I should just post single phrase verdicts on every English monarch after the conquest. Most of them will be some variant of "pudknucker."

William I: brutally effective pudknucker
William II Rufus: debauched pudknucker
Henry I: pudknucker who should've told his son not to drink and boat
Stephen: disastrously ineffective pudknucker
Henry II: pudknucker who should've managed his marriages and his knights better.

Richard the Lionheart: bloodthirsty absentee landlord pudknucker
John: incompetent backstabbing weasel pudknucker
Henry III: antisemitic pudknucker cucked by his nobles
Edward I: okay this guy got some stuff done

Edward II: pudknucker who lost Scotland and died without a pud to knuck
Edward III: pudknucker who admittedly knew the value of longbows
Richard II: pudknucker who peaked at age 14
Henry IV: usurper pudknucker
Henry V: not bad. gave some good speeches according to Shakespeare

Henry VI: insane demented pudknucker
Edward IV: the Robb Stark of pudknuckers, keep your arranged marriage deals, pudknucker
Edward V: killed before he got the chance to reveal he was probably a pudknucker
Richard III: murderous pudknucker, but at least died like a man in battle

this is way more fun than I expected.

Henry VII: usurper but not a pudknucker, just pleasantly boring
Henry VIII: the biggest pudknucker of them all, made nation fake-Protestant bc he wanted a divorce, had its cultural heritage sacked and destroyed
Edward VI: lol who is guy, doesn't even rise to level of pudknuckery

Jane Grey: only nine days, could not accomplish any pudknuckery in that time
Bloody Mary: fanatic Catholic pudknuckeress, probably inherited the nastiness from dad
Elizabeth I: the greatest monarch in English history
James I: surly pudknucker lucky to have his name on the Bible

also James I basically started up northern ireland, which is pudknuckery in the extreme

pleased to announce that @randomhouse has dm'ed me to offer a $100,000 advance for my two-page manuscript titled "british pudknuckers."

Charles I: gotta knuck the pud hard to get your head chopped off in the public square in england
Charles II: kept pudknuckery under wraps, thus underrated
James II: let the pudknuckishness out to run free, evicted from his own house
William & Mary: safely boring, prob. b/c Dutch.

will be dead and in the cold cold ground before i recognize any 'lord protector' as a monarch but top-tier pudknuckery. literally asked his opponents swearing on the bowels of Christ to consider they might be wrong but never did himself. https://twitter.com/fearfulsymmetry/status/1352435443640512514

Anne: you just feel sad for her; 17 pregnancies and not one surviving child
George I: north German pudknucker who held little power, couldn't even pudknuck in English
George II: too busy w/his approx 1,000 mistresses, no time to knuck his pud
George III: lol you blew it dude.

George IV: spendthrift pudknucker whose only life philosophy was "it's good to be the King"
William IV: the most notable thing about this pudknucker's reign was the actresses he bedded
Victoria: leading exponent of British pudknuckery around the globe, the sun never set on it