Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion (102 page)

Queen Mary II.

King William III.

The Duke of Gloucester with his friend Benjamin Bathurst junior. This mezzotint portrait gives some indication of Gloucester’s oversized head, caused by hydrocephalus.

Queen Anne, by Edmund Lilly. As this portrait shows, by the time she came to the throne, Anne was alarmingly overweight.

Anne’s first Lord Treasurer, Sidney Godolphin.

The Duke of Marlborough.

Double portrait of Queen Anne and her much-loved husband Prince George, 1706.

Print of Kensington Palace, showing the gardens which gave Anne such pleasure.

Tapestry showing the French Marshal Tallard surrendering his baton to the Duke of Marlborough after the Battle of Blenheim in August 1704.

Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford.

Anne’s distant cousin and heiress presumptive, Sophia of Hanover, with whom Anne’s relations were often tense.

Portrait believed to be of Abigail Masham.

Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke.

Anne’s half-brother, James Francis Edward Stuart, known as the Pretender.