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25 unusual facts about Queen Anne


Anna Herr Clise

This facility remained in Queen Ann Hill until 1953, when it moved to its current location in Seattle’s Laurelhurst neighborhood.

Borley Rectory

Borley remained vacant for some time after the Foysters' departure, until in May 1937 Price took out a year-long rental agreement with Queen Anne's Bounty, the owners of the property.

Caffé Vita Coffee Roasting Company

Caffe Vita was founded in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood in 1995 by Mike McConnell, Mike Prins and Michael Foster.

Easy Street Records

Easy Street operated two stores - the first, located in West Seattle, opened in 1988; the second, in the Queen Anne neighborhood followed in 2002, but the only one currently running is the West Seattle location.

Findlay Napier

Before the demise of Back of the Moon, Napier began working on a project called Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers at first this project was to bridge the gap between the traditional roots of Back of the Moon and the contemporary song and arrangements of Queen Anne's Revenge.

While recording Back of the Moon’s second album at Watercolour Music in Ardgour Findlay was approached by producer and engineer Nick Turner to begin a Song Writing project which they later named "Queen Anne's Revenge".

Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers

Gillian Frame, Douglas Millar and Paul Jennings had worked with Napier before on many projects including Back of the Moon and Queen Anne's Revenge and were his first choice for band members.

Fred Anhalt

Most Anhalt apartments, especially those he built in Seattle's Capitol Hill, Seattle and Queen Anne neighborhoods such as Anhalt Arms (formerly Berkeley Court), feature landscaped interior courtyards.

Magnolia Bridge

In 1910, when a bridge was first proposed for this location, Queen Anne Hill and Magnolia were already connected by several trestles across Interbay, each spanning the railway that ran north-south through Interbay.

Mary Ormond

It is believed Blackbeard offered her as a gift to the crew of his ship Queen Anne's Revenge, although her ultimate fate is undocumented.

Queen Anne, Prince George's County, Maryland

The town was created in 1706 when the colonial Maryland Legislature authorized surveying and laying out the towns of Queen Anne Town, Nottingham, Mill Town, Piscataway, Aire (also known as Broad Creek) and Upper Marlboro (then known as Marlborough Town).

Queen Anne's Bounty Act 1703

In this section, the words from "inrolled in such manner" to "bargaines and sales" and the word "inrolled" where thereafter occurring were repealed section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948.

Queen Anne's Bounty Act 1706

This section was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1887.

Queen Anne's Bounty Act 1707

The Queen Anne's Bounty Act 1707 (6 Ann c 54) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.

Sections 2 and 3 and 4 were repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1887.

Queen Anne's lace

Queen Anne's lace is a common name for a plant and most often refers to the species Daucus carota.

Ammi majus, originates in the Nile River Valley and has white lace-like flower clusters

Anthriscus sylvestris, a herbaceous biennial or short-lived perennial plant in the family Apiaceae

Queen Anne's War

In negotiations there and at Casco Bay, the Abenakis orally objected to British assertions that the French had ceded their territory (present-day eastern Maine and New Brunswick) to Britain, and agreed to a confirmation of boundaries at the Kennebec River and the establishment of government-run trading posts in their territory.

Solstice Cyclists

The painting party took place this time in Belltown, meaning the cyclists had to ride a full three miles through the Seattle neighborhood of Queen Anne to get to Fremont.

Surreal Software

The group began operating in 1995 in an office in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood.

The Centreville Times

The 1822 Centerville Times was the first newspaper to be published in Queen Anne's County.

Wellfleet, Massachusetts

The wreck was discovered in 1984, and is to date only the second pirate ship ever discovered, Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge having been found off the coast of North Carolina.

West Queen Anne School

The West Queen Anne School was a Seattle public elementary school located in the Queen Anne, Seattle neighborhood from 1896 to 1981 and is now high-end condominiums.

Westminster City School

UWS comprised the Westminster City School, Emanuel School; The Grey Coat Hospital Foundation comprised the Grey Coat Hospital and Queen Anne's School.


Angelino Heights, Los Angeles

The district contains many notable examples of Victorian architecture, particularly of the Eastlake and Queen Anne styles, and though found throughout the neighborhood, they are especially concentrated on Carroll Avenue.

Anne Oglethorpe

Anne Oglethorpe became involved with Robert Harley, minister to Queen Anne, when he met with her after she was detained for questioning about a trip to France.

Broad Creek, Prince George's County, Maryland

The area was settled by Europeans in the 1660s and the town was created in 1706 when the colonial Maryland Legislature authorized surveying and laying out the towns of Queen Anne Town, Nottingham, Mill Town, Piscataway, Aire (also known as Broad Creek) and Upper Marlboro (then known as Marlborough Town).

Charles Wager

Following the death of Queen Anne, Wager was still listed as a Rear Admiral and he was ordered to take charge of the ships at Portsmouth, and in later to go out to the Strait of Gibraltar and assume command of the Mediterranean Fleet.

