William III, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: Later Years

A center of disaffection from c.1690 was the household of the queen's sister Anne (later Queen Anne), who with her favorites, the Marlboroughs, had been alienated by the hostile attitude of William and Mary. William's popularity diminished greatly after the death (1694) of the childless Queen Mary, and his concern near the end of his life with the Partition Treaties and with the War of the Spanish Succession (see Spanish Succession, War of the), in which England was involved in another long duel with France, did nothing to improve it.

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Later Years
• Foreign Policy and Constitutional Change
• The Glorious Revolution
• Early Life
• Bibliography

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