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An image illustrating the family tree of the Stuarts (sometimes spelled Stewart or Steuart) a ruling dynasty of Scotland from 1371 and of England from 1603, from a personal union of crowns in the United Kingdom until the establishment of Great Britain and the passage of the British crown in 1714 to the House of Hanover.
On This Day In Royal History . 1 August 1714 . Queen Anne died aged 49 . . ◼ Anne was plagued by ill health throughout her life. From her thirties onwards, she grew increasingly lame & obese. . ◼ Anne was unable to walk between January & July 1713. At Christmas, she was feverish, & lay unconscious for hours, which led to rumours of her impending death. She recovered, but was seriously ill again in March. . ◼ On 27 July 1714, during Parliament’s summer recess, she dismissed Harley as Lord Treasurer. Despite failing health, which her doctors blamed on the emotional strain of matters of state, she attended two late-night cabinet meetings that failed to determine Harley’s successor. A third meeting was cancelled when she became too ill to attend. She was rendered unable to speak by a stroke on 30 July 1714, the anniversary of her son Gloucester’s death, & on the advice of the Privy Council handed the treasurer’s staff of office to Whig grandee Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury. . ◼ She died at around 7:30 a.m. on 1 August 1714. John Arbuthnot, one of her doctors, thought her death was a release from a life of ill-health & tragedy; he wrote to Jonathan Swift, “I believe sleep was never more welcome to a weary traveller than death was to her.” . ◼ Anne was buried beside her husband & children in the Henry VII chapel on the South Aisle of Westminster Abbey on 24 August. . ◼ Despite seventeen pregnancies by her husband, Prince George of Denmark, she died without any surviving children & was the last monarch of the House of Stuart. . ◼ Under the terms of the Act of Settlement 1701, she was succeeded by her second cousin George I of the House of Hanover, who was a descendant of the Stuarts through his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth, a daughter of James VI & I. . . . #Onthisdayinhistory #ThisDayInHistory #otd #TheYear1714 #D1Aug #QueenAnne #thequeen #RoyalHistory #Queen #HerMajesty #OnThisDay #stuarts #kensingtonpalace #London #BritishMonarch #thequeen #BuckinghamPalace #Westminster #AnneQueenofGreatBritain #QueenofGreatBritain #HouseofStuart #History #BritishMonarchy #GodSaveTheQueen #Heritage #London #Art #RoyalArt #Portraitpainting #historyinpictures (at Kensington Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSCneLGsHvl/?utm_medium=tumblr
The Royal House of Stuart
The Stuart royal line (originally spelt Stewart) was founded in Scotland when Robert II took the throne in 1371. James VI of Scotland (in England known as James I) then unified the Scottish and English crowns following the death of Elizabeth I of England in 1603. The Stuarts went on to rule over both kingdoms until the death of Queen Anne in 1714.
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On This Day In History . 23 April 1702 . Queen Anne’s coronation . . ◼ The Queen was so immobile, due to gout and rheumatism, that on 23 April 1702 Queen Anne, then 37, was unable to walk to her own coronation. . ▪ Instead she had to be carried into Westminster Abbey by the Yeomen of the Guard in an open sedan chair with a low back over which her 6yd (5.5m) train could pass to the Duchess of Somerset and other ladies walking behind her. . ◼ She was dressed in crimson velvet over a golden robe richly embroidered with jewels and a petticoat with bands of gold and silver lace between rows of diamonds, while more diamonds blazed in the wig covering her hair. . ◼ Despite her infirmities the Queen managed to dismount from the chair and walk into the Abbey for the five-hour service, during which she was carried in her chair when necessary and crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Tenison, with a specially made crown flaming with massive diamonds. . ▪ She then left the Abbey on foot, ‘with obliging looks and bows to all that saluted her’, ahead of the coronation banquet in Westminster Hall. . . . #Coronation #QueenAnne #QueenofGreatBritain #HouseofStuart #History #RoyaltyinArt #Portrait #BritishMonarchy #OnThisDayInHistory #thisdayinhistory #theyear1702 #d23apr #otd #OnThisDay #RoyalHistory #RoyalFamily #Royalty #Royals #BritishRoyals #GodSaveTheQueen #Westminster #heritage #Crownjewels #Westminsterabbey #London #historyinpictures #Portraitpainting #TheQueen #monarchy (at Westminster Abbey) https://www.instagram.com/p/COBmApvjQfX/?igshid=1j7ibvh4b3xa6
On This Day In History . 22 June 1606 . Sophia of England was born . . ◼ Sophia Stuart was the fourth daughter and seventh and final child of King James VI and I by his wife Anne of Denmark. . ◼ She was born at Greenwich Palace on 22 June 1606 and died there the next day. . ◼ She was buried at Westminster Abbey in a monument designed by Maximilian Colt that resembles a stone cradle. . ◼ She was likely named for her maternal grandmother, Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. . . . #onthisdayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #theyear1606 #d22jun #SophiaofEngland #HouseofStuart #Stuarts #History #kingjamesI #JamesI #JamesIofEngland #JamesVIofScotland #AnneofDenmark #Britishmonarchy #historyfacts #Royalhistory #westminsterabbey #Greenwich #historyinpictures #otd #onthisday #Portraitpainting #kingandqueen #Greenwichpalace #Royalty #Royals #Monarchy #Princess #PrincessSophia (at Greenwich) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQbMGqdjYoE/?utm_medium=tumblr
