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  Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
Anne, born in 1665, was the second daughter of James II and Anne Hyde.
Anne and Sarah were virtually inseparable: no king's mistress had ever wielded the power granted to the duchess, but Sarah became too confident in her position.
Anne was torn personally as well as politically by the succession question: her Stuart upbringing compelled her to choose as heir her half-brother, the Old Pretender and favorite of the Tories, but she had already elected to side with Whigs when supporting Mary and William over James II.
www.britannia.com /history/monarchs/mon52.html   (565 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | Princess Anne backs Olympic bid
Princess Anne broke with royal protocol to support the capital's attempt to host the event at a meeting of the International Olympic Committee in Mexico City.
Proposals to hold the Olympics in London are due to be debated in parliament - Princess Anne was expected to remain silent on the subject because the monarchy is obliged to be apolitical.
Princess Anne, who represented Britain in the three-day event at the Montreal Olympics in 1976 is a member of the IOC.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/2534407.stm   (446 words)

  
 ELEVENTH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
King GEORGE II of England was born in 1660 in Hanover.
Caroline of Brandenburg-Anspach Queen Consort was born in 1682.
ii. Princess Anne of England was born in 1709.
www.royalgenealogy.com /d9.htm   (37 words)

  
 English Monarchs - Kings and Queens of England - Anne, Princess Royal.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Princess Anne, the second and only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh was born on was born on 15 August, 1950 at her parents home of Clarence House, London.
Anne was the name originally chosen for Princess Margaret, by her parents, but vetoed by George V, who did not like the name.
Due to the fact that the Church of England, of whom the Queen is head, forbids the remarriage of divorcees, but the Church of Scotland does not, Anne married her second husband at Crathie Kirk, by the Queen's Balmoral estate.
www.englishmonarchs.co.uk /windsor_12.htm   (763 words)

  
 WTAworld.com - Princess Anne of England guilty under dangerous dogs law...
LONDON (AP) - Princess Anne pleaded guilty Thursday to allowing her English bull terrier to run loose and attack two children, becoming the first member of the Royal Family in modern times to be convicted of a criminal offence.
Anne pleaded guilty to the offence during a hearing at East Berkshire Magistrates Court in Slough, 30 kilometres west of London.
Princess Anne, her 47-year-old husband and her children, Zara and Peter, were ushered past massed photographers and through the entrance by security guards.
www.wtaworld.com /showthread.php?t=45915   (672 words)

  
 CNN.com - Expert: Anne's plea good decision - Nov. 21, 2002
Princess Anne's decision to plead guilty to a charge that her dog bit two children in a public park "will go down well with the public," a royal expert says.
Anne, younger sister of heir to the throne Prince Charles, was divorced from her first husband Captain Mark Phillips in 1992 and married naval officer Laurence in the same year.
Often accused of being prickly and rude, the princess is known as an enthusiastic equestrian and tireless charity worker.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/11/21/britain.princess.praise   (367 words)

  
 England Baby Names - England Names
The name died out in England in the later Middle Ages, and was revived in the 19th century, being the name of a character in Johann Strauss's opera "Die Fledermaus...
Used occasionally in England from the 17th century, probably in honor of the biblical prophet who recalled King Asa to a proper observance of religion...
Beatrice was occasionally used in England in the Middle Ages, and revived in the 19th century...
www.thinkbabynames.com /search/0/england   (378 words)

  
 Princess Anne admits guilt in trial involving her pet dog
The princess' acceptance of guilt turned the hourlong trial in the small suburban courtroom into a courteous argument over whether Judge Penelope Hewitt would exercise her right under the Dangerous Dogs Act to order the destruction of the pet, a 3-year-old English bull terrier named Dotty.
She said the princess royal, as Anne is formally known, should pay a $785 fine, $393 in compensation to the boys and court costs of $234.
The princess royal, 52, appeared in East Berkshire Magistrate's Court with her husband, Commodore Tim Laurence, 47, and her two children by her first marriage to Capt. Mark Phillips, Peter, 25, and Zara, 21.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/11/22/MN76593.DTL&type=printable   (353 words)

