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- Birth nameHer Highness The Lady Anne
- Queen Anne was born on February 6, 1665 in London, England. She was married to Prince George of Denmark. She died on August 1, 1714 in London, England.
- SpousePrince George of Denmark(July 28, 1683 - October 28, 1708) (his death, 5 children)
- Ascended the throne as queen of England, Scotland and Ireland on March 8, 1702. She became the first monarch of Great Britain on May 1, 1707, after the union of England and Scotland.
- She was pregnant 17 times in her lifetime, and only five pregnancies resulted in live births. Her son Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, was her only child to survive infancy, but died at age 11 of an unknown illness.
- She was the only female heir apparent to the English or British throne in history, which was unusual because succession depended on male-preference primogeniture, so female heirs were usually the heir presumptive. After Anne's father, King James II, was deposed in 1688, the throne passed to Anne's older sister Mary II and brother-in-law William III, who reigned as co-monarchs -- Mary had the stronger claim as the older daughter of the former monarch, while her husband was also her first cousin and next in line himself after Mary and Anne, and Mary insisted on reigning with him. Mary predeceased William, who was allowed to continue reigning alone. Anne was the only eligible living child of the James II (Anne's half-brother James was barred as a Catholic), and had a stronger claim than William or any children he might father, so the throne passed to her on his death.
- She suffered from gout for much of her life which frequently rendered her lame, and had to be carried to her coronation in an open sedan chair.
- She is the most recent English or British monarch to deny royal assent to a bill of Parliament, when she vetoed the Scottish Militia Bill in 1708.
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