Person:Anne of Great Britain (1)

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Anne (6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714) ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8 March 1702. On 1 May 1707, under the Act of Union, two of her realms, the kingdoms of England and Scotland, were united as a single sovereign state, the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Anne's Catholic father, James II and VII, was deposed during the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688. Her Protestant brother-in-law and cousin William III became joint monarch with his wife, Anne's sister Mary II. After Mary's death in 1694, William continued as sole monarch until he was succeeded by Anne upon his own death in 1702.

Anne favoured moderate Tory politicians, who were more likely to share her Anglican religious views than their opponents, the Whigs. The Whigs grew more powerful during the course of the War of the Spanish Succession, until in 1710 Anne dismissed many of them from office. Her close friendship with Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, turned sour as the result of political differences.

Despite seventeen pregnancies, Anne died without surviving children and was the last monarch of the House of Stuart. She was succeeded by her second cousin George I of the House of Hanover, who was a descendant of the Stuarts through his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth, daughter of James VI and I.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Gregg, Edward. Queen Anne. (Routledge, 1984), pg. 4, Secondary quality.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Gregg, Edward. Queen Anne. (Routledge, 1984), pg. 394, Secondary quality.
3.   Anne of Great Britain, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. (Online: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.).
4. ↑ Anne I, in Find A Grave.
5. ↑ The moniker Lady Anne applied from birth to ascension to the throne.