One of the most important acts of a Royal is to have a child to carry on the Royal lineage and I did try, I had 17 children in total but lost all of them as babies except one, William, who reached the age of 11 before realising that he was a bit odd, living so long so he popped his clogs and that changed the course of the royal family and the end of the Stuart dynasty and allowed the German Hanover dynasty to begin.
I was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1702 and the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1707 when the Kingdoms of Scotland and England merged with one Parliament.
I was married to the Prince of Denmark, George, but even I found him very boring.
He suffered from asthma and when he had an attack he breathed very heavily which wasn't great for him but showed that at least he was still alive. If he didn’t pant loudly he might be carried off and buried by mistake.
As he didn’t have much work to do ruling the country, he spent his time making model ships so when I came to the throne I made him Lord High Admiral.
I was plagued by poor health throughout my life, primarily gout which not only meant I was unable to move much but my sedentary lifestyle meant I also piled on the pounds and had to be carried to my Coronation for which i was actually 51st in the throne for.
After the whole Catholic's are evil thing and shouldnt be trusted with sharp kitchen implements or seats of Royalty at the time, I leapfrogged over 50 Catholics who had stronger claims but were excluded from the line of succession.
I fell ill at Christmas in 1713 and as i was so feverish and kept losing consciousness, my death was seen as imminent but I wasn't known as the most stubborn woman in Great Britain for nothing and held on for months until a stroke did for me in July 1714 and ushered in the Germans.
7 comments:
ahhh, another great leader from the uk...
None have been great.
that is a stupid comment. none have been perfect, but some have been great.
problem is, you leftists are "snipers". you focus on weaknesses and mistakes, and you ignore achievements and strengths. a truly open-minded person accounts for all aspects of a leader. but you are a journalist and leftist... so no open-mindedness to be found in that bio...
I know you have a very low bar for who is great but go on then, name a great one.
so you can write one of your stupid "guest" posts?
pass
Yep
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