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2. She was born on February 6, 1665
She was also a sickly child, and may have
suffered from the blood disease porphyria, as well
as having poor vision and a serious case of
smallpox at the age of twelve.
 As Anne grew older she would be plagued by
numerous health problems, but she survived to
adulthood.

3. She only received a limited education
Her knowledge of history was limited and she
received no instruction in civil law or military matters
that most male monarchs were expected to have.
Received Protestant religious instruction.
The events of her reign would pave the way for
Britain to become an international world power.

4. Anne married Prince George
of Denmark.
Her husband did not affect
Anne's position as he
remained politically weak
and inactive, suffering from
a drinking problem. Prince
George's influence in
matters of state would
remain small throughout
their marriage

5. William and Mary died
childless.
Anne’s only child to survive
infancy died in 1700
The Settlement Act of 1701
paved the way for Anne's
reign. It stated that if Anne
died without children the
throne would pass to the
German Hanoverians
The only challenge was her
half brother James, a Roman
Catholic living in exile in
France.
William died in 1702, the
throne then passed to Anne.

6.  Anne's reign would be
characterized by the
attempts of others to
manipulate her.
During her reign she
would oversee two major
events in English history,
one domestic and one
foreign.
After her death Britain was
the most important
country in Europe.
Sea hegemony and the
Financial Revolution
paved the way for the
Empire.

7.  Sea hegemony and the
Financial Revolution paved
the way for the Empire.
She detested Roman
Catholics and Dissenters
and sympathized with High
Church Tories. At the same
time, she sought to be free
from the domination of the
political parties.
At first most of her
ministers were Tories

8.  A friend of Anne's since
childhood
After Anne became queen,
she named Sarah to other
prominent posts including
Keeper of the Privy Purse,
Mistress of the Robes and
Groom of the Stole.
John Churchill’s wife
Strong Whig sympathies.
Fell out of favour because
of his domineering attitude.

9. He had been one of
William’s Generals and
was given control of both
the British and Dutch
forces in Europe.
His victories were
impressive but also costly
for the British
His victories at Blenheim
(1704) and Ramillies (1706)
rank among the greatest in
British history.

11. The War of the Grand Alliance ended in 1697, the
issue of the Spanish succession was becoming critical.
Treaty of The Hague (1698) England and France
agreed to the (the First Partition Treaty), which
named Joseph Ferdinand heir to the Spanish throne,
but divided Spanish territory in Italy and the Low
Countries between France and Austria.
This decision was taken without consulting the
Spanish, who vehemently objected to the
dismemberment of their empire.

12. Louis XIV
was the most powerful
Catholic monarch in Europe

14. In 1698 Charles II of Spain agreed to name the Bavarian
Prince his heir, but assigned to him the whole Spanish
Empire, not just the parts England and France had chosen.
The young Bavarian prince abruptly died of smallpox in
1699.
The Treaty of London : England and France soon ratified
the Second Partition Treaty, 1700, assigning the Spanish
throne to the Archduke Charles.
Charles took steps to prevent the union of France and
Spain; should Anjou have inherited the French throne,
Spain would have gone to his younger brother, the duc de
Berri.

15. Charles II died in
November 1700 and
Louis XIV proclaimed
Anjou King of Spain. The
new King, Philip V, was
declared ruler of the
entire Spanish empire.
Contrary to the
provisions of the Second
Partition Treaty.

16. Philip was recognised as King Philip V of Spain, but
renounced his place in the French line of succession,
thereby precluding the union of the French and
Spanish crowns.

17. France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic, were left
weakened.
It took France a decade to recover, and Spain and
Holland were unable to reverse their military and
economic decline.

18. England expanded its colonial empire in Canada and
the Caribbean and maintained possession of Gibraltar
and Minorca in the Mediterranean.
Britain was able to remain aloof from war on the
Continent for a quarter of a century after the
Hanoverian succession, and this protracted peace was
to be crucial to the new dynasty's survival and
success.

19. At first Anne favoured Tory policies but soon
discovered that she disagreed with the Tories on
strategy for the war.
Anne, Marlborough and the Whigs wanted to
command English troops to continental campaigns.
 Consequently, as Marlborough accumulated
impressive victories on the Continent, pressure was
exerted on Anne to admit Whigs to the ministry.
As the war dragged on, the nation turned against the
Whigs.
 In 1710, Anne was able to expel them and appoint a
Tory ministry. She dismissed both Marlboroughs from
her service in 1711.

20. He always shrank from being
labelled a Tory
Tories were divided over who
should succeed Anne,
particularly during the queen's
serious illness in 1713.
There were more Hanoverian
Tories than Jacobite Tories
(supporters of James II and his
son, James III)
Both Harley and Bolingbroke
were in correspondence with
James III, but Harley made it
plain that he would only support
a Protestant succession.

21. The Settlement Act of 1701 had angered Scotland.
The Scots threatened to bring back James, Anne's
Roman Catholic half-brother and pretender to the
throne, to rule.
To head off a revolt and unite support for the
crown, Anne pushed for the Act of Union which
would unite England and Scotland.
The Act of Union was finally accepted in 1707.

22. In the last couple years of her life
Anne became very ill. She was often
bedridden and attended to by
doctors.
These doctors used many
techniques to try to cure Anne
including bleeding her and
applying hot irons.
Anne died on July 31st 1714.
George I acceded to the British
throne

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