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Perhaps without fully realizing it as events developed, Princess Anne Stuart played a role in the series of events that brought a German who spoke no English from Hanover to London to become king of Great Britain in 1714. The trouble began with the birth of a royal baby in 1688....
Many of you have seen or heard of the 2018 black comedy film The Favorite, nominated for 10 Academy awards, about the reign of Queen Anne (1702-14), the last of the Stuart monarchs, and wondered whether any of the more…
George I, a German Prince Possibly the most drastic change in the British monarchy that was not the result of a war, occurred because those in power in England were determined that Great Britain would never…