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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. Simon Schama, A History of Britain: Britannia Incorporated, BBC 2000
She [Anne] enjoyed a series of intense friendships with other women. Monarchy by David Starkey s3e3: Rule Britannia, Channel 4 2006
Anne: all of her children had died ... The last in her line. Dr Lucy Worsley, Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History II: Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians, BBC 2013
She meant well and was not a fool; but nobody can maintain that she was wise, nor entertaining in conversation. Sarah Churchill
A weak, irresolute woman beset by bedchamber quarrels and deciding high policy on the basis of personalities. Sarah Churchill
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
Who did your make-up? You look like a badger. The Favourite 2018 starring Olivia Colman & Rachel Weisz & Emma Stone & Nicholas Hoult & Joe Alwyn & James Smith & Mark Gatiss & Jenny Rainsford & Jack Veal, director Yorgos Lanthimos
I lost some seventeen children. Some were born as blood, some without breath and some were with me for a very brief time … Each one that dies, a little bit of you goes with them. ibid.
I’ve made her my maid of the bedchamber … I like it when she puts her tongue inside me. ibid.
Queen Anne and the forging of Great Britain. She’s gone down in history as a feeble monarch. Fat, sickly, and pushed around by her politicians. And above all by her ladies in waiting, her favourites. But did Anne really lack political skill? And was she truly a weak military leader? Royal History’s Biggest Fibs With Lucy Worsley III: Queen Anne & the Union, BBC 2020
So who started this character assassination? ibid.
But Anne’s cleverly planned debut would soon be forgotten due to the machinations of her political enemies. ibid.
Anne was urging Scotland to join a united parliament in London in return for economic rewards. ibid.
Great Britain was about to be born. ibid.
One of the biggest fibs in British history. Scotland’s archives reveal the truth about the people’s response to the idea of a union with England. ibid.
The real story of the union involved the bribery of Scottish politicians with the promise of titles and riches. ibid.
Scotland’s national poet, Rabbie Burns, was appalled by the corruption and lies. ibid.
‘We’re bought and sold for English gold —
Such a parecel of rogues in a nation!’ ibid. Robert Burns, Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation