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She ascended the thrones of Great britain, Scotland, and Ireland in 1702 at age 37, Britain's last Stuart monarch. Five years later she united two of her realms, Great britain and Scotland, as a sovereign express, creating the Kingdom of THE UK. She had a brief history of personal misfortune, conquering sick health (she suffered with crippling arthritis; by the time she became queen she was a online invalid) and coping with 17 miscarriages, stillbirths, and early births in 17 years. By the end of her comparatively short 12-12 months reign, Britain got surfaced as a great electric power; the succession of spectacular victories gained by her general, John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, got humbled France and laid the foundations for Britain's future naval and colonial supremacy. As the queen's government was performing stunning exploits on the continent, her own attention - indeed her world - rested on a far more intimate issue: the female friendship on which her happiness got for decades depended and which became, for her, a way to obtain utter torment. At the center of Anne Somerset's riveting new biography, published to great acclaim in Great britain, is a portrait of the deeply emotional, sophisticated relationship between two completely different women: Queen Anne - reserved, stolid, shrewd; and Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, partner of the queen's great general - beautiful, willful, outspoken, and whose acerbic wit was evenly matched by her fearsome temper. Against a fraught background, the much-admired historian, author of Elizabeth I , says the extraordinary story of how Sarah goaded and provoked the queen beyond stamina.
