The taste for books, plays and programmes about the British monarchy never seems to go away. Yet even now few people know much about Queen Anne, who reigned for just 12 years. A new play for the Royal Shakespeare Company aims to change that, delving into the Queen's long and intimate relationship with the aristocrat Sarah Churchill. Playwright Helen Edmundson, author of Queen Anne, admits that until three years ago she knew almost nothing about Britain's last Stuart monarch. "But I'm sure that's true of many people who otherwise think they're pretty clued up about British history. Compared to Elizabeth I or Victoria she barely registers: it's true her reign was relatively short but that's...
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