Death of Queen Anne

Queen Anne, studio of John Closterman, circa 1702.

She was born on 6 February 1662 and was crowned Queen Anne of the three separate Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland on 23 April 1702. Following the political union of England and Scotland in 1707, she reigned as the Queen of Great Britain and also the Queen of Ireland. Her only surviving child, Prince William, had died aged 11 on 30 July 1700 and Anne, the last of the Stuart dynasty, died on 1 August 1714 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, London.