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  Mary II of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary II (30 April 1662–28 December 1694) reigned as Queen of England and Ireland from 13 February 1689 until her death, and as Queen of Scotland (technically as Mary II of Scotland) from 11 April 1689 until her death.
Mary, who was born in London, was the eldest daughter of the Duke of York the future James II of England and of his first wife, the Lady Anne Hyde.
Mary's uncle was King Charles II; her maternal grandfather, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, served for a lengthy period as Charles's chief advisor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_II_of_England   (1547 words)

  
 Mary I of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary was crowned as Queen of Scots in the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle on September 9, 1543.
Mary, being a devout Roman Catholic, was regarded with suspicion by many of her subjects as well as by Elizabeth I of England, her father's cousin and the monarch of the neighbouring Protestant country.
Mary argued that her handwriting was not difficult to imitate, and it has frequently been suggested either that the letters are complete forgeries, that incriminating passages were inserted before the inquiry, or that the letters were written to Bothwell by some other person.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_I_of_Scotland   (4123 words)

  
 Mary II of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Mary II (30 April 1662–28 December 1694) reigned as Queen of England and Ireland from 13 February 1689 until her death, and as Queen of Scotland from 11 April 1689 until her death.
Mary, who was born in London, was the eldest daughter of the Duke of York (the future James II) and of his first wife, the Lady Anne Hyde.
At first, Charles II opposed the alliance with a Dutch ruler — he preferred that Mary marry the heir to the French Throne, the Dauphin Louis — but afterwards approved, as a coalition with the Dutch became more politically favourable.
www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Mary_II_of_England   (1529 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Mary II
Mary II (1662-94), queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1689-94), born in London.
Although her father was a convert to Roman Catholicism, Mary was brought up as a Protestant and was married at the age of 15 to the Dutch Protestant prince William of Orange.
Mary governed as regent while William was campaigning in Ireland (1690-91) and on the Continent (1692-94), but for the most part she simply carried out policies formulated by her husband.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761556425/Mary_II.html   (170 words)

  
 James II of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James II of England and VII of Scotland (14 October 1633–16 September 1701) became King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 6 February 1685.
Charles II was recognised by the Parliaments of Scotland and Ireland, and was crowned at Scone, in Scotland, in 1651.
(Mary II had died in 1694.) The Act of Settlement 1701 provided that, if the line of succession established in the Bill of Rights were to be extinguished, then the Crown would go to a distant German cousin, Sophia, Electress of Hanover, and to her Protestant heirs.
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 MARY II. - LoveToKnow Article on MARY II.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Although Mary never entirely lost her affection for her father the wife prevailed over the daughter; and after the birth of her half-brother, the prince of Wales, in 1688, she regarded the dethronement of James as inevitable.
William and Mary were together proclaimed king and queen of England, and afterwards of Scotland, and were crowned on the 11th of April 1689.
Mary was a woman of a remarkably modest and retiring disposition, whose outstanding virtue was perhaps her unswerving loyalty to William.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MARY_II_.htm   (1228 words)

  
 Mary II, England (Royals)
Mary II Mary II belonged to the House of Stuart.
Mary was the older of the two Protestant daughters of James II.
Mary died of smallpox in 1694 and William remained on the throne until his death in 1702, at which point the throne passed to Mary's younger sister, who became Queen Anne.
www.ohwy.com /eg/m/ma2.htm   (108 words)

  
 Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
Mary II, born in 1662, was the daughter of James II and Anne Hyde.
William III (William of Orange), born in 1650, was the son of William, Prince of Orange, and Mary Stuart (daughter of Charles I).
The reign of Mary II and William III marked the end of royal prerogative.
www.britannia.com /history/monarchs/mon51.html   (810 words)

  
 Mary II of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Mary II (April 30, 1662 - December 28, 1694), Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, was the daughter of King James II and Anne Hyde.
Mary was born in London, the daughter of the then Duke of York and his first wife, Anne Hyde (whose father, Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, was chief adviser to King Charles II.
Mary and her younger sister, Anne, were brought up in the Protestant faith of their mother.
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 History of the Monarchy > The Stewarts > Mary, Queen of Scots
The birth of Mary and Darnley's son James that summer did nothing to improve their relationship, and when Darnley was murdered at Kirk o'Field, just outside the walls of Edinburgh on 10 February 1567, people suspected that she was implicated in the crime.
Mary escaped from Lochleven in 1568, only to be defeated at the Battle of Langside, near Glasgow, on 13 May. Fleeing south, she sought shelter in England, believing that Queen Elizabeth I would support her cause, but instead she was kept in captivity in England for 19 years.
Mary was finally executed at Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire on 8 February 1587, at the age of 44.
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 Mary, II Biography / Biography of Mary, II Biography Biography
Mary II (1662-1694) was queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1689 to 1694.
Mary's lonely residence in Holland was heightened by the loss of two children in childbirth and by William's preoccupation with politics.
Mary's letters are unusually revealing of the times and of her own views: Memoirs, 1689-1693, edited by R. Doebner (1886), and Letters of Two Queens, edited by Benjamin Bathurst (1924).
www.bookrags.com /biography-mary-ii   (590 words)