  
 Honduras This Week National
When Princess Anne arrived in the Villanueva neighborhood, she was greeted by the sight of dozens of children waiting in the streets for the opportunity to see her.
Carlos Paes of Olimpia and Marlon Godoy of Motagua were apprehended after police stopped and searched their car, finding two grams of cocaine under one of the seats.
Princess Anne is the daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
www.marrder.com /htw/2001apr/national.htm   (5681 words)

  
 CNN.com - Princess fined for speeding - March 13, 2001
In her letter, read out by court clerk Kim Edge, the Princess said she had been on her way to an official engagement when she was caught in a line of slow-moving traffic.
A spokeswoman for Buckingham Palace later told the Press Association: "The Princess Royal was keeping to a tight schedule for an official engagement when she was driving herself along the A417 on August 27 last year.
Five years later, the Princess, then aged 26, was fined £40 by magistrates in Derbyshire for doing 96mph in a 70mph limit on the M1.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/UK/03/13/princess.fine   (555 words)

  
 History of the Monarchy > The Stuarts > Anne
Party politics became more significant throughout Anne's reign, with Whigs (who supported limited monarchy, and whose support tended to come from religious dissenters) and Tories (who favoured strong monarchy and the religious status quo embodied in the Church of England) competing for power.
Difficulties reached a climax when England settled the succession on the Protestant Sophia of Hanover (Charles I's niece and cousin to James II), as Anne (the last of her line) had failed to produce an heir.
Until their dismissal in 1710, the political scene was dominated by Marlborough (whose wife enjoyed the influence of a 20-year friendship with the Queen) and the Lord Treasurer Godolphin, who headed a financial team mostly independent of the party factions.
www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page102.asp   (445 words)

  
 CNN.com - Richard Quest: Princess pleads guilty - Nov. 21, 2002
Princess Anne's pet left her in the doghouse, making the royal the first in modern times to be convicted of a criminal offense.
As for Princess Anne, who, let's face it, was appearing in one of her mother's own courts, Princess Anne was fined 500 pounds.
So Princess Anne is going to have to fork over 500 pounds, which probably doesn't mean much to her.
edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/11/21/otsc.quest   (457 words)

  
 Worldroots.com
She was born in Exeter during the English Civil War and was brought up in France by her mother.
In 1660 her brother, Charles II, was restored in England and in 1661 she married Philippe, Duke of Orleans, the homosexual brother of King Louis XIV, whose mistress she
She played an important part in the negotiations of the Secret Treaty of Dover between Charles II and Louis XIV, but shortly after her return she died and was rumoured to have been poisoned.
worldroots.com /brigitte/royal/bio/henrietteofenglandbio.html   (94 words)

  
 Mark Pilling Family History - pilg769 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Thomas married Anne Princess of England on 4 Feb 1494/1495 in, Greenwich, Kent, England.
Elizabeth married Thomas Boleyn [Earl of Wiltshire] in of, Blickling, Norfolk, England.
was born 29 Aug 1419 in of, Killington, Westmoreland, England.
www.eoni.com /~paf/pilling/pilg769.htm   (252 words)

  
 CNN.com - Report: Royal dog to see psychologist - Jan. 4, 2004
Princess Anne with her two English bull terriers.
Princess Anne will send her dog to an animal psychologist to avoid having it euthanized after it attacked a royal maid and fatally mauled one of Queen Elizabeth II's beloved corgis, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
Media reports had widely blamed another of Princess Anne's bull terriers, Dotty, for the corgi incident, but Buckingham Palace cleared her Tuesday and blamed Florence instead.
www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/01/04/royal.dog.ap/index.html   (337 words)

