Anne, Queen of Great Britain - Wikipedia
Anne (6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714) [a] was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 8 March 1702, and Queen of Great Britain and Ireland following the ratification of the Acts of Union 1707 merging the kingdoms of Scotland and England, until her death in 1714.
Anne | Biography, Reign, & Facts | Britannica - Encyclopedia Britannica
Anne (born February 6, 1665, London, England—died August 1, 1714, London) was the queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1702 to 1714 who was the last Stuart monarch. She wished to rule independently, but her intellectual limitations and chronic ill health caused her to rely heavily on her ministers, who directed England ’s efforts against ...
Anne, Queen of Great Britain - World History Encyclopedia
Sep 16, 2022 · Anne reigned as Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1702 and then, following the 1707 Act of Union, over a united kingdom as Queen of Great Britain until her death in 1714. The last of the Stuart monarchs, Anne's reign witnessed the Spanish War of Succession which helped Britain establish itself as a major world power.
Life and reign of Anne, Queen of Great Britain | Britannica
Anne, (born Feb. 6, 1665, London, Eng.—died Aug. 1, 1714, London), Queen of Great Britain (1702–14) and the last Stuart monarch. Second daughter of James II, who was overthrown by William III in 1688, Anne became queen on William’s death (1702).
Queen Anne - Historic UK
Queen Anne (1665 – 1714) was the last of the Stuarts, the second daughter of James II and his first wife Ann Hyde. She was shy, conscientious, stout, gouty, shortsighted and very small. Anne did not have a particularly happy married life. By all accounts her husband, Prince George of Denmark, was a drunk and a crashing bore.
Biography of Queen Anne, Britain's Forgotten Queen Regnant
Sep 28, 2018 · Queen Anne, the Stuart dynasty's final ruler, was an influential queen regnant who supported the overthrow of her father in the Glorious Revolution.
Anne, Queen of Great Britain - Simple English Wikipedia, the …
Anne of Great Britain (6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714) was the Queen of England (which included Wales), Scotland and Ireland. During her reign, the kingdoms of England and Scotland came together to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain (the first form of the United Kingdom). [1] For this reason, she is the first monarch to rule over the UK.
Anne (r. 1702-1714) - The Royal Family
Anne died in August 1714, a few weeks after the Electress Sophia, so she was succeeded by Sophia's son George, as King George I. On William's death in 1702, his sister-in-law Anne (Protestant younger daughter of James II and his first wife) succeeded him. Within months, another war in...
Queen Anne: The First Monarch of Great Britain - History Things
Aug 12, 2023 · Queen Anne of Great Britain was the last monarch of the House of Stuart, reigning as Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1702-1707 and Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1707-1714. During her reign, the kingdoms England and Scotland merged as one to become Great Britain under the Acts of Union on May 1, 1707.
Anne (r.1702-1714) - The Royal Family
In 1714, Queen Anne died, the last Stuart monarch. Sophia of Hanover had died only a few weeks previously, and so her eldest son George, Elector of Hanover became George I of Great Britain.