Dies! She even feigns fainting to escape a particularly challenging moment in parliament, then dwells over the aftermath: I looked like a fool. [91] She gained weight as a result of her sedentary lifestyle; in Sarah's words, "she grew exceeding gross and corpulent. At just 37, she was too unwell and overweight to walk the traditional processional route from Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey - about 400ft - by herself. Fat! She had no solid material or food in her stomach; only a dark green material that had "the consistency of dried leaves." Both her stomach and bowel were swollen. She detested Roman Catholics and Dissenters and sympathized with High Church Tories. In October 1697, she was suffering from "vapours", which could mean headaches or even depression. [11] Jennings married John Churchill (the future Duke of Marlborough) in about 1678. Some Lesser Known Facts About Elizabeth I of England. "[37] Anne became estranged from her father and stepmother, as James moved to weaken the Church of England's power. Queen Victoria's birthday was on May 24, 1819. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. She was also the second model to die from an eating disorder during 2006. After Mary's death in 1694, William reigned alone until his own death in 1702, when Anne succeeded him. However, the Daily Mail reports that only Elizabeth's eldest children, the now King Charles III, and Princess Anne, Princess Royal, actually made it to her bedside to say goodbye before she died that afternoon at 4:30 p.m. Charles and Anne were the only two children in Scotland at the time, and the rest of the royal family has to fly to reach . [40] In letters to her sister Mary, Anne raised suspicions that the Queen was faking her pregnancy in an attempt to introduce a false heir. If you only know one thing about Queen Anne, its probably that she was fat. [42], Anne's stepmother gave birth to a son, James Francis Edward Stuart, on 10 June 1688, and a Catholic succession became more likely. The Scot Sir John Clerk, 1st Baronet, who also attended, wrote, "nobody on this occasion appeared more sincerely devout and thankful than the Queen herself". They were all staring, werent they? [124] Her first ministry was predominantly Tory, and contained such High Tories as Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, and her uncle Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester. [219], As queen regnant, Anne's coat of arms before the union were the Stuart royal arms, in use since 1603: Quarterly; I and IV grandquarterly, Azure three fleurs-de-lis Or (for France) and Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or (for England); II, Or, a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules (for Scotland); III, Azure, a harp Or stringed Argent (for Ireland). 316317, Curtis, pp. [18] In October, they returned to Britain, the Duke and Duchess to Scotland and Anne to England. [183] Nevertheless, gossip that Anne and her ministers favoured the succession of her half-brother rather than the Hanoverians continued, despite Anne's denials in public and in private. Her Height was 1.62 m and Weight was 53 kg. One just walks around with them, and sometimes one can feel them filling with blood. Field notes that historic accounts of Anne and Sarahs relationship often locate the turning point in their relationship with an anecdote suggesting that Sarah once accidentally wore Queen Annes gloves, but threw them off in disgust when she realised, shouting, Have I put anything on that has touched the odious hands of that disagreeable woman? Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929. Having been taken ill on the morning of 30 July she died around 7.30 a.m. on 1 August 1714 at. [164], Sarah continued to berate Anne for her friendship with Abigail and, in October 1709, Anne wrote to the Duke of Marlborough asking that his wife "leave off teasing & tormenting me & behave herself with the decency she ought both to her friend and Queen". The new arms were: Quarterly; I and IV, Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or (for England) impaling Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules (for Scotland); II, Azure, three fleurs-de-lis Or (for France); III, Azure, a harp Or stringed Argent (for Ireland). And you can rely on me to tell you.. "[47], To dispel rumours of a supposititious child, James had 40 witnesses to the birth attend a Privy Council meeting, but Anne claimed she could not attend because she was pregnant (which she was not)[48] and then declined to read the depositions because it was "not necessary". "[191] On 27 July 1714, during Parliament's summer recess, she dismissed Harley as Lord Treasurer. In PEOPLE's . On 1 May 1707, under the Acts of Union, the kingdoms of England and Scotland united as a single sovereign state known as Great Britain. In general, the Tories were supportive of the Anglican church and favoured the landed interest of the country gentry, while the Whigs were aligned with commercial interests and Protestant Dissenters. Where was Anne Boleyn born? Queen Anne is one of Britains lesser known monarchs. 