Though Carmichael-Smyth was from a distinguished Scottish military family, Anne's grandmother went to extreme lengths to prevent their marriage ; surviving family letters state that she wanted a better match for her granddaughter.

Tradition has it that Anne's daughter, Elizabeth I was named after her maternal grandmother.

Other characters introduced are some of Anne's new pupils, such as Paul Irving, an American boy living with his grandmother in Avonlea while his widower father works in the States.

Following her death in 1578, Anne Stanley's grandmother, Margaret Stanley, Countess of Derby, assumed the senior position among the descendants of Mary Tudor in terms of inheritance of the rights to the English crown upon the death of her cousin Elizabeth I. Margaret died in 1596, and, her son and Anne's father Ferdinando having predeceased her, Anne inherited her claims.

However, Mary II died childless in 1694, after which William III did not remarry, and Princess Anne's last surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, died six years later, after which it was unlikely she would have any more children due to her age and the large number of miscarriages she had previously suffered.

The 18th-century author Charles Johnson claimed that Teach was for some time a sailor operating from Jamaica on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War, and that " he had often distinguished himself for his uncommon boldness and personal courage ".

Bostock, who had been held aboard Queen Anne's Revenge, was returned unharmed to Margaret and was allowed to leave with his crew.

Anne's first husband had been Edward of Westminster, son of Henry VI, who died at Tewkesbury.

Technically, this was not an act of treason, as More had written to Henry acknowledging Anne's queenship and expressing his desire for the King's happiness and the new Queen's health.

Various are the opinions of scholars and historians as to how deep Anne's commitment to the Reformation was, how much was she perhaps only personally ambitious, and how much she had to do with Henry's defiance of Papal power.

As King William and Queen Mary had no children, it looked as though Anne's son would eventually inherit the crown.

Most historians believe that he later used her ' bad ' appearance and incapability in bed as excuses, saying how he felt he had been misled, for everyone had praised Anne's attractions: " She is nothing so fair as she hath been reported ," he complained.

When Anne's health began to fail, Mary I allowed her to live at Chelsea Old Manor, where Henry's last wife, Catherine Parr, had lived after her remarriage.

Anne's father, dissatisfied with the rewards he had received for helping Edward gain the throne, compared with the favours lavished on the Woodville family, changed sides and allied himself with Margaret of Anjou, Queen consort of the ousted Lancastrian king Henry VI.

The succession of her husband's family to the British throne was still insecure, as Queen Anne's half-brother James Stuart contested the Hanoverian claim, and Queen Anne and Caroline's grandmother-in-law Dowager Electress Sophia had fallen out.

During Queen Anne's War ( 1702 to 1713 ), the British Conquest of Acadia occurred in 1710, resulting in Nova Scotia, other than Cape Breton, being officially ceded to the British by the Treaty of Utrecht including Rupert's Land, that had been conquered by France in the late 17th century ( Battle of Hudson's Bay ).

In 1602, after discovering that Anne had smuggled Beatrix Ruthven into Holyrood, James carried out a cross-examination of the entire household ; in 1603, he finally caved in to Anne's campaign and granted Beatrix Ruthven a pension of £ 200.

By late 1617, Anne's bouts of illness had become debilitating ; the letter writer John Chamberlain recorded: " The Queen continues still ill disposed and though she would fain lay all her infirmities upon the gout yet most of her physicians fear a further inconvenience of an ill habit or disposition through her whole body ".

Incurring Anne's disfavour, and caught between Tory and Whig factions, Marlborough, who had brought glory and success to Anne's reign, was forced from office and went into self-imposed exile.

Marlborough had long had doubts about the Whig policy of ' No Peace without Spain ', but he was reluctant to abandon his allies ( including the Elector of Hanover, Anne's heir presumptive ), and sided with the Whigs in opposing the peace preliminaries.

James still retained some influence, and he ordered that both Lady Churchill and Princess Anne be placed under house arrest at Anne's residence ( the Cockpit ) in the Palace of Whitehall ; both their husbands, though previously loyal to James, had switched their allegiances to William of Orange.

Well dressing was celebrated in only one or two villages in Derbyshire by the 19th century, and in Buxton it wasn't introduced until 1840, " to commemorate the beneficence of the Duke of Devonshire who, at his own expense, made arrangements for supplying the Upper Town, which had been much inconvenienced by the distance to St Anne's well on the Wye, with a fountain of excellent water within easy reach of all ".

The territories of the grand duchy, taken ( including the ancestral castle of Luxembourg ) from occupying French forces in the first stages of the fall of Napoleon, had been ceded to William by his first cousin King Frederick William III of Prussia, who was Anne's heir-general.

The future Queen Anne's claims had been deferred by Parliament until his death.

Anne's exact words at this point were, " I told her in very certain tones and terms that Pern was my world, and I could do with it what I wanted.

It is explained that Christine had been engaged to someone else all along, and Anne's friend Phil Blake had written Gilbert and told him to " try again ".

Funeral services for Mrs. Kowalski and her daughter, Christine, 11, who died of burns at the same hospital Monday, have been scheduled for 10 a.m. tomorrow in St. Anne's Catholic Church, 31978 Mound, in Warren.

Mainly because the re-publication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was prevented by Charlotte Brontë after Anne's death, she is less known than her sisters Charlotte, author of four novels including Jane Eyre, and Emily, author of Wuthering Heights.

Anne shared a room with her, they were close which may have influenced Anne's personality and religious beliefs.

In Elizabeth Gaskell's biography, Anne's father remembered her as precocious, reporting that once, when she was four years old, in reply to his question about what a child most wanted, she answered: " age and experience ".

Anne's maidservant Petra, an experienced and forthright girl, slightly older than the teen herself, offers her worldly but crass advice.

Teach captured a French merchant vessel, renamed her Queen Anne's Revenge, and equipped her with 40 guns.

Teach immediately renamed La Concorde as Queen Anne's Revenge and equipped her with 40 guns.

After Anne's death Charlotte resumed writing as a way of dealing with her grief, and Shirley which deals with the themes of industrial unrest and the role of women in society was published in October 1849.

Anne's reply, and continued gossip, seemed to confirm Mary's suspicions that the child was not her natural brother, and that her father was conspiring to secure a Catholic succession.

She was styled " The Lady Mary " rather than Princess, and her place in the line of succession was transferred to her newborn half-sister, Elizabeth, Anne's daughter.

Some British politicians attempted several times to bring Sophia to England in order to enable her to immediately assume the government in the event of Anne's death.

The essential difference between the Tudors and their predecessors, is the nationalization and integration of John Wycliffe's ideas to the Church of England, holding onto the alignment of Richard II of England and Anne of Bohemia, in which Anne's Hussite brethren were in alliance to her husband's Wycliffite countrymen against the Avignon Papacy.

Anne's early education was typical for women of her class.

She or her circle may have encouraged Anne's interest in reform, as well as in poetry and literature.

Anne's experience in France made her a devout Christian in the new tradition of Renaissance humanism.

Anne's European education ended in 1521, when her father summoned her back to England.

According to Marie Dowling " Anne tried to educate her waiting-women in scriptural piety ” and is believed to have reproved her cousin, Mary Shelton, for “ having ‘ idle poesies ’ written in her prayer book .” If Cavendish is to be believed, Anne's outrage at Wolsey may have personalized whatever philosophical defiance she brought with her from France.