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| | Queen Mary II |
 | | Mary II, Queen of England and wife of King William III, elder daughter of James, Duke of York, afterwards King James II, by his first wife, Anne, daughter of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, was born in London on the 30th of April 1662. |
 | | She was educated as a Protestant, and as it was probable that she would succeed to the English throne after the deaths of her uncle, King Charles II, and her father, the choice of a husband for her was a political event of high importance. |
 | | In these times of danger, however, she acted when necessary with courage and promptitude, as when in 1690 she directed the arrest of her uncle Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon; but she was constantly anxious for William's safety, and unable to trust many of her advisers. |
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