Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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]
Queen Anne pistols are a type of breech-loading flintlock pistol known as a turn-off pistol, in which the chamber is filled from the front and accessed by unscrewing the barrel. Another distinguishing feature of the design is that the lock-plate and the breech section (chamber) of the firearm are forged as a single piece.
A Queen Anne carved and figured mahogany tall case clock, by Peter Stretch in Philadelphia, built around 1740, was bought at auction by Winterthur Museum and Country Estate on October 28, 2004, for $1.7 million, the highest price ever paid for an American clock.
Minnie Mouse portrays the role of a princess (apparently the daughter of King Louis XIII and Queen Anne, which would make her a female equivalent of Louis XIV) who rules the Kingdom of France but is a victim of being overthrown by the villainous Pete (see princess and dragon). In real-life such an ascension would be contrary to Salic Law.
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
Princess Anne has spoken about Queen Camilla in a new documentary. The 73-year-old royal is one of several commenters in the 90-minute film—Charles III: The Coronation—which gives a behind the ...
Last year, Princess Anne was crowned the hardest-working royal for the fourth year in a row. Even despite her horse-related incident, which left her with a concussion in June 2024, the princess ...
The Longitude Act 1714 (13 Ann. c. 14), also known as the Discovery of Longitude at Sea Act 1713, was an act of Parliament of Great Britain passed in July 1714 at the end of the reign of Queen Anne. It established the Board of Longitude and offered monetary rewards ( Longitude rewards ) for anyone who could find a simple and practical method ...