  
 CNN/SI - Olympics - Princess Anne remains silent on bribery scandal - Thursday January 28, 1999 12:25 PM
But Anne's spokeswoman said Thursday that she has decided to "await developments" and considers it inappropriate to intervene publicly now.
The March session clashes with a long-scheduled Far East tour by Anne, said her spokeswoman, speaking on customary condition of anonymity.
Anne, an IOC member since 1988, competed in the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/news/1999/01/28/anne_silent   (410 words)

  
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HRH Mary Anne Princess of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Princess of Savoy, by marriage Empress of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia
HRH Maud Princess of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Princess of Bavaria, by marriage Princess Ludwig of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
HRH Edith Princess of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Princess of Bavaria, by marriage Mrs.
members.fortunecity.com /successionlines/jacobite.html   (13517 words)

  
 Anne Arundel County, Maryland Location
Anne Arundel County was incorporated in 1650 and is named after Lady Anne of Arundell, wife of Cecilius Calvert, second Lord Baltimore.
Annapolis is the capital of the state and the county seat of Anne Arundel County.
In southern Anne Arundel County, archaeologists are working to uncover the rest of the colonial port of London Town.
www.marylandvisitorsnetwork.com /annearundel/are.html   (821 words)

  
 Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, Princess Anne
Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, Princess Anne is in Lexington to help open the art exhibit “All the Queen's Horses: The Role of the Horse in British History,” April 26 through Aug. 24 at the Kentucky Horse Park.
At the Gluck Equine Research Center, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, Princess Anne visited the laboratories of George Allen, who is researching equine herpes; Thomas Chambers, equine influenza virus; Thomas Tobin, equine protozoal myelitis; Ernest Bailey, equine gene mapping; David Powell, mare reproductive loss syndrome; and Peter Timoney, West Nile virus.
The visit by the Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, Princess Anne was coordinated by the British Consulate-General, Chicago, Ill., and the office of Kentucky Governor Paul Patton.
www.uky.edu /PR/News/Archives/2003/April2003/03-04_princess_anne.htm   (312 words)

  
 Eldrbarry's Reformation Class: Wyclif and Hus
The connection between the two was a royal wedding - the marriage of the Bohemian Princess Anne to England's Richard II.
He found a supporter in John of Gaunt (1340 -99), Duke of Lancaster who saw in him a opportunity to divert the tribute and taxation being demanded by the Papacy into England's coffers at a time when England was threatened with invasion by France.
England was torn by the civil wars called the Wars of the Roses.
www.eldrbarry.net /heidel/wyclfhus.htm   (1420 words)

  
 Queen Anne's County Court House - Centreville (HistoricQAC.org)
The Queen Anne’s County Courthouse boasts a long heritage as the oldest Maryland courthouse in continuous use.
Her Royal Highness Princess Anne of England attended the statue’s 1977 dedication.
Also on the courthouse green is the county’s war memorial wall that lists the names of each Queen Anne’s County citizen who died fighting for the country.
www.historicqac.org /sites/qaccourthouse.htm   (213 words)

  
 Fun4Kids
Lacey Anne will be a reminder that litter lessens the beauty of the city and should be tossed into trash receptacles.
Lacey Anne is a friendly sprig of Queen Anne's Lace, a wild flower that grows in abundance in the fields of Maryland.
Rosey is both red and white, because she is descended from the red rose of the Lancasters and the white rose of the Yorks.
www.annapolis.gov /info.asp?page=4872   (674 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | Princess Anne visits Coventry
Princess Anne is in Coventry on Wednesday to formally open a home for children with learning disabilities.
Children aged 4 to 19 with severe learning disabilities are cared for at the centre.
The Princess Royal will have a tour of the building before unveiling a plaque to mark its official opening.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/2887445.stm   (127 words)

  
 Prince George's County Tricentennial
Four years before Prince George's County was founded, the Church of England became the established church of the Maryland colony.
By the beginning of the eighteenth century, landowners had turned to slave labor for the operation of their tobacco plantations, and large numbers of Africans were brought to Maryland to work at the cultivation of that labor-intensive crop.
In 1706 the colonial General Assembly established five new port towns: Queen Anne, Nottingham and Mill Town on the Patuxent, Marlborough on the Western Branch of the Patuxent, and Aire at Broad Creek on the Potomac.
www.pghistory.org /PG/PG300/threhund.html   (2429 words)

