CHAPEL CORRIDOR.
No. 68.
MARY, QUEEN OF ENGLAND.
By Sir Godfrey Kneller.
BORN 1661, ASCENDED THE THRONE 1689, DIED 1694.
Red and white brocade dress. Blue mantle. Flowers in her hand.
SHE was the eldest daughter of King James II., by Anne Hyde, daughter of the Earl of Clarendon. Married in 1677 her first cousin, William, Prince of Orange, by whom she had no children. They reigned jointly as King and Queen on the abdication of her father.