Color Breakdown by Reign

You may notices we use a few different color charts throughout our blog. The different colors mark different reigns. 

We rotate through the colors, pink, green, and blue. The reigns across Europe don't exactly line up. But we wanted to distinguish between each reign & the older and new monarchs. 

We started with pink for all monarchs as of Nov 2012. We will then switch to green, blue, then pink again for each subsequent monarch. And will do the same for monarchs that came before (on the rare event we record something that far back). 

Belgium

Blue	Pink	Green
Baudouin (1951 – 1993)	Albert II (1993-2013)	Philippe (Current)

Denmark

Blue	Pink	Green
Frederick IX (1947-1972)	Margrethe II (1972-2024)	Frederik X (as of Jan 14th)

Liechtenstein

Blue	Pink	Green
Hans Adams II (Pre-Regency) (1989-2004)	Alois (Regent) (Current)	-

Luxembourg

Blue	Pink	Green
Jean (1964-2000)	Henri (Current)	-

Monaco

Blue	Pink	Green
Rainier (1949 – 2005)	Albert II (Current)	-

Netherlands

Blue	Pink	Green
Juliana (1948-1980)	Beatrix (1980-2013)	Willem-Alexander (Current)

Norway

Blue	Pink	Green
-	-	Haakon VIII (1905-1957)
Olav V (1957-1991)	Harald V (Current)	-

Spain

Blue	Pink	Green
Dictatorship	Juan Carlos (1975-2014)	Felipe VI (Current)

Sweden

Blue	Pink	Green
Gustaf VI Adolf (1950-1973)	Carl XVI Gustaf (Current)	-

United Kingdom

Blue	Pink	Green
Edward VII (1901-1910)	George V (1910-1936)	Edward VIII (1936)
George VI (1936-1952)	Elizabeth II (1952-2023)	Charles  III (Current)

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