, &10000000000000239000000239 days
4	Edward VIII of the United Kingdom	23 June 1894	28 May 1972	28,463	&1000000000000007700000077 years, &10000000000000340000000340 days
5	George II of Great Britain	30 October 1683	25 October 1760	28,108	&1000000000000007600000076 years, &10000000000000350000000350 days
6	William IV of the United Kingdom	21 August 1765	20 June 1837	26,235	&1000000000000007100000071 years, &10000000000000303000000303 days
7	George V of the United Kingdom	3 June 1865	20 January 1936	25,797	&1000000000000007000000070 years, &10000000000000231000000231 days
8	Edward VII of the United Kingdom	9 November 1841	6 May 1910	25,014	&1000000000000006800000068 years, &10000000000000178000000178 days
9	James II of England	24 October 1633	16 September 1701	24,798	&1000000000000006700000067 years, &10000000000000327000000327 days
10	George IV of the United Kingdom	12 August 1762	26 June 1830	24,789	&1000000000000006700000067 years, &10000000000000318000000318 days
11	George I of Great Britain	7 June 1660	22 June 1727	24,485	&1000000000000006700000067 years, &1000000000000001500000015 days
12	James VI of Scotland	19 June 1566	6 April 1625	21,476	&1000000000000005800000058 years, &10000000000000291000000291 days
13	George VI of the United Kingdom	14 December 1895	6 February 1952	20,507	&1000000000000005600000056 years, &1000000000000005400000054 days
14	Charles II of England	8 June 1630	16 February 1685	19,977	&1000000000000005400000054 years, &10000000000000253000000253 days
15	William III of England	14 November 1650	19 March 1702	18,752	&1000000000000005100000051 years, &10000000000000125000000125 days
16	Anne of Great Britain	16 February 1665	12 August 1714	18,073	&1000000000000004900000049 years, &10000000000000177000000177 days
17	Charles I of England	29 November 1600	9 February 1649	17,604	&1000000000000004800000048 years, &1000000000000007200000072 days
18	Mary II of England	10 May 1662	7 January 1695	11,930	&1000000000000003200000032 years, &10000000000000242000000242 days

*As of 3 March 2012.

Should HRH The Prince of Wales accede to the throne before 28 November 2015, he would immediately be ranked 12th.

The current monarch

Elizabeth II surpassed Victoria as oldest reigning monarch on 21 December 2007, having surpassed George III five days earlier. She celebrated her Diamond Jubilee on 6 February 2012. Should she be reigning on

• 10 September 2015, she would surpass Queen Victoria as the longest-reigning British monarch. At that point she would be 32,649 days (&1000000000000008900000089 years, &10000000000000142000000142 days) old.
• 6 February 2022, she would celebrate her Platinum Jubilee, marking 70 years on the throne. At that point she would be 32,649 days (&1000000000000009500000095 years, &10000000000000291000000291 days) old.
• 26 May 2024, she would surpass Louis XIV of France as the longest-reigning monarch in European history. At that point she would be 35,830 days (&1000000000000009800000098 years, &1000000000000003500000035 days) old.

See also

• List of monarchs of the British Isles by cause of death
• List of longest-reigning British monarchs
• List of UK monarchy records