# UK monarch naming/numbering Q

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 21, 2010, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-monarch-naming-numbering-q/561425 "2010-11-21T11:44:09Z")\
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Before World war I. First Sea Lord Winston Churchill wanted to name a new battleship after William Pitt. King George V shot that down, saying he had served in the navy and he knew what unflattering nickname sailors would give to a ship named “Pitt”. Churchill also asked for a ship named after Oliver Cromwell, arguing he was the founder of the modern Navy. KGV shot that one down too, don’t name anything after a regicide.

Of course when yo notice how inept the Hanover George’s were (III loses America and goes nuts, IV was a lecherous slime), you wonder how the royal family could keep assigning that name.

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