  
 Maryland : History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Puritans Establish a Base -- In 1649, another group from England, the Puritans, arrived, landing first in Virginia, but on encountering religious intolerance there, they moved north to what is now Annapolis and settled at the mouth of the Severn River.
These early inhabitants called their new settlement Anne Arundel Town, after the wife of the second Lord Baltimore, proprietor of the colony of Maryland.
In 1695, the town was renamed Annapolis in honor of Princess Anne of England, and the colonial government of Maryland was moved here from St. Mary's City; it has been Maryland's capital ever since.
www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=230&catID=0230020044   (1123 words)

  
 Radio Australia - Pacific Beat - Stories - PNG: Princess Anne to present chiefs with medals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The daughter of the Queen of England, Princess Anne, is to leave Papua New Guinea on Thursday evening, after a short visit to mark PNG's 30th independence anniversary.
The Princess arrived in Port Moresby on Wednesday afternoon and was welcomed by a crowd of over 2,000 people.
Before she leaves, the Princess will present the medals of the PNG order of Logohu to several people in recognition for their contribution to Papua New Guinea's development.
www.abc.net.au /ra/pacbeat/stories/s1471159.htm   (124 words)

  
 MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
Princess Anne arrives in Gibraltar; Spain lodges formal complaint; Cruise issue: UK seeks permanent solution; Spain continues military blockade; Financial journalists invited to the Rock.
Princess Anne is scheduled to attend a number of events including visits to the new Sports Hall, Casemates Square, John Mackintosh Square, The Mount, HQBF, the Garrison Library, the Upper Rock, St Andrew’s Church and the Citizens Advice Bureau.
The visits are as follows: Duke of York, Prince Andrew (October 1993 and July 1995): the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Phillip (May 1996): the Duke of Kent (July 1998): the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and Princess Alexandra (October 1999): the Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward (August 2001).
www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=3852   (2004 words)

  
 Ken Emerson - Resophonic Steel, Slide, and Slack Key Guitar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
We started off for London in July and played in southern England, and hung around the Bath area, (beautiful) played a fun gig with Kevin Brown.
Back to central England and a gig at the Crown in Leyhill, (more aloha shirts) then some time with George and Ann in London, with another chance to play the Abbey Mills Blues Festival with the Papa George band, featuring Pete Stroud on bass from Peter Greens Splinter Group.
George, Anne and the "Cats" then took off for Bratislava, via Prague for the Dobrofestival in Trnava.
www.kenemerson.com /papa-gallery.htm   (1298 words)

  
 Princess Cruises : News: BE A "VIRTUAL" GUEST AS PRINCESS ANNE NAMES NEW P&O CRUISE SHIP, AURORA
A live webcast of the 30-minute event will take place Thursday, April 27, at 6:00 am ET/3:00 am PT, allowing "virtual" guests to join in the celebration as Her Royal Highness Princess Anne christens the 76,000-ton superliner.
The ceremony will include a full array of activities, highlighted by the traditional naming when Princess Anne will release a magnum of champagne to break on Aurora's bow.
Carrying 1,874 passengers and 850 crew, Aurora will sail from her home port of Southampton for her 14-night maiden voyage to the Mediterranean on Monday, May 1.
www.princess.com /news/article.jsp?newsArticleId=na290   (357 words)

  
 Radio Australia - News - British princess to mark PNG independence celebrations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
England's Princess Anne will be visiting Papua New Guinea during its 30th independence anniversary celebrations later this year.
PNG's prime minister, Sir Michael Somare, says the government has invited the princess to represent her mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
The Queen's private secretary, Sir Robin Janvrin, has advised the government of Princess Anne's visit to Port Moresby from September 28-29.
www.abc.net.au /ra/news/stories/s1399083.htm   (182 words)

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