Chapter King's Chair to Kings of K by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith – this last title was given to Henry VIII. in the thirty-fifth year of his reign; Mary, Of England, France, and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, and Supreme Head of the Anglican and Hibernian Church; Charles I., Of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, etc.; Commonwealth, The Keepers of the Liberties of England, by the authority of Parliament, and Cromwell was styled His Highness; Charles II. and James II. as Charles I.; William and Mary, Of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King and Queen, Defenders of the Faith, etc.; Anne, Of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, etc.; George III., in 1801, abandoned the words “King of France,” which had been retained for 432 years, and his style was “George III., by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith. '