When you get passionate about something, a new hobby or sport or music or film or book series, a few things happen.

One, you begin to research.

You read the interviews, you follow the social accounts, you dig into the behind-the-scenes stories

and making-of-documentaries.

You want to know how this important thing happened

and for what reasons. Two, you discover controversies. There will inevitably be

some conflict in how your new passion is done best or whose stories closest to the truth

and you need to pick sides. Then third you become a champion, an advocate and evangelist.

Your new passion is supreme and here are 10 reasons why. Here's a

detailed account of why your favorite is better than others favorites. It might be

Stones versus Beatles, it might be weightlifting versus calisthenics.

It could be cross stitching versus embroidery.

And even within categories you get rankings like who was better,

John Paul George or Ringo. Well on today Saturday mat matinee we're exploring what two fellow history

lovers did when they went through the same progression of passion.

Fourteen years ago friends Graham Duke and Ali Hood discovered a shared love of history and

podcasts and decided to set about answering the question of who was England's greatest monarch,

going over the life of every one of them and reviewing them on a number of different factors

trying to decide whether or not they have that certain something that Graham and Ali call

the Rex Factor.

So far they've reviewed all the monarchs of England and Scotland and are

currently making their way through the consorts of England, which is why the

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