Editing Anne, Queen of Great Britain (section)

== Titles, styles, honours and arms ==
=== Titles and styles ===
* 6 February 1665 – 28 July 1683: ''Her Highness'' The Lady Anne<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=1065|page=2|date=31 January 1675}} {{London Gazette|issue=1143|page=1|date=30 October 1676}}</ref>
* 28 July 1683 – 8 March 1702: ''Her Royal Highness'' The Princess Anne of Denmark<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=2361|page=1|date=5 July 1688}} {{London Gazette|issue=2365|page=2|date=19 July 1688}}</ref>
* 8 March 1702 – 1 August 1714: ''Her Majesty'' The Queen

The official style of Anne before 1707 was "Anne, by the Grace of God, Queen of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, [[Fidei defensor|Defender of the Faith]], etc." After the union, her style was "Anne, by the Grace of God, Queen of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wallis, John Eyre Winstanley |url=https://archive.org/stream/englishregalyear00wall#page/62/mode/2up |title=English Regnal Years and Titles: Hand-lists, Easter dates, etc |publisher=Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge |year=1921 |location=London |pages=62–63}}</ref> In line with other monarchs of England between 1340 and 1800, Anne was styled "[[English claims to the French throne|Queen of France]]", but did not actually reign in France.<ref>Weir, p. 286</ref>

=== Arms ===
As [[queen regnant]], Anne's coat of arms before the union were the Stuart [[Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom|royal arms]], in use since 1603: [[Quartering (heraldry)|Quarterly]]; I and IV grandquarterly, [[Azure (heraldry)|Azure]] three [[Fleur-de-lis|fleurs-de-lis]] [[Or (heraldry)|Or]] (for France) and [[Gules]] three lions [[Attitude (heraldry)#Passant|passant guardant]] in [[Pale (heraldry)|pale]] Or ([[Royal Arms of England|for England]]); II, Or, a lion [[rampant]] within a double [[tressure]] flory-counter-flory Gules ([[Royal coat of arms of Scotland|for Scotland]]); III, Azure, a harp Or stringed [[Argent]] ([[Coat of arms of Ireland|for Ireland]]). In 1702, Anne adopted the motto ''semper eadem'' ("always the same"), the same motto used by [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth I]].<ref name="pinches">Pinches and Pinches, pp. 194–195</ref>
The Acts of Union declared that: "the Ensigns Armorial of the said United Kingdom be such as Her Majesty shall appoint".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Union with England Act 1707: Section I |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/aosp/1707/7/section/I |access-date=26 March 2013 |website=The National Archives}}</ref> In 1707, the union was heraldically expressed by the [[Impalement (heraldry)|impalement]], or placing side by side in the same quarter, of the arms of England and Scotland, which had previously been in different quarters. The new arms were: Quarterly; I and IV, Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or (for England) impaling Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules (for Scotland); II, Azure, three fleurs-de-lis Or (for France); III, Azure, a harp Or stringed Argent (for Ireland).<ref name="pinches" /> In Scotland, a separate form of arms was used on seals until the Act of Union.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Union with England Act 1707: Section XXIV |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/aosp/1707/7/section/XXIV |access-date=26 March 2013 |website=The National Archives}}</ref>

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