7880; Green, pp. (Fox Searchlight). [80] Anne experienced bouts of "gout" (pains in her limbs and eventually stomach and head) from at least 1698. As the war dragged on, the nation turned against the Whigs. Anne's husband was placed in an unfortunate position when Anne forced him to vote for the bill, even though, being a Lutheran, he was an occasional conformist himself. Waller, p. 313; see also Somerset, pp. 458460, Curtis, p. 190; Green, p. 263; Gregg, pp. Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz) dresses Queen Anne. In becoming Queen, she had to give up her title as Duchess of Brittany. The Coldest Case in Laramie: yet another bleak true crime podcast, From Sophie Mackintosh to Stephen Moss: new books reviewed in short, Universal Credit falls short of covering the bare essentials. 1921; Green, p. 20; Gregg, p. 6, Curtis, pp. [21], Anne's second cousin George of Hanover visited London for three months from December 1680, sparking rumours of a potential marriage between them. [198] Marlborough was reinstated,[199] and the Tory ministers were replaced by Whigs.[200]. Forbidden by James to pay Mary a projected visit in the spring of 1687,[50] Anne corresponded with her and was aware of the plans to invade. Queen Elizabeth's children Charles, Anne, and Edward wore military uniforms to her ceremonial funeral events in London on . [16] By the time she recovered, Mary had already left for her new life in the Netherlands. Diana also left Harry and William a sum of 12,966,022 as their inheritance after she tragically died in 1997. It was Sarah, Field writes, after the relationship had soured who turned Anne into the caricature of insipid heaviness that makes her appear a minor figure beside, say, Elizabeth I or Queen Victoria. Robert Bucholz, in a comprehensive, definitive analysis of how contemporary and subsequent depictions of Queen Annes body relate to how individuals rate her as a ruler, writes that what strikes the historian of Annes body is how, for all periods since her death, there seems to be a direct correlation, in both popular and scholarly accounts, between how an author portrays the queens physical size and shape from pleasantly maternal to grossly obese and his or her estimation of Annes political abilities and achievements as sovereign. Of her five liveborn children, four died before the age of two. 3537; Green, p. 31; Gregg, p. 24; Somerset, pp. [75] Three months later, William restored Marlborough to his offices. Queen Victoria famously gained weight after the sudden death of Prince Albert in 1861. [134] They were forced to rely more and more on support from the Whigs, and particularly from the Whig JuntoLords Somers, Halifax, Orford, Wharton and Sunderlandwhom Anne disliked. Princess Anne: Overshadowed royal plays stoic role as U.K. mourns queen. She was 96. Anne was the second daughter of James, duke of York (King James II, 168588), and Anne Hyde. [131] A third attempt to introduce the bill as an amendment to a money bill in November 1704 was also thwarted. AFP/Getty Images "She's not like Queen Victoria, who was very concerned about her legacy forever . It was Sarah who persuaded Anne to side with the Protestant ruler William III of Orange, stadtholder of the Netherlands, when William overthrew James II in 1688. Her health gradually deteriorated in the final twenty years of her life. [177] Seeing a need for decisive action to erase the anti-peace majority in the House of Lords, and seeing no alternative, Anne reluctantly created twelve new peers,[178] even though such a mass creation of peers was unprecedented. Cut it off for me, will you? We watch as her health deteriorates, her eye drooping, her mouth sloping, her left arm losing mobility, her appearance growing wilder and more dishevelled. [179] Abigail's husband, Samuel Masham, was made a baron, although Anne protested to Harley that she "never had any design to make a great lady of [Abigail], and should lose a useful servant". [176] In the House of Commons, the Tory majority was unassailable, but the same was not true in the House of Lords. [67] In January 1692, suspecting that Marlborough was secretly conspiring with James's followers, the Jacobites, William and Mary dismissed him from all his offices. [6] On the instructions of Charles II, they were raised as Protestants, despite their father being a Catholic. 