Lives of the queens of England, from the Norman conquest; . r theroyal family in our liturgy. It is a remarkable circum-stance that James II. thus particularly distinguished bothhis daughters by name and titles in this prayer, althoughin that century, as in the present, only the heir-apparentamong the children of the sovereign, or at most an heir-presumptive, was usually mentioned. In all probability,he thus designated them to prevent all disputes regardingtheir title to the succession in ease of his death, as theirmother was only a private gentlewoman. The princessof Orange and the princess A
Lives of the queens of England, from the Norman conquest; . r theroyal family in our liturgy. It is a remarkable circum-stance that James II. thus particularly distinguished bothhis daughters by name and titles in this prayer, althoughin that century, as in the present, only the heir-apparentamong the children of the sovereign, or at most an heir-presumptive, was usually mentioned. In all probability,he thus designated them to prevent all disputes regardingtheir title to the succession in ease of his death, as theirmother was only a private gentlewoman. The princessof Orange and the princess Anne were certainly thusnamed in the liturgy every time divine service was cele-brated by the church of England until they deposed theirfather: it is an instance that he was not disposed, in anyway, to slight their claims, either to royalty or his paternal 1 Sandford, repeated by Menin, in his Coronation Ceremonials of England,p. 16. He edited this as a guide to the coronation of George II., the ceremo-nial of which is printed with it. u ^ ^ «3- vS s ^ O). MAKY n. 113 care. James II. was kinder to his daughters than GeorgeII. to his heir, for in the very volume which gives this in-formation, a similar prayer, in the very words, is quoted;but in regard to the nomenclature, only king George andhis queen Caroline are prayed for; neither Frederick princeof Wales nor their other children are named. Great friendship apparently prevailed at the epoch ofthe coronation between the princess Anne and her step-mother. Before the newly-crowned queen, Mary Beatrice,commenced her procession back to Westminster hall, sheentered the box of the princess Anne, to show her dress,and hold friendly conference: Anne and prince George ofDenmark, who bore his spouse company, conversed withher a considerable time. The princess Anne accompaniedthe queen to behold the grand ceremony of the kings open-ing his first parliament; both Anne and her step-motherwere on the right of the throne: they were consider
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