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Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion
Set in Scotland during the reign of Queen Anne, the duke of Argyll laments to the duke of Montrose “would she had seen a child live to comfort the kingdom”.
Princess anne of england biography books
To this Montrose responds “One might have hoped that a field so often ploughed might have yielded one good crop. In truth, I have seen healthier graveyards than that woman's womb.”
Poor Queen Anne, that’s her own observation, not mine, pregnant at one moment, in mourning at the next.
Altogether she had been expecting seventeen times in as many years, suffering numerous miscarriages; and when she did not miscarry her babies were stillborn. Two little girls did survive, only to be carried off by smallpox. William, duke of Gloucester, the only one to survive infancy, died at the age of eleven.
She also suffered acutely from ill-health and was so fat tha