What were the last decisions that an English or a British monarch made that were forced on Parliament?
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In 2019 Her late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, prorogued Parliament (that is to say she suspended it from sitting) from 10th September until, she said, 14th October. She did this on the advice of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The Court of Session, the highest court in Scotland, ruled that Mr Johnson had been wrong to advise the Queen as he did; and the UK Supreme Court upheld the ruling on appeal. The prorogation was lifted and Parliament resumed sitting on 24th September.
Mr Johnson, it is widely thought, wished to prevent Parliament overturning his arrangements for Brexit and for this reason advised Her Majesty to prorogue Parliament which she had power to do.
Certainly Parliament did not wish to be prorogued and so the decision was forced upon it. The order came from the Queen, although she was simply following her Prime Minister's advice. Does this meet the criteria of the question? It is debatable.
The power to recess Parliament is used regularly and uncontroversially, for example around Christmas, Easter, Whitsun and Summer. But in 2019 it was extremely controversial. Very few people, if any at all, blamed Her Majesty for taking her Prime Minister's advice. They blamed him for giving it, illeegally as it turned out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_British_prorogation_controversy
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It depends on how you want to interpret "Forced on Parliament". If you accept "changed Parliament to get what he wants" there are a couple of notable examples, because until 1911, the monarch could still mess with the House of Lords:
As I explained in this other answer of mine, George III wanted the Whigs under Charles Fox out of power, so he bullied the House of Lords into blocking a 1784 bill to reform the East India Company. This gave him a pretext to dismiss the Portland (Fox/North) government, and appoint William Pitt the Younger pending an election. Events unfolded in a way to give Pitt's party a majority.
In 1832, Prime Minister Earl Grey was having trouble getting the Reform Act through the House of Lords, and requested William IV to give peerages to a lot of pro-reformers. William did this, and the bill passed. But, being as this was at the request of the Prime Minister, it may not fit your criteria.
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