Contents
Dramatis Personae
Part I
Calisto and Nyphe
The King’s Dogs
Man or Tree?
The Ruin of Winifred Wells
A Catechism
In the Ruelle
What a Good English Princess Knows About Catholics
Love
From Lady Anne of York to Mrs Mary Cornwallis
The Duke’s Dogs
From Lady Anne of York to Mrs Mary Cornwallis
Mary’s Closet
Tom Thumb, his Life and Death
The Dean of the Chapels Royal
Letters From Lady Anne of York to Mary Cornwallis, August 1676 – October 1677
Anne in Flames
Anne’s Skin
Part II
Anne’s Maternal Line
Anne Enters Into Her Closet
The Princess of Orange
The Duchess’s Secretary
The Martyrdom of Charles I
Anne and Isabella
The English Tongue, Already so Rich in Insults, Acquires Two More
Anne in her Closet, Windsor, July, 1679
At The Inn for Exiled Princes
A Game of Ombre
Anne is Thankful
The Duchess’s Ball
Isabella’s Sister
Prince George Ludwig of Hanover
Anne Enters Into Her Cabin
Scottish Gallants
With the Duchess
What Anne Learns from Sarah Churchill
The Duchess’s Health
Lady Peterborough’s Nephew
What a Good English Princess Knows about Protestant Dissenters
The Princess and the Poet: a Romance or All-pride and Naughty Nan: a Comedy
Part III
His Majesty’s Declaration to all His Loving Subjects
The Prince and Princess of Denmark
Anne’s Maids of Honour
Hans in Kelder
Anne’s Fall
12th May 1684
Anne Gives Thanks in Tunbridge Wells
The King’s Body, and his Immortal Soul
King James II’s First Speech to His Privy Council, As It Was Taken Down by Heneage Finch, Printed at London by the Assigns of John Bill, Deceased, and by Henry Hills and Thomas Newcomb, and Subsequently Read to the Princess of Denmark by Her Ladyship, the Countess of Clarendon.
Anne’s Religion
The King and his Parliament
Anne’s Daughter
King Monmouth
Physic
The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Anne’s Uncle Rochester
The Triumph of Squinting Betty
The Man from Versailles
The Vapours
The Queen of Hungary’s Water
Anne Treats Her Father Like a Turk
Lady Churchill’s Character
The Man from The Hague
From the Princess of Denmark to the Princess of Orange
Anne’s Fear
22nd October 1687
The Queen Is With Child
The King’s Vexation
The Queen’s Belly
From the Princess of Denmark to the Princess of Orange
16 April 1688
Exodus 14:13
From the Princess of Denmark to the Princess of Orange
The Parable of the Ten Virgins
Anne’s Uncle Clarendon
His Majesty Bleeds at the Nose
Part IV
The Throne is Vacant
Anne’s Abdication
Anne’s Sister
Lord Devonshire’s Leavings
Peas
Anne is Delivered in State
Mrs Pack
Persons Not At Ease
Anne in Lent
Chintz
Campden House
14th October 1690
The Queen’s Ladies
Anne Dines at Holywell
Anne’s Non-Naturals
The Reformation of Manners
From the Princess of Denmark to King James, written with the assistance of the Earl and Countess of Marlborough
Anne and her Sister Mary
The Earl of Marlborough’s Dismissal
From the Queen to the Princess of Denmark
From the Princess of Denmark to the Queen
Syon House
17th April 1692
Unkindness
Lady Marlborough’s Misfortunes
The Duke of Gloucester’s Birthday
Anne is Pardoned
In Bed with the Denmarks
What a Good English Prince Knows About Warfare
21st January 1694
Gloucester’s Progress or The Making of a Soldier
Mary Consumed
Part V
Anne at Thirty
The Good Hope
20th September 1696
Anne Dances
Love for Love
25th March 1697
The Peace of Ryswick
2nd December 1697
Whitehall Burns
Gloucester Is Taken Out of the Hands of Women
15th September 1698
Anne’s Bedchamber Woman
25th January 1700
From the Princess of Denmark to the Countess of Marlborough, in gratitude for her Lord’s good offices in securing a repayment for the Prince
The Duke’s Eleventh Birthday
Settlement
Acknowledgements