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If you know anything about England's Queen Anne, you likely know her as the petulant, sickly non-entity that her enemies painted her to be.

But that version of Anne was crafted by people

who had every reason to tear her down. The truth is, she steered England through war,

political chaos, and the birth of a United Kingdom. She helped position Britain as a rising world

power, but history's been doing her dirty ever since. And it's finally time

we give her the credit she deserves. The end. Let's talk about Queen Anne. But first, let's drop her

into history. In 1702, the first English daily newspaper began publication.

Although credited in print as simply E. Mallet, the editor and creator was a woman, Elizabeth Mallet.

East Jersey and West Jersey united to become the British colony of New Jersey in North America.

Tsar Peter I, who history knows as Peter the Great, was mid-rein in Russia

in instituting sweeping modernization changes throughout the country.

Louis XIV, the Sun King, sat on the throne of France as he had been for the previous 60 years.

And in 1702, Princess Anne became Queen Anne of England and began her rule.

Before we get into Queen Anne's story, we did want to give a little and big ears warning.

This story is full of the loss of pregnancy, of infants, of children,

maybe more so than any we've talked about ever. So we just wanted to be clear about that up front

before you get into this story. And now on with the show. The Lady Anne Stewart was born on February

6th, 1665 at St. James Palace, London,

the second of the two surviving daughters of James, Duke of York, and his first wife, Anne Hyde.

Anne's parents had eight children, but Anne and her sister Mary were the only ones to survive to adulthood.

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