3235; Somerset, p. 44, Curtis, p. 42; Green, p. 34; Gregg, p. 35; Somerset, pp. [166], As the expensive War of the Spanish Succession grew unpopular, so did the Whig administration. [65] From around this time,[66] at Anne's request she and Sarah Churchill, Lady Marlborough, began to call each other the pet names Mrs. Morley and Mrs. Freeman, respectively, to facilitate a relationship of greater equality between the two when they were alone. [64] The new king and queen feared that Anne's financial independence would weaken their influence over her and allow her to organise a rival political faction. 275276; Somerset, p. 362; Waller, pp. Anne had seventeen pregnancies, of which five were live births. [209] In architecture, Sir John Vanbrugh constructed Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. When she is seen, its as a punchline: The Favourite is the first depiction of her on screen since 1983s Yellowbeard, where she was played for laughs in a brief turn from Peter Bull in drag. Sophia was the granddaughter of James VI and I through his daughter Elizabeth, who was the sister of Anne's grandfather Charles I. They were produced at the Mint by Isaac Newton and John Croker. After that marriage, Charles had Anne's marriage to Maximilian annulled. [68] Lady Marlborough was subsequently removed from the royal household by the Lord Chamberlain, and Anne angrily left her royal lodgings and took up residence at Syon House, the home of the Duke of Somerset. [194], Anne died around 7:30a.m. on 1 August 1714. Queen Victoria supported the constitutional. In 2011, the Independent wrote that the singer "only" had around 2 million when she died, while Roshni Murthy of ABC News reported that she was presumably worth "between $15 million to $30 million." Wealth estimation sites such as Celebrity Net Worth and the Richest both place her net worth Author: Pauli Poisuo In her later years, she also. [33], When Charles II died in 1685, Anne's father became King James II of England and VII of Scotland. 389390; Waller, p. 325, Curtis, p. 173; Green, pp. [123], Anne's reign was marked by the further development of a two-party system. On Charles's death in 1685, James succeeded to the throne, but just three years later he was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. To also give him the Spanish throne was no longer in Britain's interests, but the proposed Peace of Utrecht submitted to Parliament for ratification did not go as far as the Whigs wanted to curb Bourbon ambitions. [12], In 1673, the Duke of York's conversion to Catholicism became public, and he married a Catholic princess, Mary of Modena, who was only six and a half years older than Anne. 1. [100] Anne gave control of the army to Lord Marlborough, whom she appointed Captain-General. [60] The Bill of Rights 1689 and Claim of Right Act 1689 settled the succession. Anne and Mary had a bitter falling-out, and after Marys death in 1694 William cultivated Annes goodwill, but he refused to appoint her regent during his absences from England. A queen is never wrong. In a public show of support for the Marlboroughs, Anne took Sarah to a social event at the palace, and refused her sister's request to dismiss Sarah from her household. Colman, who gained weight for the role, triumphantly accepted a Golden Globes for her performance saying, I ate constantly through the film and it was brilliant., Annes size, appetite and infirmity become symbols of her unsatisfying and decaying relationship with the Duchess of Marlborough. At the door of St Paul's Cathedral, they had an argument that culminated in Sarah offending the Queen by telling her to be quiet. [10], Around 1671, Anne first made the acquaintance of Sarah Jennings, who later became her close friend and one of her most influential advisors. published November 25, 2021. Everyone leaves me! Anne, the lastStuartmonarch, was queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1702 to 1714. When Queen Elizabeth II died at her Highlands castle in Scotland, age 96, Anne, who was very close to her mother, was there with . Anne, however, insisted on carrying out the duties of Lord High Admiral herself, without appointing a member of the government to take George's place. At her Anglican baptism in the Chapel Royal at St James's, her older sister, Mary, was one of her godparents, along with the Duchess of Monmouth and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Gilbert Sheldon. ", lamented James on discovering the desertion of his daughter on 26 November, "Even my children have forsaken me. 134, 138139; Green, pp. [169] In line with Anne's views, Sacheverell was convicted, but his sentencesuspension of preaching for three yearswas so light as to render the trial a mockery. According to Today, she very sadly died of an accidental overdose. [142], The following month, Anne's Catholic half-brother, James Francis Edward Stuart, attempted to land in Scotland with French assistance in an attempt to establish himself as king. Anne Rice passed away at the age of 80 on December 11 . The leadership of the Admiralty was unpopular among the Whig leaders, who had blamed Prince