Expert: Mark Smith - 2/2/2009

Question
Mark, I have read that Queen Anne had eighteen children
including those still-born and miscarried.What number were
boys and what number were girls and how many were christened?

Answer
Hello Terry.
Queen Anne had 18 pregnancies between 1684 and 1700 which resulted in five live births. They were :
Mary born June 1685, died February 1687.
Anne born May 1686, died February 1687.
William born July 1689, died July 1700.
Mary born and died October 1690.
George born and died April 1692.
The first three were certainly baptized, but the two youngest died so soon after birth it's possible they were never baptized.
Her 13 other pregnancies ended in either miscarriage or stillbirth.
Mark