However, despite her outwardly placid appearance, Anne was determined, and with experience, made a success of her position, becoming well liked by her employers.

All three Brontë sisters worked as governesses or teachers, and all experienced problems controlling their charges, gaining support from their employers, and coping with homesickness — but Anne was the only one who persevered and made a success of her work.

In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

At the time, the surrounding areas were woods which made up part of Anne Boleyn's hunting grounds.

The dukedom was created in 1702 by Queen Anne ; John Churchill, whose wife was a favourite of the queen, had earlier been made Lord Churchill of Eyemouth in the Scottish peerage ( 1682 ), which became extinct with his death, and Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ) by King William III.

Anne of Brittany, Queen consort of Louis XII often copied Isabella, who had a fashion doll made in her likeness.

It is thought that Leonardo never made a painting from it, the closest similarity being to The Virgin and Child with St. Anne in the Louvre.

Both William and Anne appointed and dismissed Cabinet members, attended meetings, made decisions, and followed up on actions.

Richard and his wife Anne endowed King's College and Queens ' College, Cambridge, and made grants to the church.

* 1532 – Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.

Massachusetts militia made repeated attempts to capture the Capital Port Royal, Acadia, but it required a major naval expedition authorized by Queen Anne to achieve the Conquest of Acadia in 1710.

His brother Jean Bernadotte ( Pau, 1754 – Pau, 8 August 1813 ) was eventually made 1st Baron Bernadotte and married Marie Anne Charlotte de Saint-Paul.

Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the start of the English Reformation.

Anne made a good impression in the Netherlands with her manners and studiousness, Margaret reported that she was well spoken and pleasant for her young age (" son josne eaige ").

Biographer Anne Chambers points out that despite hints at these facts in certain state documents, allegations such as these were frequently made against women who acted in a manner contrary to the social norms of the day.

The book was made into a 1986 film with Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins and also into a play and a BBC radio drama.

Anne of the Thousand Days is a 1969 costume drama made by Hal Wallis Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures.

Around 1671, Anne first made the acquaintance of Sarah Jennings, who later became her close friend and one of her most influential advisors.

Nevertheless, Anne was considered gentle, virtuous, and docile, qualities that made her a suitable candidate for Henry.

The wedding of Anne Neville and Richard, Duke of Gloucester ( subsequently Richard III of England ) took place on 12 July 1472, at Westminster Abbey, and they made their marital home in the familiar surroundings of Middleham Castle, Richard having been appointed Governor of the North on the king's behalf.

On 28 July 1589, the English spy Thomas Fowler reported that Anne was " so far in love with the King's Majesty as it were death to her to have it broken off and hath made good proof divers ways of her affection which his Majestie is apt in no way to requite.

Five days later, Anne made her state entry into Edinburgh in a solid silver coach brought over from Denmark, James riding alongside on horseback.

The papacy itself was never quite sure where Anne stood ; in 1612, Pope Paul V advised a nuncio: " Not considering the inconstancy of that Queen and the many changes she had made in religious matters and that even if it might be true that she might be a Catholic, one should not take on oneself any judgement.

There is no evidence that Anne of Cleves deliberately made herself unattractive to Henry ; he annulled their marriage because he felt he had been misled about her appearance.

Her parents, pious Roman Catholics, christened her Mary Anne Elizabeth Magdalene Steichen.

Roger Williams had recently been thrown out, and Anne Hutchinson and her Antinomians were slugging it out with the powers-that-be.

Hand her a chair and she would say, `` Why, it's a nice imitation of those Queen Anne chairs I inherited from Grandmother Delancy ''.

Little Anne rapidly outdistanced her mother in recovery.

Robbie and Beryl tried their best to persuade her to come and stay with them, and Anne and I have told her she's more than welcome here, but I think she feels that she might be an imposition, especially as long as our Rosie is still in high school.

Absent-minded, subject to unexplained tears Jubal would have bet his life that if Anne were to witness the Second Coming, she would memorize date, time, personae, events, and barometric pressure without batting her calm blue eyes.

Athena had an " androgynous compromise " that allowed her traits and what she stood for to be attributed to male and female rulers alike over the course of history ( such as Marie de ' Medici, Anne of Austria, Christina of Sweden, and Catherine the Great ).

The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Brontë lived most of her life with her family at the parish of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors.

Anne, the youngest member of the Brontë children, was born on 17 January 1820, at 74 Market Street in Thornton where her father was curate and she was baptised there on 25 March 1820.

Anne was barely a year old when her mother became ill of what is believed to have been uterine cancer.

There was little affection between her and the older children, but Anne, according to tradition, was her favourite.

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

" Anne, dear gentle Anne was quite different in appearance from the others, and she was her aunt's favourite.

Anne and Charlotte do not appear to have been close while at Roe Head ( Charlotte's letters almost never mention her ) but Charlotte was concerned about her sister's health.

Charlotte wrote to her father who took Anne home where she remained while she recovered.

If Anne formed an attachment to Weightman it does not imply that he was attracted to her.

Nor does it imply that Anne believed him to be interested in her.

Anne would have seen Weightman on her holidays at home, particularly during summer 1842 when her sisters were away.

Anne expressed her grief for his death in her poem " I will not mourn thee, lovely one ", in which she called him " our darling ".