George and his deputy George Churchill (who was Marlborough's brother) for mismanagement of the navy. Charles II had no legitimate children, and so the Duke of York was next in the line of succession, followed by his two surviving daughters from his first marriage, Mary and Anneas long as he had no son. When Queen Victoria died at the age of 81 on 22 January 1901, it took her family, court and subjects by surprise - very few had been able to contemplate the mortality of the monarch who had ruled over Britain and its empire for almost 64 years. [29] They were given a set of buildings, known as the Cockpit, in the Palace of Whitehall as their London residence,[30] and Sarah Churchill was appointed one of Anne's ladies of the bedchamber. Despite 17 pregnancies, she died without surviving issue and was the last monarch of the House of Stuart. After their spectacular falling out, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, wrote a damning account of their friendship that paints a lasting portrait of Anne as miserable, dull, childish, and exceedingly gross and corpulent. 195196; Gregg, p. 276; Somerset, pp. "[218] In line with other monarchs of England between 1340 and 1800, Anne was styled "Queen of France", but did not actually reign in France. The Queen's coronation took place on June 2, 1953 after her father, George VI, died. The influence of Sarah Churchill (now duchess of Marlborough) over Anne was slight after 1703, though the duke remained commander of the British forces. [76] With Anne's restoration at court, Berkeley House became a social centre for courtiers who had previously avoided contact with Anne and her husband. She Wasn't Close To Being Queen No one in England heralded the birth of a future queen when Anne was born. The Peep Show star wanted to get into . [144] She was the last British sovereign to veto a parliamentary bill, although her action was barely commented upon at the time. In 1714, after years of increasingly ill health, Queen Anne died at the age of 49. We can give no further account, they conclude, being forbid making any other inspection than what was absolutely necessary. 301311, Green, p. 156; Gregg, pp. At just 37, she was too unwell and overweight to walk the traditional processional route from Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey about 400ft by herself. Anne (6 February 1665 1 August 1714)[b] was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland from 8 March 1702 until 1 May 1707. The Whig politician John Clerk, after twice encountering the Queen during an acute attack of painful gout, wrote in horror of Annes frightful red and spotted face, negligent dress, nasty bandages and dirty-like rags, surmising that Anne appeared to be the most despicable mortal I had ever seen in any situation. Anne died after suffering a stroke at the age of 49 in 1714. Full Name: Anne Stuart, Queen of Great Britain. In 1677, the 15-year-old Mary was the first to be wedded, and she was given to her first cousin, William of Orange. She had plenty of different drugs in her system. SPOILER ALERT: This story includes details from the Queen of the South finale, "El Final." Teresa Mendoza will always be one step ahead, even in death. Queen Elizabeth II's shoe size was 4 UK (6 US, 36 EU). Copy. The Queen's daughter Princess Anne is named as the "informant" on the document and would have . Born Name. [204], In the opinion of modern historians, traditional assessments of Anne as fat, constantly pregnant, under the influence of favourites, and lacking political astuteness or interest may derive from sexist prejudices against women. 100, 120; Weir, pp. [133] Godolphin, Marlborough, and Harley, who had replaced Nottingham as Secretary of State for the Northern Department, formed a ruling "triumvirate". Consequently, as Marlborough accumulated impressive victories on the Continent, pressure was exerted on Anne to admit Whigs to the ministry. She had been pregnant at least 17 times over as many years, and had miscarried or given birth to stillborn children at least 12 times. Scrutinised, criticised, reanimated: more than 300 years after her death, the relentless dissection of Queen Annes body is, it seems, still not complete. She would be the last Stuart monarch, as according to the Act of Succession (1701), the throne passed to the . A marriage treaty between Anne and Prince George of Denmark, younger brother of King Christian V, and Anne's second cousin once removed, was negotiated by Anne's uncle Laurence Hyde, who had been made Earl of Rochester, and the English Secretary of State for the Northern Department, Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland. Buckingham Palace confirmed her death in a statement. