Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1702 to 1714 (1665–1714)
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She endured seventeen pregnancies and not one child survived her — a biological catastrophe that ended the Stuart line and handed the British crown to a German cousin.
Born in 1665 during her uncle Charles II's reign, Anne was raised Anglican on royal orders despite her father James's Catholicism, a faith so unpopular it cost him the throne in 1688. She married Prince George of Denmark in 1683, then watched her sister Mary and brother-in-law William take the crown in the Glorious Revolution; the sisters grew estranged over money and status until Mary's death in 1694. Anne became queen in 1702 and steered through the War of the Spanish Succession, favoring moderate Tories until she purged Whigs from office in 1710. Her tight bond with Sarah Churchill, Duchess…
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Whoever of ye Whigs thinks I am to be Hecktor'd or frighted into a Complyance tho I am a woman, are mightely mistaken in me.
[C]an you beleeve we will ever truckle to that Monster who from ye first moment of his coming has used us ...
I must tell you that I Abhor the principles of the Church of Rome as much as it is possible for any to do, and I as much value the doćtrine of the Church of England.
I know my own heart to be entirely English.
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