Den britiske kongefamilie: monarker og Buckingham Palace

There have been 12 monarchs of Great Britain and the United Kingdom. A new Kingdom of Great Britain was formed on 1 May 1707 with the merger of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which had been in personal union under the House of Stuart since 1603. In 1801, Great Britain merged with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. After most of Ireland left the union on 6 December 1922, its name was renamed on 12 April 1927 to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Queen Anne

Queen Anne had been queen of England, Scotland and Ireland since 8 March 1702, and so became Queen of Great Britan (6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714)

Anne was the second daughter of James, Duke of York, who became James II. Anne and her elder sister Mary received a Protestant upbringing although their father James converted to Catholicism and remarried.

In 1683 Anne married Prince George of Denmark (1653–1708). She had between 16 and 18 pregnancies but only one child survived - William, who died aged 11 of smallpox in 1700.

Anne had ill-health throughout her life. In her late life she begin to be fat and lame, it was so bad that she couldn’t walk. She was died 1714 and was buried in an all most square coffin.