A QUEEN ANNE SHILLING 1702-1714
Anne’s tenuous entitlement to England’s throne hung on her relationship through marriage to her brother-in-law William III (William of Orange) who died aged 51 after a fall from his horse while riding at Hampton Court in 1702.
The English Parliament elected her as their monarch for no other reason than that she was a staunch Protestant and thus far preferable to a return to a Roman Catholic
