Historical faces of England in dolls

Anne (1665 - 1714), Queen of England and Scotland since 1702, since 1707 - the first monarch of a legally unified Great Britain, from the Stuart dynasty, daughter of the Duke of York (future Catholic King James II). Like her older sister Maria II, Anna did not convert to Catholicism, was married to a Protestant prince (George of Denmark) and enjoyed the sympathy of Protestants who opposed her father.
After the Glorious Revolution of 1688, which overthrew Jacob and deprived of the right to the throne of his newborn son, the Prince of Wales, according to the Bill of Rights, Anna became the heir to her older sister Mary and her husband William III of Orange in case they did not leave children.
Since the marriage of Mary and Wilhelm turned out to be childless, after the death of William III, in 1702, Anna ascended the throne. The reign of Anna is characterized by a weakening of the role of the monarch and the strengthening of ministers. This was due to the queen's poor health and dependent nature, as well as the general tendency to limit royal power.
Under Anna, measures were taken to finally eliminate the independence of Scotland. In the conditions of the war between England and France, and also taking into account the support of France of the pretender to the English throne, the son of James II, who was popular in Scotland, the "Act of Union" was prepared, providing for the unification of England and Scotland into a state called Great Britain. On May 1, 1707, England and Scotland as states ceased to exist legally, and the history of Great Britain began.
Since all of Anna's children died, the Protestant line of the House of Stuarts was suppressed on Anna and her father or her Catholic brother could freely re-seize the throne. Under these conditions, the Act of Succession to the throne (1701) was adopted, according to which Catholics (or persons married to them), in principle, were removed from the order of inheritance of the English and Scottish crowns, and the granddaughter of Jacob I, Sophia of Hanover, became the heir to the throne after Anna. then her eldest son, Elector of Hanover, George I.