Anne, Queen of Great Britain

Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1702 to 1714 (1665–1714)

  • Fame69.6
  • Momentum12.2
  • Historical Figures rank#93
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  • Fame69.6
  • Momentum12.2
  • Historical Figures rank#93
  • Wikipedia204.4K
Lived 1665–1714, aged 49United Kingdom
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  • Era
    1665–1714
    Aged 49
Summary
Updated 2026-06-08

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.

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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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Anne, Queen of Great Britain
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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.
Letter to Lord Godolphin (12 September 1707), from Edward Gregg, Queen Anne (2001), p. 250.
Anne, Queen of Great Britain
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[C]an you beleeve we will ever truckle to that Monster who from ye first moment of his coming has used us ...
Letter to Lady Marlborough after William III demanded that she dismiss Lady Marlborough from her household (19 March 1692), quoted in
Anne, Queen of Great Britain
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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.
Letter to her sister, (29 April 1686), quoted in and in According with Somerset, Anne had absorbed the anti-Catholic sentiments of Bishop
Anne, Queen of Great Britain
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I know my own heart to be entirely English.
Anne's first speech to Parliament, contrasting her Englishness with her Dutch predecessor, William III, and the French-raised Pretender (11
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Fame
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69.6
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Momentum12.2
Historical31.4
Now attention43.6
Source confidence60.0
Completeness70.0
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#93
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