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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. |
 | | During the king's absence from England the queen, assisted by a committee of the privy council, was entrusted with the duties of government, duties which she performed faithfully, but which she gladly laid down on William's return. |
 | | Mary was a woman of a remarkably modest and retiring disposition, whose outstanding virtue was perhaps her unswerving loyalty to William. |
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