Anne, Queen (1665‒1714)

Anne, Queen, daughter of James II.; by the union of Scotland with England during her reign in 1707 became the first sovereign of the United Kingdom; her reign distinguished by the part England played in the war of the Spanish succession and the number of notabilities, literary and scientific, that flourished under it, though without any patronage on the part of the Queen (1665‒1714).

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)