1665 - 1714 • The 1st Monarch of Great Britain

"We’re bought and sold for English Gold, such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation"

Burns on the Anglo-Scots Union 1707

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By the time Anne succeeded William III to the throne she was a virtual invalid, and had to be carried to her coronation in an open sedan chair with a low back to permit her train to flow. Her reign was marked by many triumphs, including the Acts of the Union, when England and Scotland were united into a single kingdom called Great Britain, with one parliament, on May 1st, 1707. A constitutional masterstroke that would make both countries stronger and richer.

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Anne, on behalf of a grateful nation, granted Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, Woodstock manor and a sum of £240,000 to build a house as a showcase to his famous victory. Blenheim was the 1st significant victory by a British army in Europe for nearly 300 years - since Agincourt. Later, it became the birth place and ancestral home to Sir Winston Churchill.

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King William thinks all, Queen Mary talks all,

Prince George drinks all and Princess Anne eats all.

Anon, shortly after The Glorious Revolution of 1688.

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