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I know. -- The current 50-star flag is so perfectly designed (overlapping pattern of 6 × 5 plus 5 × 4 stars) that it would be a pity to add any more states.

And fifty is such a nice number. It is just right now.

Good thing Puerto Rico voted no for becoming a state.

Okay, now you've gotten me curious. I study European Monarchies, but I haven't gotten to Scandinavia or Eastern Europe except for Russia.

Actually, the King's name is Harald, not Herald.

Krabo, the first thing I remember learning about Finland in school was that it was "de tusen sjøers land" the land of 1000 seas (strictly speaking it should've been lakes (innsjø), but the teacher said seas). IIRC there was a myth about a giant making them? Not sure if I mix up some myths now or not.
We learned the flag, the name of the capital, and sauna. Our teacher also mentioned having a sad history (being pulled between Sweden and Russia). Oh, and the name Suomi.
We also learned a Finnish song. Minon kultani kaunis on. We even had to perform part of it at juleavslutningen in 3rd of 4th grade.

My mistake. They spell these names in different way in different countries. It can be confusing, can't it?

Sometimes the spelling of a name is so different it surprises me that it's the same name.

Sure. Foreign rulers' names are generally "translated" into the readers' native language. The French kings named Louis are spelled in German and Finnish as Ludwig. The English Charles is Kaarle in Finnish history books, which is confusing because the Spanish Carlos is Kaarle, too. To make matters worse, the English Charles II and and the Spanish Carlos II had overlapping periods of reign. Both are called Kaarle II in our history books.

I remember watching the movies Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age last year, and I decided to spend a whole afternoon learning about the English/British and Spanish monarchies. (I already knew a fair bit about the English/British monarchy from school, but still I managed to learn a lot online – from Wikipedia, admittedly.)

In English, the names of Spanish monarchs seem to be Anglicised up until the early 19th century, around the time of the Napoleonic Wars: for example, Philip II rather than Felipe II, and Charles II rather than Carlos II, right up to Ferdinand VII (cf. Fernando in Spanish). After that, the Spanish names are used: Queen Isabel II rather than Elizabeth II, up to the current King Felipe VI. Not sure why this is.

^I have those two movies.

@ Krabo
yeah, I was also really surprised when I learned that England's King Jakob was really King James. I assumed it was Jacob. Well, I guess it's no worse than how they changed biblical names. I think they should leave names of specific people as they are though. We don't need the names 'translated'.

Just like Kaiser William or Wilhelm?

^ exactly.

I prefer Henry over Henri.

well, I prefer the original name for specific people, regardless of which name I personally prefer. For instance I like the name William far better than Wilhelm, but not for the historical person. His name wasn't William, nor has he asked to be called William.
I know it's common, and I don't like it. I like all the little differences and I wish to know them

Wilhelm Klink from Hogan's Heroes is a Wilhelm, rather than a William. That's when it is right. That's the version I choose in those scenarios.