  
 Queen Mary II of England
Queen Mary II of England, was wife and co-regent of William III.
Mary II was born at St. James Palace, Westminster, on April 30, 1662.
Queen Mary adhered strongly to the Protestant religion and was fiercely loyal to the Church of England.
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 Queen Mary II
Queen Mary II Double the size of the former holder of the "Blue Riband of the Atlantic" Queen Mary, Queen Mary II is the largest liner ever built.
Mary II of England (April 30, 1662 - December 28, 1694), Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, was the daughter of King James II and Anne Hyde.
The Queen Mary II, the biggest and most luxurious passenger ship ever built, was to take to the seas for the first time 25 September 2003 for a series of tests ahead of her maiden voyage in January.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/qm2.htm   (734 words)

  
 BBC - History - Mary II of Orange (1662 - 94)
Raised a Protestant, in November 1677 Mary was married to her Dutch cousin William of Orange, a champion of Protestantism in Europe.
Mary felt it her duty to side with her husband against her father and thus supported William's invasion of England in November 1688.
Mary enjoyed great popularity, but continued to be deeply troubled by her estrangement from her deposed father.
www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/mary_ii_of_orange_queen.shtml   (345 words)

  
 Mary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Mary affirms the status of women and is a beautiful symbol of our inherent, God-given dignity -- but lest the modernist feminists cluck their tongues, it must be remembered that it was through Mary's obedience to God and by the blood of her Son that she was redeemed.
Mary the mother of the Lord; Mary the wife of Cleophas or Alphaeus, who was the mother of James the bishop and apostle, and of Simon and Thaddeus, and of one Joseph; Mary Salome, wife of Zebedee, mother of John the evangelist and James; Mary Magdalene.
Mary, mother of James the Less and Joseph, wife of Alphaeus was the sister of Mary the mother of the Lord, whom John names of Cleophas, either from her father or from the family of the clan, or for some other reason.
www.kensmen.com /catholic/mary.html   (8214 words)

  
 Mary II. (1662-1694)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
At once Mary rejected proposals, advanced particularly by the Earl of Danby, that she become sole ruler to the exclusion of her husband, and on April 11, 1689, she and William were crowned joint sovereigns of England.
Mary enjoyed great popularity, and her Dutch tastes had a marked influence on English pottery, landscape gardening, and interior decoration.
Mary died of smallpox at the age of 32.
www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/QueenMary-II/QueenMary-II.html   (284 words)

  
 World Book || Mary II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Mary II Mary II (1662-1694) was the queen of England from 1689 to 1694.
Mary devoted much of her time to religious and charitable projects.
William and Mary became the rulers of England in 1689.
www.worldbook.com /wc/features/queen/html/maryii.htm   (123 words)

  
 Mary II of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Mary II (April 30, 1662 - December 28, 1694), Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, was the daughter of King II of England">James II and Anne Hyde.
She would become the wife of III of England">William of Orange, and together they ruled from February 13, 1689 until Mary's death on December 28, 1694; their reign is usually known as that of "William and Mary".
Mary was born in London, the daughter of the then Duke of York and his first wife, Anne Hyde (whose father, Edward Hyde[?], Earl of Clarendon[?], was chief adviser to King II of England">Charles II.
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 History of the Monarchy > The Stuarts > Mary II and William III
The exclusion of James II and his heirs was extended to exclude all Catholics from the throne, since 'it hath been found by experience that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this protestant kingdom to be governed by a papist prince'.
The Bill of Rights had established the succession with the heirs of Mary II, Anne and William III in that order, but by 1700 Mary had died childless, Anne's only surviving child (out of 17 children), the Duke of Gloucester, had died at the age of 11 and William was dying.
Mary had died of smallpox in 1694, aged 32, and without children.
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 Royalty.nu - Royal History - The Stuarts - Queen Mary II and King William III
Mary II was the daughter of King James II of England (James VII of Scotland) by his first wife, Anne Hyde.
Queen Mary II died in 1694 and King William III died in 1702.
Mary II, Queen of England by Hester Chapman.
www.royalty.nu /Europe/England/Stuart/MaryII.html   (511 words)

  
 Queen Mary 2 - An introduction to the new liner
As all those folk born in the years immediately after World War II have begun to reach middle age with spare cash and the time to spend it and bookings to the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and Alaska have soared.
A retired Queen Elizabeth 2 and the first Queen Mary (both offering hotel accommodation with conference and exhibition attractions as part of the new Queensway Bay entertainment and shopping complex) could prove an attractive lure in the combined US $195 billion a year cruise, meeting and conference and vacation, tourism, resort markets.
We're probably still a few years away from a live Queen Mary 2 webcam but in the meantime you can enjoy a view from the bridge of the 109,000 ton P&O Grand Princess (left) via its 180° azimuthing webcam or even the three webcams aboard the 137,300 ton Voyager of the Seas (right).
www.nzmaritime.co.nz /qm2   (865 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Mary II, 1662–94, queen of England (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Mary II 1662–94, queen of England, wife of William III.
The daughter of James II by his first wife, Anne Hyde, she was brought up a Protestant despite her father's adoption of Roman Catholicism.
Although she was relatively popular with the Dutch and English peoples, she led an unhappy life because of the political conflicts between her husband, her father, and her sister Anne.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Mary2.html   (284 words)

  
 Glorious Revolution. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
in English history, the events of 1688–89 that resulted in the deposition of James II and the accession of William III and Mary II to the English throne.
The restoration of Charles II in 1660 was met with misgivings by many Englishmen who suspected the Stuarts of Roman Catholic and absolutist leanings.
Charles II increased this distrust by not being responsive to Parliament, by his toleration of Catholic dissent, and by favoring alliances with Catholic powers in Europe.
www.bartleby.com /65/gl/Glorious.html   (450 words)

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