Anne Ire of Great Britain

Anne Stuart or Anne Ire , queen of England, Scotland and Ireland of the March 19th 1702 with the March 6th 1707 (act of Union), then queen of Great Britain and Ireland of the March 6th 1707 with the 1714, the detriment of his/her half-brother the prince of Wales Jacques (1688-1766).

It is born with London with the palate Saint James the February 6th 1665, girl of Jacques II of England and his first wife, Anne Hyde (1637-1671).

In spite of conversion with the Catholicism of her father in 1672, Anne does not give up the Protestantisme and approves the inversion of Jacques II by the Glorieuse Revolution of 1688, which allows his/her sister Marie and the husband of the latter, William of Orange, to reach the capacity.

She marries with London in the same palate the July 28th 1683 prince Georges of Denmark (1653-1708) wire of Frederic III king of Denmark, which was not titrated king, contrary to the husbands of the queens Marie I {{Re}} Tudor (her husband Philippe de Habsbourg (1527-1598) was titrated king d' Angleterre and of Ireland) and Marie I {{Re}} Stuart (his/her husbands François de France (1544-1560) and Henri Stuart (1545-1567) were titrated kings of the Scot).

Succeeding her brother-in-law Guillaume de Nassau, Anne Ire is crowned with London the April 23rd 1702.

She supports the career of John Churchill, fallen in disgrace near her predecessor, confers to him the title of duke of Marlborough and charges it with the command of the army. Marlborough gains a succession of victories over France during the War of succession of Spain (1701-1714), and exerts, like his wife Sarah, a great influence on the queen during the first years of its reign.

Faithful to the Church Anglican, Anne Ire tends to support the tories , faction supporting the Church, with the detriment of the whigs . However, influenced in particular by Marlborough, it draws aside the tories initially capacity. The reign of Anne Stuart is marked by the unification of the kingdoms of England and Scotland (1707).

Mother of 12 children whose Guillaume (1689-1700) duke of Gloucester, it dies however in London with the palate of Kensington the 1714, without leaving of heir.

She has as a successor her German cousin, George, Électeur of Hanover, which reaches the throne under the name of George Ier under the terms of the Act of Establishment voted by the Parliament of Westminster in 1701.

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the ascent of Anne I {{Re}}

Simple: Anne off Great Britain

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