Editing Mary II (section)

=== Death ===
Mary was tall (5&nbsp;foot 11&nbsp;inches; 180&nbsp;cm) and apparently fit; she regularly walked between her palaces at [[Whitehall]] and [[Kensington]], and it appeared likely she would outlive her husband and sister, both of whom suffered from ill-health.<ref>Waller, p.285</ref> In late 1694, however, she contracted [[smallpox]]. She sent away anyone who had not previously had the disease, to prevent the spread of infection.<ref name="Van der Kiste, p. 177">Van der Kiste, p. 177</ref> Anne, who was once again pregnant, sent Mary a letter saying she would run any risk to see her sister again, but the offer was declined by Mary's [[groom of the stool]], the Countess of Derby.<ref>Van der Kiste, p. 179</ref> Several days into the course of her illness, the smallpox lesions reportedly disappeared, leaving her skin smooth and unmarked, and Mary said that she felt improved. Her attendants initially hoped she had been ill with measles rather than smallpox, and that she was recovering. But the rash had "turned inward", a sign that Mary was suffering from a usually fatal form of smallpox, and her condition quickly deteriorated.<ref>Waller, pp. 286-287</ref> Mary died at [[Kensington Palace]] shortly after midnight on the morning of 28 December, at the age of 32.<ref>Van der Kiste, pp. 179–180</ref>

William, who had grown increasingly to rely on Mary, was devastated by her death, and told Burnet that "from being the happiest" he was "now going to be the miserablest creature on earth".<ref name="Van der Kiste, p. 177" /> While the Jacobites considered her death divine retribution for breaking the [[Ten Commandments|fifth commandment]] ("honour thy father"), she was widely mourned in Britain.<ref>Waller, p. 288</ref> During a cold winter, in which [[the Thames]] froze, her embalmed body [[lay in state]] in [[Banqueting House, Whitehall]]. On 5 March, she was buried at [[Westminster Abbey]]. Her funeral service was the first of any royal attended by all the members of both [[Houses of Parliament]].<ref>Van der Kiste, p. 186; Waller, p. 289</ref> For the ceremony, composer [[Henry Purcell]] wrote ''[[Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Music for Queen Mary |url=http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/spotlight/feature.asp?id=7882 |access-date=18 September 2006 |publisher=The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County |archive-date=8 October 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061008210838/http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/spotlight/feature.asp?id=7882 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>Van der Kiste, p. 187</ref>