Queen Anne by Anne Somerset

Queen Anne by Anne Somerset

Five years after ascending the throne in 1702, Queen Anne united England and Scotland and became the first queen of modern Great Britain. By the end of her reign, Britain had emerged as a major power; the victories won by her general, the Duke of Marlborough, had humbled France and laid the foundations for naval and colonial supremacy. But while the Queen's military was performing dazzling exploits, her own attention increasingly rested on a more intimate conflict: her passionate and tormented relationship with Sarah Churchill, the beautiful Duchess of Marlborough, whose scathing wit and personal enmity have long distorted our view of Anne.

Award-winning biographer Anne Somerset has drawn extensively on royal archives and previously unpublished material to create a riveting reassessment of a shy, overlooked monarch--one who was both shrewder and more fascinating than we knew.

Anne Somerset was born in London and received her education at King's College. The Lives and Days of King William IV, Ladies in Waiting, and Elizabeth I are among her works. Antonia Fraser was one of the historians for whom she worked as a research assistant. Somerset, the 11th Duke of Beaufort's daughter, lives in London.

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ISBN 13	9780307962881
ISBN 10	0307962881
Title	Queen Anne
Author	Anne Somerset
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Knopf Publishing Group
Year published	2013-10-15
Number of pages	621
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