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Anne (1702-14) was the second daughter of King James, but Protestant. Events in her reign included the War of Spanish Succession, Marlborough\'s victories at Blenheim, Ramilies, Oudenarde and Malplaquet, and the replacement of the Tories with a Whig government in 1703. In 1707, she presided over the union of the parliaments of Scotland and England into the parliament of Great Britain - which first sat on 1 May 1707. The Scots had, controversially, been forced into the union through a variety of English measures and legislation (dating from the early 1700s) but received, in return, the \'Equivalent\' - effectively a bribe, of £398,085. Anne had seventeen children during her life - not one survived to succeed her.
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