<Tr> <Th> Name </Th> <Th> Portrait </Th> <Th> Arms </Th> <Th> Birth </Th> <Th> Marriages </Th> <Th> Death </Th> <Th> Claim </Th> <Th> Ref . </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Before the Acts of Union 1707 </Th> <Th_colspan="6"> See List of English monarchs, List of Scottish monarchs </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Anne 1 May 1707--1 August 1714 (7 years, 92 days) </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 6 February 1665 St James's Palace Daughter of James II and VII and Anne Hyde </Td> <Td> George of Denmark St James's Palace 28 July 1683 No surviving children </Td> <Td> 1 August 1714 Kensington Palace Aged 49 </Td> <Td> Daughter of James II and VII Cognatic primogeniture Bill of Rights 1689 </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> The Hanoverian succession came about as a result of the Act of Settlement 1701, passed by the Parliament of England, which excluded "Papists" (i.e. Roman Catholics) from the succession . In return for access to the English plantations in North America and the West Indies, the Hanoverian succession and the Union were ratified by the Parliament of Scotland in 1707 . </P>

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