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On This Day In Royal History . 1 August 1714 . Queen Anne died aged 49 . . ◼ Anne was plagued by ill health throughout her life. From her thirties onwards, she grew increasingly lame & obese. . ◼ Anne was unable to walk between January & July 1713. At Christmas, she was feverish, & lay unconscious for hours, which led to rumours of her impending death. She recovered, but was seriously ill again in March. . ◼ On 27 July 1714, during Parliament’s summer recess, she dismissed Harley as Lord Treasurer. Despite failing health, which her doctors blamed on the emotional strain of matters of state, she attended two late-night cabinet meetings that failed to determine Harley’s successor. A third meeting was cancelled when she became too ill to attend. She was rendered unable to speak by a stroke on 30 July 1714, the anniversary of her son Gloucester’s death, & on the advice of the Privy Council handed the treasurer’s staff of office to Whig grandee Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury. . ◼ She died at around 7:30 a.m. on 1 August 1714. John Arbuthnot, one of her doctors, thought her death was a release from a life of ill-health & tragedy; he wrote to Jonathan Swift, “I believe sleep was never more welcome to a weary traveller than death was to her.” . ◼ Anne was buried beside her husband & children in the Henry VII chapel on the South Aisle of Westminster Abbey on 24 August. . ◼ Despite seventeen pregnancies by her husband, Prince George of Denmark, she died without any surviving children & was the last monarch of the House of Stuart. . ◼ Under the terms of the Act of Settlement 1701, she was succeeded by her second cousin George I of the House of Hanover, who was a descendant of the Stuarts through his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth, a daughter of James VI & I. . . . #Onthisdayinhistory #ThisDayInHistory #otd #TheYear1714 #D1Aug #QueenAnne #thequeen #RoyalHistory #Queen #HerMajesty #OnThisDay #stuarts #kensingtonpalace #London #BritishMonarch #thequeen #BuckinghamPalace #Westminster #AnneQueenofGreatBritain #QueenofGreatBritain #HouseofStuart #History  #BritishMonarchy #GodSaveTheQueen #Heritage #London #Art #RoyalArt #Portraitpainting #historyinpictures (at Kensington Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSCneLGsHvl/?utm_medium=tumblr

On This Day In Royal History . 1 August 1714 . Queen Anne died aged 49 . . ◼ Anne was plagued by ill health throughout her life. From her thirties onwards, she grew increasingly lame & obese. . ◼ Anne was unable to walk between January & July 1713. At Christmas, she was feverish, & lay unconscious for hours, which led to rumours of her impending death. She recovered, but was seriously ill again in March. . ◼ On 27 July 1714, during Parliament’s summer recess, she dismissed Harley as Lord Treasurer. Despite failing health, which her doctors blamed on the emotional strain of matters of state, she attended two late-night cabinet meetings that failed to determine Harley’s successor. A third meeting was cancelled when she became too ill to attend. She was rendered unable to speak by a stroke on 30 July 1714, the anniversary of her son Gloucester’s death, & on the advice of the Privy Council handed the treasurer’s staff of office to Whig grandee Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury. . ◼ She died at around 7:30 a.m. on 1 August 1714. John Arbuthnot, one of her doctors, thought her death was a release from a life of ill-health & tragedy; he wrote to Jonathan Swift, “I believe sleep was never more welcome to a weary traveller than death was to her.” . ◼ Anne was buried beside her husband & children in the Henry VII chapel on the South Aisle of Westminster Abbey on 24 August. . ◼ Despite seventeen pregnancies by her husband, Prince George of Denmark, she died without any surviving children & was the last monarch of the House of Stuart. . ◼ Under the terms of the Act of Settlement 1701, she was succeeded by her second cousin George I of the House of Hanover, who was a descendant of the Stuarts through his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth, a daughter of James VI & I. . . . #Onthisdayinhistory #ThisDayInHistory #otd #TheYear1714 #D1Aug #QueenAnne #thequeen #RoyalHistory #Queen #HerMajesty #OnThisDay #stuarts #kensingtonpalace #London #BritishMonarch #thequeen #BuckinghamPalace #Westminster #AnneQueenofGreatBritain #QueenofGreatBritain #HouseofStuart #History  #BritishMonarchy #GodSaveTheQueen #Heritage #London #Art #RoyalArt #Portrait #RoyalCollection (at Kensington Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDXFBMOjW5P/?igshid=mqtfwds6qxoi