On this day in royal history . 2 March 1619 . Anne of Denmark died . 👑 Anne of Denmark was Queen consort of Scotland, England, & Ireland as the wife of James VI and I. . ◼ By late 1617, Anne’s bouts of illness had become debilitating. John Chamberlain recorded: “The Queen continues still ill disposed & though she would fain lay all her infirmities upon the gout yet most of her physicians fear a further inconvenience of an ill habit or disposition through her whole body.” In January 1619, royal physician Sir Theodore de Mayerne instructed Anne to saw wood to improve her blood flow, but the exertion served to make her worse. James visited Anne only three times during her last illness, though Prince Charles often slept in the adjoining bedroom at Hampton Court Palace & was at her bedside during her last hours, when she had lost her sight. With her until the end was her personal maid, Anna Roos, who had arrived with her from Denmark in 1590. . Queen Anne died aged 44 on 2 March 1619, of a dangerous form of dropsy. . ◼ Despite his neglect of Anne, James was emotionally affected by her death. He did not visit her during her dying days or attend her funeral, being himself sick, the symptoms, according to Sir Theodore de Mayerne, including “fainting, sighing, dread, incredible sadness …”. The inquest discovered Anne to be “much wasted within, specially her liver”. After a prolonged delay, she was buried in King Henry’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey, on 13 May 1619. The catafalque, designed by Maximilian Colt, placed over her grave was destroyed during the civil war. . 👑 James turned to verse to pay his respects; . ‘So did my Queen from hence her court remove . And left off earth to be enthroned above. . She’s changed, not dead, for sure no good prince dies, . But, as the sun, sets, only for to rise’. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1619 #AnneofDenmark #d2mar #QueenConsort #Queen #HouseofOldenburg #Royalty #HouseofStuart #Monarchy #EnglishMonarchy #onthisday #Royals #stuarts #JamesI #kingjames #queenanne #Queen #Britishhistory #BritishMonarchy #History #JamesVI&I #OTD #OnThisDay #RoyalHistory #RoyalFamily (at Hampton Court Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/CL7qEDHBHaq/?igshid=1w0l2ugekwsbx
On This Day In Royal History . 1 August 1714 . Queen Anne died aged 49 . . ◼ Anne was plagued by ill health throughout her life. From her thirties onwards, she grew increasingly lame & obese. . ◼ Anne was unable to walk between January & July 1713. At Christmas, she was feverish, & lay unconscious for hours, which led to rumours of her impending death. She recovered, but was seriously ill again in March. . ◼ On 27 July 1714, during Parliament’s summer recess, she dismissed Harley as Lord Treasurer. Despite failing health, which her doctors blamed on the emotional strain of matters of state, she attended two late-night cabinet meetings that failed to determine Harley’s successor. A third meeting was cancelled when she became too ill to attend. She was rendered unable to speak by a stroke on 30 July 1714, the anniversary of her son Gloucester’s death, & on the advice of the Privy Council handed the treasurer’s staff of office to Whig grandee Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury. . ◼ She died at around 7:30 a.m. on 1 August 1714. John Arbuthnot, one of her doctors, thought her death was a release from a life of ill-health & tragedy; he wrote to Jonathan Swift, “I believe sleep was never more welcome to a weary traveller than death was to her.” . ◼ Anne was buried beside her husband & children in the Henry VII chapel on the South Aisle of Westminster Abbey on 24 August. . ◼ Despite seventeen pregnancies by her husband, Prince George of Denmark, she died without any surviving children & was the last monarch of the House of Stuart. . ◼ Under the terms of the Act of Settlement 1701, she was succeeded by her second cousin George I of the House of Hanover, who was a descendant of the Stuarts through his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth, a daughter of James VI & I. . . . #Onthisdayinhistory #ThisDayInHistory #otd #TheYear1714 #D1Aug #QueenAnne #thequeen #RoyalHistory #Queen #HerMajesty #OnThisDay #stuarts #kensingtonpalace #London #BritishMonarch #thequeen #BuckinghamPalace #Westminster #AnneQueenofGreatBritain #QueenofGreatBritain #HouseofStuart #History #BritishMonarchy #GodSaveTheQueen #Heritage #London #Art #RoyalArt #Portrait #RoyalCollection (at Kensington Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDXFBMOjW5P/?igshid=mqtfwds6qxoi
On This Day In Royal History . 2 March 1316 . King Robert II of Scotland was born . . ◼ Robert was a grandson of Robert Bruce, & the first in the House of Stewart dynasty. The name came from his ancestor Walter Stewart who was appointed High Steward of Scotland by David I. He had escaped following the defeat of David II at Halidon Hill in 1333 & took over as Guardian of Scotland while David was in exile in France. . ◼ He was a mature man of 54 when he succeeded to the throne on the death of David, but he was weak king & did not rule well over the nobles who were critical of him leading to a loss of prestige of the crown. His heir John took over the rule to attempt to restore law & order. . ◼ A truce with England in 1384 was short lived, & the border wars continued. In 1388 the Scots under James Douglas won a victory at Otterburn near Newcastle over Henry Percy ‘Hotspur’ of Northumberland. . ◼ Robert married Elizabeth Mure in 1336. From this union, ten children reached adulthood. . ◼ In 1355, Robert married his second wife Euphemia de Ross. They had four children. . ▪ He was succeeded by his son John who took the name Robert III. . ◼ He died in 1390, at Dundonald Castle, Ayrshire, aged 74 years. . . . #onthisdayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #theyear1316 #d2mar #kingOfScots #kingofscotland #HouseofStewart #Stuart #Stuarts #HouseofStuart #RoyalHistory #OnThisDay #Heritage #Scotland #otd #ScottishMonarchy #RobertII #RobertIIofScotland #History #BritishMonarchy #otd #HistoricScotland #monarchy #OnThisDay #MedievalHistory (at Paisley Abbey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CL7o2PRDsef/?igshid=jtniqmo2j4oo
