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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Mary II Biography MARY II (1662-94). Queen of Great Britain. She was born at St. James`s Palace, April 30, 1662, the eldest daughter of James II and Anne Hyde, who was a daughter of the Earl of Clarendon, At the age of 15 she was married to William, Prince of Orange. She joined her husband in England early in 1689 after the flight of her father. In the same year Parliament declared the crown of England vacant by the abdication of James, and conferred it upon William (III) and Mary. She died of smallpox Dec. 28, 1694. Consult: Gilbert Burnet, Essay upon the Life of Queen Mary (London, 1695); Doebner (ed.), Memoirs arid Letters of Mary II, Queen of England (Leipzig, 1886); P. S. Rait, Five Stuart Princesses (New York, 1908); Morris, Reign of William and Mary (ib., 1910); E. and M. S. Grew, The Court of William III (Boston, 1910). The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. XV (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 166. |