William IV . (b. 21 August 1765 – d. 20 June 1837) . William was the third son of George III & Queen Charlotte. He succeeded his elder brother George IV, becoming the last king & penultimate monarch of Britain’s House of Hanover. . During his career in the Royal Navy he served in New York during the American War of Independence, making him the only member of the British royal family to visit America up to & through the American Revolution. . William ceased his active service in the Royal Navy in 1790. When Britain declared war on France in 1793, he was anxious to serve his country & expected a command, but was not given a ship. He did not lose hope of being appointed to an active post. In 1798 he was made an admiral, but the rank was purely nominal. . In 1813, he came nearest to any actual fighting, when he visited the British troops fighting in the Low Countries. Watching the bombardment of Antwerp from a church steeple, he came under fire, & a bullet pierced his coat. . From 1791 William lived with an Irish actress, Dorothea Bland, better known by her stage name, Mrs Jordan. The couple had ten illegitimate children—five sons & five daughters—nine of whom were named after William’s siblings; each was given the surname “FitzClarence”. Their affair lasted for twenty years before ending in 1811. On 11 July 1818 at Kew Palace, William 27 years her senior, married Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen. William’s marriage, which lasted almost twenty years until his death, was a happy one. The couple had two short-lived daughters & Adelaide suffered three miscarriages. . Aged 64, he was the oldest person yet to assume the British throne. He refused, to celebrate the coronation in the expensive way his brother had—the 1821 coronation had cost £240,000. At William’s instructions, the Privy Council budgeted less than £30,000 for the coronation. . Unlike his extravagant brother, William was unassuming, discouraging pomp & ceremony. William was known, especially early in his reign, to walk, unaccompanied, through London or Brighton. . . . #WilliamIV #KingWilliamIV #Theking #Monarchy #BritishMonarch (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAdigu8jRLy/?igshid=9ju0mowlkgf8

On the eve of their 70th wedding anniversary, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh celebrated the most successful marriage in British Royal history by releasing a series of glorious official images. . The portraits – marked an astonishing milestone in Her Majesty’s record-breaking lifetime of service with the unwavering support of Prince Philip by her side. . They were taken in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle by British photographer 📷 Matt Holyoak. . . . #HerMajesty #TheQueen #ElizabethII #ERII #QueenElizabethII #HouseofWindsor #British #Windsor #Monarch #Crown #BuckinghamPalace #kensingtonpalace #royalty #RoyalFamily #GreatBritain #Monarchy #Britishroyals #BritishMonarch #RoyalHistory #Majesty #BritishMonarchy #TheBritishMonarchy #royals #BritishRoyals #GodSaveTheQueen #Westminster #Balmoral #windsorcastle #PrincePhilip #DukeofEdinburgh (at Windsor, Berkshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/B14sgznAtR0/?igshid=c9pkfw8z8vjx

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On This Day In History . 21st August 1930 . Princess Margaret was born. . ◼ Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, was the only sibling of Queen Elizabeth II and the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. . ◼ Margaret was born Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret Rose of York on 21 August 1930 at Glamis Castle in Scotland, her mother's ancestral home. . ▪ The registration of her birth was delayed for several days to avoid her being numbered 13 in the parish register. . ◼ At the time of her birth, she was fourth in the line of succession to the British throne. Her father was Prince Albert, Duke of York (later George VI), the second son of King George V & Queen Mary. As a grandchild of the Sovereign in the male line, Margaret Rose was styled Her Royal Highness from birth. . ◼ Her mother was Elizabeth, Duchess of York, the youngest daughter of the 14th Earl and the Countess of Strathmore & Kinghorne. The Duchess of York (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) originally wanted the names Ann Margaret, as she explained to Queen Mary in a letter: "I am very anxious to call her Ann Margaret, as I think Ann of York sounds pretty, & Elizabeth and Ann go so well together." . ▪ King George V disliked the name Ann, but approved of the alternative "Margaret Rose". . .my, . #OnThisDayInHistory #OnThisDay #thisdayinhistory #d21Aug #TheYear1930 #PrincessMargaret #Royalty #britishroyalfamily #BritishRoyals #Glamiscastle #Scotland #CountessofSnowdon #BritishMonarch #RoyalFamily #HouseofWindsor #Royal #Princess #QueenElizabeth #TheQueen #HerMajesty #buckinghampalace #GodSavetheQueen #QueenElizabeth #QueenMother #RoyalHistory #Instahistory (at Glamis Castle) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1cHs1jAZMy/?igshid=ewfb22qayglx