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Queen Anne: Seventeen Pregnancies and the End of the Stuarts
She was pregnant seventeen times. She buried every child. History calls her the last Stuart queen, the first Queen of Great Britain, the monarch who presided over the birth of a nation. She was also a woman who ran out of children before she ran out of grief, and the nation she built died with her, and by the end she had lost almost everything a person can lose and was still required to be a queen.