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30,334. 1714: Queen Anne died with no heir. To make sure of a Protestant successor no fewer than fifty-seven individuals with blood ties to Anne were passed over to arrive at the next king of England. An uncharismatic, middle-aged man who didn’t speak English ... George I of Great Britain ... his coronation was greeted with rioting in twenty towns. (Great Britain & England & Scotland & Anne & George I & Riots) Simon Schama, A History of Britain: Britannia Incorporated
30,930. She [Anne] enjoyed a series of intense friendships with other women. (England & Anne & Monarchy) Monarchy by David Starkey s3e3: Rule Britannia
30,951. Anne: all of her children had died ... The last in her line. (England & Great Britain & Anne) Dr Lucy Worsley, Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History II: Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians
63,425. She meant well and was not a fool; but nobody can maintain that she was wise, nor entertaining in conversation. Sarah Churchill
52,085. A weak, irresolute woman beset by bedchamber quarrels and deciding high policy on the basis of personalities. Sarah Churchill
63,426. Queen Anne was the quintessence of ordinariness; she also had more than her fair share of small-mindedness, vulgarity and downright meanness. J P Kenyon