2-356-301 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, 1703 (1906). From the original painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Charles Seymour befriended Princess Anne in 1692, and became a favourite of the Queen when she came to the throne in 1702, and was given the post of Master of the Horse. As a Privy Councillor he was instrumental in securing the Hanoverian succession when Anne was near death in 1714. A print from Queen Anne, by Herbert Paul, Goupil and Co, London, 1906.