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. [109], While Ireland was subordinate to the English Crown and Wales formed part of the kingdom of England, Scotland remained an independent sovereign state with its own parliament and laws. 72, 120; Weir, p. 268. This Is Why Queen Elizabeth I Died a Virgin at Age 69 Field notes the 18th century correlation between the Queens body and the body politic made reactions to Annes body particularly strong. [172] In January 1711, Anne forced Sarah to resign her court offices, and Abigail took over as Keeper of the Privy Purse. We watch, in slow motion, as she is dressed in hunting gear. Anne gave birth at seven months, but the baby "lay dead a full month within her". This page was last edited on 19 February 2023, at 08:05. From 1685 to 1700, Anne lost 17 children, through miscarriage, stillbirth and disease during infancy and childhood. Within months, the War of the Spanish Succession began. Occupation: Queen regnant of Great Britain. [148] In July 1708, she came to court with a bawdy poem written by a Whig propagandist, probably Arthur Maynwaring,[149] that implied a lesbian relationship between Anne and Abigail. [94] Anne ordered her household to observe a day of mourning every year on the anniversary of his death. [129] The Occasional Conformity Bill was revived in the wake of the storm,[130] but Anne withheld support, fearing its reintroduction was a ruse to cause a political quarrel. Queen Anne outlived her husband George by six years; she died at the age of 49 on 1 August 1714 at Kensington Palace after suffering two strokes. Upon opening the Body of her Late Majesty of Blessed Memory, we found a small umbilical hernia, her doctors remark, before going on to describe her too smooth stomach, her tender and flaccid liver, and a small ulcer on her left leg. History has been less restrained. The razor-tongued Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz) and the social-climbing ladys maidAbigail Masham (Emma Stone) are locked in a battle over who has the privilege of rubbing the Queens leg. Our weekly culture newsletter from books and art to pop culture and memes sent every Friday. The queens advancing age and her infirmities made the succession a crucial issue. The Duke of Cambridge looked sombre as he was pictured driving his uncles through the gates of the Scottish residence in a Range Rover at 5.06pm. On April 26 1923, The Queen's parents King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (then the Duke and Duchess of York) were also married at the Abbey. The Queen ascended to the throne in 1952 at the tender age of 25, and was on a royal tour of Kenya when Philip delicately broke the news that her father, King George VI, had died. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. Anne soon discovered that she disagreed with the Tories on strategy for the war. [98] In her first speech to the English Parliament, on 11 March, she distanced herself from her late Dutch brother-in-law and said, "As I know my heart to be entirely English, I can very sincerely assure you there is not anything you can expect or desire from me which I shall not be ready to do for the happiness and prosperity of England. The New Statesmans global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. 7576; Green, p. 58; Gregg, p. 80, Curtis, pp. Its like a monster attacking me. Queen Anne died on the 16 March 1485. [90] Around her estates, she used a one-horse chaise, which she drove herself "furiously like Jehu and a mighty hunter like Nimrod". The sisters never saw each other again. You cannot just eat and eat. Once their friendship is irrevocably destroyed, Anne says curtly, Some wounds do not close. 8082, Letter dated 14 March 1688, quoted in Gregg, p. 54 and Waller, p. 303, Green, p. 39; Gregg, p. 47; Somerset, p. 74, Lord Clarendon's diary, quoted in Green, p. 49, Curtis, pp. The connotations of the glove anecdote, Field observes, include the obvious one of the gloves coming off in the arguments between Anne and Sarah, but the story also focuses the readers attention on Sarahs rejection of Annes body. The beautiful, intelligent Sarah became Annes lady of the bedchamber and soon had the princess in her power. [220] In Scotland, a separate form of arms was used on seals until the Act of Union.[222]. [106], She took a lively interest in affairs of state, and was a patron of theatre, poetry and music. But stories of her reign habitually start and end the same way, bookended with these two images. [51] On the advice of the Churchills,[46] she refused to side with James after William landed and instead wrote to William on 18 November declaring her approval of his action. By the Bill of Rights (1689), William and his wife, Mary, Annes elder sister, were made king and queen of England, and Anne was placed in line for the succession to the throne. 108109; Gregg, pp. When was Queen Victoria born? [72], When Mary died of smallpox in 1694, William continued to reign alone. 