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She died from a stroke in her sleep at the age of 49, and had swelled up so much that, as Brit Royals says, her coffin was practically square. Despite all efforts to produce an heir, Anne's horrific obstetric history meant that she was also the last of the House of Stuart.
Anne died around 7:30 a.m. on 1 August 1714. [195] John Arbuthnot, one of her doctors, thought her death was a release from a life of ill-health and tragedy; he wrote to Jonathan Swift, "I believe sleep was never more welcome to a weary traveller than death was to her."
Anne became queen upon William’s death in March 1702. From the first she was motivated largely by an intense devotion to the Anglican church. She detested Roman Catholics and Dissenters and sympathized with High Church Tories.
Queen Anne succeeded to the throne in 1702 on the death of her brother-in-law William III. Her father, the Catholic James II, died in France in 1701, having been overthrown by the Glorious...
Having endured ill health most of her life, Queen Anne died after suffering a stroke on Sunday 1st August 1714 at the age of 49. Queen Anne does not enjoy the same place in history as some other Queens of England, perhaps because she lacked the charisma of Elizabeth I, Mary I and Victoria, yet in her reign great deeds were done.
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. The queen's outsize coffin was interred in Westminster Abbey.
On Saturday, the Privy Council invited Georg Ludwig of Hanover to come to England as soon as possible as it was obvious the Queen's end was near. Anne died at 7:45 am on Sunday, 1 August 1714, aged 49, at Kensington Palace. The last of the Stuarts, her body lay at the palace for three weeks.
Anne died on 1 August 1714. Her only surviving son William had died in 1700, prompting parliament to pass the Act of Settlement (1701) to ensure a Protestant succession.
Anne died in August 1714, a few weeks after the Electress Sophia, so she was succeeded by Sophia's son George, as King George I. On William's death in 1702, his sister-in-law Anne (Protestant younger daughter of James II and his first wife) succeeded him.
Anne, (born Feb. 6, 1665, London, Eng.—died Aug. 1, 1714, London), Queen of Great Britain (1702–14) and the last Stuart monarch. Second daughter of James II , who was overthrown by William III in 1688, Anne became queen on William’s death (1702).