FOUR QUEENS
Sir,-Your issue of February 15 contains an interesting article entitled "Four Queens Have Reigned." The four Queens named are Mary (1516), Elizabeth (1558), Anne (1702), and Victoria (1837). Now I was taught that Mary, the elder daughter of James II, succeeded her father as Mary II (together with her husband William_III in 1689. following the so-called Glorious Revolution, as Queen Regnant and not as Queen Consort. I always understood that they had been crowned jointly as William III and Mary II and had reigned tagether until Mary’s death in 1694, as jdint Sovereigns. . Statutes passed during the five-year joint reign bear the name of William and Mary. After William’s untimely end in 1702 we know that the last Stuart succeeded in the person of Anne. Has not your article done an injustice to Mary Stuart in not according her an honourable mention in the biographical
notes?
JACK C.
FLETCHER
(Christchurch),
(Our purpose was to draw attention to Queens who, like the poet Ae pice were called upon to reign alo
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 660, 29 February 1952, Page 5
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172FOUR QUEENS New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 660, 29 February 1952, Page 5
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