Colonial American military history

Beginning in 1689, the colonies also frequently became involved in a series of four major wars between Britain and France for control of North America, the most important of which were Queen Anne's War, in which the British won French Acadia (Nova Scotia), and the final French and Indian War (1754–1763), when France lost all of Canada.

Duke of Buckingham

The title of Duke of Buckingham and Normanby was created in 1703 for John Sheffield, Marquess of Normanby, a notable Tory politician of the late Stuart period, who served under Queen Anne as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council.

Embassy of the Republic of Macedonia in Washington, D.C.

The Moses House was constructed in 1893 and is a mixture of Queen Anne and Neoclassical architecture.

Erimem

She led armies in Ancient Egypt, and when the TARDIS crew landed in Paris in 1626, becoming embroiled in a plot to kill Queen Anne, Erimem was able to inspire and lead a combined force of both King Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu's guards against the English forces of the Duke of Buckingham (The Church and the Crown, 2002).

Ferndale Main Street Historic District

Eastlake-Stick style buildings by Architect T.J. Frost are particularly well represented as are Italianate, Queen Anne, Neo-Classic, Bungalow, and Mission styles.

Florida, Montgomery County, New York

On a trip to London to visit Queen Anne in 1710, arranged by the Albany mayor Peter Schuyler, the Four Mohawk Kings asked for help in defense against the French, and for Anglican missionaries to offset French Catholic influence.

Francis Trumble

Trumble produced a variety of "fine furniture" in the Queen Anne, Chippendale and Federal styles.

Hanworth, Norfolk

Hanging over the chancel arch there are the royal arms of Queen Anne (1702–1714) and were adopted by the crown after the union of England and Scotland in 1707.

James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde

After the accession of Queen Anne in March 1702, he became commander of the land forces co-operating with Sir George Rooke in Spain, where he fought in the Battle of Cádiz in August 1702 and the Battle of Vigo Bay in October 1702 during the War of the Spanish Succession.

John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll

In July 1714, during Queen Anne's last illness, the unexpected presence of Argyll and the Duke of Somerset at the Privy Council prevented Bolingbroke from taking full power on the fall of Oxford, and thus perhaps secured the Hanoverian succession.

John Hay of Cromlix

The family was sympathetic to the Stuart kings but still felt that being Protestant and serving Queen Anne and supporting the Harley administration did not mar this sympathy and loyalty.

Laying on of hands

Queen Anne was the last British monarch to claim to possess this divine ability, though the Jacobite pretenders also claimed to do so.

Lesley Abdela

Abdela was born in London and educated at Queen Anne's School, Chatelard School, Hammersmith College of Art and Building and the London College of Printing.

Marquess of Normanby

He was a notable Tory politician of the late Stuart period, who served under Queen Anne as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council.

Matthew Tilghman

Matthew was born on the family plantation, The Hermitage, near Centreville in Queen Anne's County, Maryland.

Patrick Piggot House

They designed a simple Queen Anne home, less ornate than the Cornwall house that later became popular novelist Amelia Barr's Cherry Croft summer home.

Paul Barillon

The marriage of the future Queen Anne to George of Denmark, brother of France's ally, was a triumph for French diplomacy, and it was probably Barillon who originally proposed the marriage, although he did not play a major role in subsequent negotiations, which were mainly conducted by Lord Sunderland; like most people, Barilllon found the groom entirely unimpressive.

Pierre Morpain

Since France and England were then at war, he made for the nearest safe port, which was Port Royal, the capital of Acadia.

Princess Anne High School

The school is named after the now extinct Princess Anne County, Virginia (itself named after the British Royal, Queen Anne, titled at the time and prior to ascension, Princess of Denmark) which was annexed with the founding of Virginia Beach.

Quebec Expedition

Queen Anne replaced him with Robert Harley, a political opponent of the Duke of Marlborough, who had also fallen out of favour.

Reportedly haunted locations in Kentucky

The Owens House in Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky, is a Queen Anne house which was built by John Allen Owens in 1894.

Solon Spencer Beman

Fashionable at the time, these styles included Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival, and Châteauesque (sometimes called Francis I style after the French king from 1515-1547).

Sunderland, Ontario

He was the Secretary of State, and he helped move Palatine German families to London and then, with Queen Anne's aid, to Ireland in the early 18th century.

Thomas Rochfort

Roger's elder brother Robert was the ancestor of another distinguished judge Robert Rochfort, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer under Queen Anne, whose descendants gained the title Earl of Belvedere.

University of Edinburgh Law School

In 1707, the year of the unification of the Kingdoms of Scotland and England into the Kingdom of Great Britain, Queen Anne established the Chair of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations in the University of Edinburgh, to which Charles Erskine (or Areskine) was appointed; this was the formal start of the Faculty of Law.

Visalia Heights, Visalia, California

The district contains several notable examples of Victorian architecture, particularly of the Eastlake and Queen Anne styles, and though found throughout the neighborhood, they are especially concentrated on Encina Street.

Winslow Crocker House

Thacher's collection of furniture, accented by colorful hooked rugs, ceramics, and pewter, presents a thorough survey of early American styles, from Jacobean, William and Mary, and Queen Anne to Chippendale.