337338; Somerset, p. 79; Waller, pp. It's believed the 96-year-old had already passed. She. She detested Roman Catholics and Dissenters and sympathized with High Church Tories. Queen Elizabeth II - Height, Weight, Age Queen Elizabeth II Date of Birth: April 21, 1926 Date of Death: September 8, 2022 (Age: 96) Height: 163 cm (5 ft 4) Weight: 70 kg or 154 pounds (approximately) Eye color: Blue Hair Color: Grey Many people think that queens or kings live like in a fairy tale and their life is rich and care free. That needs to change, The autonomous future is nearly here with Wejo, The need to grow Londons EV infrastructure at speed and scale. The queen didn't pause between courses. She resisted obstinately and even grew cold toward the duchess, who adopted the cause of the Whig politicians. Born: February 6, 1665 at St. James's Palace, London, United Kingdom. Anne Boleyn is the most famous of Henry VIII's six wives, executed by a French swordsman on 19 May 1536 after being arrested for adultery and incest. (If drowned in a bath of hot chocolate, Anne tells us grinning, she would die happy.) Her funeral occurred in March. published March 30, 2021. [127] Anne reinstituted the traditional religious practice of touching for the king's evil that had been eschewed by William as papist superstition. But he was weak from birth. In a 2001 work on royal doctors and medical treatments in court, Elizabeth Lane Furdell writes colourfully of the symptoms of Annes gout, including monstrous swelling, grotesque postures and flatulent contortions, as well as describing, in a grim and emotionless turn of phrase, the Queens tragic fecundity. Anne ruled during the early Enlightenment (1685-1815), an era of rational investigation that produced the bedrock of modern humanism and liberal ethics, which happened right when the War of Spanish Succession broke out, as the BBC explains, mere months after Anne took the throne. When the Queen seemed to hesitate, Marlborough and Godolphin refused to attend a cabinet meeting. In 1702, Anne adopted the motto semper eadem ("always the same"), the same motto used by Queen Elizabeth I. Portrait of Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660-1744), c. 1700, by Charles Jervas. Sure, plenty of the details are obscured, but the movie does have known figures doing sketchy stuff that doesn't feel too far off from modern politics. I was much affected by this sight[93], Anne's sole surviving child, the Duke of Gloucester, died at age 11 on 30 July 1700. [141] Her hand forced, the Queen dismissed Harley. [156], At a thanksgiving service for a victory at the Battle of Oudenarde, Anne did not wear the jewels that Sarah had selected for her. For medical treatment, she was sent to France, where she lived with her paternal grandmother, Henrietta Maria of France, at the Chteau de Colombes near Paris. [52] Churchill abandoned the unpopular King James on the 24th. [145] The invasion fleet never landed and was chased away by British ships commanded by Sir George Byng. Subscribe for the best of our politics, international affairs, culture and business coverage, straight to your inbox. DIED AT AGE. 1113; Waller, p. 295, Curtis, pp. James fled to France on the 23rd. The Queen stepped out for a second appearance in a row this week amid ongoing health concerns. ! without knowing the Queen could hear from outside the door. 273274; Somerset, pp. This fucking leg, she mutters. Anne was the last English monarch to practice the royal touch touching her subjects to supposedly cure their skin diseases. She shares cake with Abigail and her rabbits, and demands hot chocolate, despite Sarahs insistence that the sugar inflames her stomach to the extent that a bucket and a mop for the aftermath will be required. William and Mary refused the first, and unsuccessfully opposed the latter, both of which caused tension between the two sisters. It has been estimated that it would weigh between 250kg and 317kg. [71] Later that year, Anne moved to Berkeley House in Piccadilly, London, where she had a stillborn daughter in March 1693. 321322; Somerset, p. 527; Waller, p. 328, Hensbergen, Claudine; Bernard, Stephen (2014) "Introduction". Victoria didn't just eat individual dishes quickly, she polished off entire meals in record time. 102103, Gregg, pp. 293295, Curtis, pp. His sister, Arabella Churchill, was the Duke of York's mistress, and he was to be Anne's most important general. Her mother died the following year. After she died, the results of Queen Annes autopsy were recorded in a document titled, Upon the Observations of the Opening of the Queens Body (which brings to mind a perversely satisfying image of the Queens corpse as a cabinet). In 1713 an agreement between Spain and Britain granted the British a monopoly on the slave trade with the Spanish colonies. She spent much of her life in poor health. How much did Anne Boleyn weigh? 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