About Me

Kindness. Humanism.Secular. Sceptic. History, Pre-Raphaelites, Reading, Life-Long Learning. 'Sanity Is Not Statistical'.'Fill the unforgiving minute...'.

Monday 22 April 2013

Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History - 2. Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians

Lucy Worsley presents

Nov 1688 - William of Orange lands in England with an army

Scrofula = The King's evil

Aged 32, Mary II dies of smallpox

1704 - Anne becomes Queen

Anne had 17 preganancies?

'Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough'

1714 - Queen Anne dies

George II and his son Frederick had a bad relationship