In the Stuart Era, food took up to four-fifths of an ordinary family's budget. Despite ways of treating food, such as salting meat and fish, the diet of the poor remained rather basic. The diet was based on hunks of bread, coarse hard cheese, meat if it could be afforded, and fish. Pottage continued to be a part of the staple diet. Ale was consumed in vast quantities.
At the end of the 17th Century, a writer estimated that half the population could afford to eat meat every day. Below them, about 30% could afford to eat meat 2 and 6 times a week, and the bottom 20% could only eat meat once a week.
Anne was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland between 1702 and 1707. On 1st May, 1707, under the Acts of Union, the Kingdoms of England and Scotland united as a single sovereign state known as Great Britain. She continued to reign as Queen of Great Britain and Ireland until her death in 1714.
BORN 1665 St.James's Palace, London
DIED 1714 Kensington Palace
SPOUSE Prince George of Denmark
CHILDREN Prince William, Duke of Gloucester (+ more)
PARENTS James VII and II and Anne Hyde.
Mary II was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, co-reigning with her husband, King William III and II, from 1689 until her death. Popular histories usually refer to the joint reign as that of William and Mary.
BORN 1662 St.James's Palace London
DIED 1694 Kensington Palace, London
CO-MONARCH William III and II
SIBLINGS Anne, Queen of Great Britain, Louisa Maria Stuart (+more)
PARENTS James II of England, Anne Hyde
BOOKS Memories of Mary, Queen of England (1689-1693).
James VII and II was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII, from 6th February 1685 until he was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Scotland and Ireland, his reign is now remembered primarily for struggles over religious tolerance. (Wikipedia)
BORN 1633 St.James's Palace, London
DIED 1701 Chateau se Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
CHILDREN Mary II of England, Anne Queen of Great Britain (+more)
SPOUSES Mary of Modena, Anne Hyde
PARENTS Charles I and Henrietta Maria.
James II of England and VII of Scotland lived to 24,798 days, the 9th longest amongst British Monarchs.
