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Statue of Queen Anne
Anne, Queen of Great Britain (r. 1702-1714) succeeded her brother-in-law, William III, in 1702 and oversaw the Act of Union in 1707, which merged England and Scotland into a single state with one common parliament, forming the Kingdom of Great Britain. Much of her reign was spent fighting the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), where British troops conquered Gibraltar and Menorca in the Mediterranean Sea. Anne, despite her 17 pregnancies, had no surviving children with her husband, Prince George of Denmark, making her the last Stuart monarch.
The statue of Anne was designed by Richard Claude Belt and Louis-August Malempre in 1886, to replace its original, which had stood since 1712 and had been damaged and eroded. Standing in the churchyard of St Paul’s Cathedral, London, the statue depicts Anne with the symbols of gilded monarchy: a gilded crown atop her head, a gilded sceptre in her right hand and a gilded orb in her left. Below her, she is flanked by four figures who are mythical representatives of England, France, Ireland, and North America: four realms she ruled (or claimed to rule) over.
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