It was at Kensington Palace that Anne's husband, Prince George of Denmark, at length succumbed, in 1708, to a prolonged illness of gout and asthma. During his last sickness and death, Anne had the "consolation" of the Duchess of Marlborough's "sympathy." Her Grace's deportment, according to an eye-witness, "while the Prince was actually dying, was of such a nature that the Queen, then in the height of her grief, was not able to bear it." She actually forced her way, as Mistress of the Robes, to the poor Prince's deathbed, and only drew into the background when peremptorily ordered by the heart-broken wife to leave the room. After Prince George had breathed his last, she stepped forward again, and when all the others had left, insisted on remaining with poor Anne, who was "weeping and _clapping_ her hands together, and swaying herself backwards and forwards" in an agony of grief. The Queen was at length induced to accede to the Duchess's advice to leave "_that dismal body_" and remove to St. James's. Two years later, in these very same state rooms of Kensington Palace took place the famous final interview between the Queen and her whilom favourite, also subsequently noticed in our description of "Queen Anne's Private Dining Room." =Death of Queen Anne.= In the summer of the year 1714 Queen Anne was seized, at Kensington Palace, with apoplexy, brought on by political worries. She had been failing in health for some time; and on July 27th had an attack of blood to the head, while presiding at her Cabinet Council, and was carried in a dead faint to her bed. Four days after, Charles Ford, an official of the government and a correspondent of Swift, wrote: "I am just come from Kensington, where I have spent these two days. At present the Queen is alive, and better than could have been expected; her disorder began about eight or nine yesterday morning. The doctors ordered her head to be shaved; while it was being done, the Queen fell into convulsions, or, as they say, a fit of apoplexy, which lasted two hours, during which she showed but little sign of life." At six in the evening of the same day, another anxious watcher within the palace walls, says Miss Strickland, wrote to Swift: "At the time I am writing, the breath is _said_ to be in the Queen's nostrils, but that is all. No hopes of her recovery,"--and in effect she breathed her last the following day, in the fiftieth year of her age. "Her life would have lasted longer," wrote Roger Coke, in his "Detection," "if she had not eaten so much.... She supped too much chocolate, and died monstrously fat; insomuch that the coffin wherein her remains were deposited was almost square, and was bigger than that of the Prince, her husband, who was known to be a fat, bulky man." =George I. at Kensington Palace.=