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Anne (centre) and her sister Mary (left) with their parents, the Duke and Duchess of York, painted by Peter Lely and Benedetto Gennari II. Anne was born at 11:39 p.m. on 6 February 1665 at St James's Palace, London, the fourth child and second daughter of the Duke of York (later King James II and VII), and his first wife, Anne Hyde. [1]
When using the revived "Queen Anne style" of the 19th and 20th centuries, the historical reference in the name should not be taken at all literally, as buildings said to be in the "Queen Anne style" in other parts of the English-speaking world normally bear even less resemblance to English buildings of the early 18th century than those of any ...
[4] [7] "The name 'Queen Anne' was first applied to the style more than a century after it was fashionable." [5] The use of Queen Anne styles in America, beginning in the 1720s and 1730s, coincided with new colonial prosperity and increased immigration of skilled British craftsmen to the colonies. [8] [9] [10] Some elements of the Queen Anne ...
Queen Anne's Bounty was a scheme established in 1704 to augment the incomes of the poorer clergy of the Church of England and by extension the organisation ("The Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy") that administered the bounty (and eventually a number of other forms of assistance to poor livings).
Queen Anne style may refer to: Queen Anne style architecture, the 18th century Queen Anne style architecture in Britain; British Queen Anne Revival architecture of the late 19th century in Britain; New World Queen Anne Revival architecture, the late 19th and early 20th centuries revival of Queen Anne style architecture, which encompasses
Anne, Queen of Great Britain (1665–1714), queen of England and Scotland (1702–1707), Ireland (1702–1714) and of Great Britain (1707–1714) . Queen Anne style architecture, an architectural style from her reign, and its revivals
Queen Anne's Revenge was an early-18th-century ship, most famously used as a flagship by Edward Teach, better known by his nickname Blackbeard.The date and place of the ship's construction are uncertain, [3] and there is no record of its actions prior to 1710 when it was operating as a French privateer as La Concorde.
The Screw Plot was an alleged assassination attempt on Queen Anne of England in 1708. [7] In St. Paul's Cathedral, loose screws were discovered in the building's supporting beams above the seating area for the Queen, [7] and it was suggested that these were intended to allow the beams to fall on the Queen and other government figures during her thanksgiving for the victory of Oudenarde. [8]