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According to historians, Queen Anne’s reign can be seen with two important events (Blythe 1998). More than just these events affect Queen Anne’s reign. Queen Anne’s childhood friend, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough played a political role during Queen Anne’s reign. Anne started her reign as a Tory, one of the political groups during the late 17th century and in the 18th century. Politics played a large role in many of the sovereigns ruling periods. Queen Anne’s reign was no exception. Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, used her friendship with Anne as a political tool along with the Anne’s maids of honour. Both women expressed political happiness with the Tory’s. Anne’s background may be seen considered as influenced from the start of her young life through her death. Much of Anne’s reign had also been tainted by her earlier predecessor, King William III. The Jacobites were not far behind in not supporting the Stuart sovereigns and believing that these Protestant sovereigns should not be ruling monarchs of England. The Stuart court had much political upheaval along with Anne’s eventual …show more content…

In Nothing but Ceremony, R.O. Bucholz (1991) argues “Anne---alone among the later Stuarts---made extensive use of the arsenal of ceremonial paraphernalia” (289). At the same time in Bucholz’s (1993) “The Augustan Court: Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture,” argues “that the courts continuing decline under the last Stuart was due as much to the political and financial circumstances of postrevolutionary monarchy and to Anne’s precarious health as to some defect of her personality” (202). These arguments presented will express the opposite nature of how the Stuart court had relevance or not during the early part of the 18th century. As the facts come to light for the Stuart court, each argument can be seen as representation with the ideals and true meanings of her

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