“The Age of Anne is rightly regarded as the greatest manifestation of the power of England which had till then been known,” says Winston Churchill in his History of English Speaking Peoples (396). Despite her plain and sickly disposition, Queen Anne was one of the more consequential reigning English monarchs. Her queenship saw the establishment of a united kingdom of Scotland and England as “Great Britain.” It was a neo-Augustan age of letters from the likes of Addison, Pope, Defoe, Steele, Swift, and others. It was also the era of the Royal Society, which was originally chartered under Charles II, and the work of Sir Isaac Newton proliferated. However, despite numerous efforts Anne remained childless and in order to protect the Protestant character of the kingdom, after her death the crown would pass to a distant family from the Continent: the Hanovers.
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