1-628-815 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Lady Anne Hyde, Duchess of York (1637-1671), 1825. Anne was the first wife of King James II of England (they were married in 1660) and the mother of two queens: Mary II and Anne. After Anne, no other Englishwoman would marry an heir presumptive or heir apparent to the British throne until the marriage of Lady Diana Spencer to Charles, Prince of Wales in 1981. From Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain by Edmund Lodge, published by Harding and Lepard (London, 1825).