ANNE, Queen of England, her feeling towards the Whigs purely official, and not a genuine sympathy, 206; she secretly leans towards the Tories, as defender of the royal prerogative, 206; indolent and taciturn, she yields without resistance to the ascendency of Sarah Jennings, 215; her unhappy married life, 215; the Queen and Sarah treat each other as equals, writing under assumed names, 215; state of parties on her accession, 218; chooses a ministry combining both Whigs and Tories, 218; entertains the Archduke Charles with truly royal magnificence, 218; the Duchess of Marlborough surrounds the Queen with the chiefs of the Whigs against her will, 222; an endless succession of jars and piques between the Queen and the Duchess, 222; the insolence of the Mistress of the Robes towards the Queen, 226; gives her favour and confidence to Mrs. Masham, 227; Anne cautiously creeps out of her subjection to the Duchess, 230; has some pangs of conscience in ill-treating Marlborough, 232; gives up all regard for the Duchess or gratitude to the Duke, 233; emancipates herself from obligations regardless of the confusion into which she casts the country, 234; intrigues of the bed-chamber, 234; a weak woman domineered over by one attendant and wheedled and flattered by another, 234; gives herself up entirely to Mrs. Masham, 236; dreading the furious violence of the Duchess, Anne leaves London, 237; spares the Duke and Duchess not from compassion but fear, 242; terrified at the Duchess's threat to publish her letters, 242; exonerates the Duchess from the charge of cheating, 243; demands the return of the gold key from the Duchess, 244; divides her Court places between Mrs. Masham and the Duchess of Somerset, 245; writes with her own hand the dismissal of the Duchess, and gives herself up to her enemies, 246; her apathetic remark on hearing that the Duke and Duchess had left England, 248; she never sees again her great general or the woman to whom she was once so strongly attached, 248; her conduct towards Madame des Ursins in the repudiation of Lexington's convention, 281. AUBIGNY, Louis d', equerry of Madame des Ursins, 178; his character and familiar relations with the Princess, 178; the intercepted letter intimating that they were married, 178; becomes a perfect _caballero_, 260; sent secretly to France by Madame des Ursins to negotiate with Torcy, 278; despatched to Utrecht to negotiate the principality, 280; obtains only vague hopes on the part of the Dutch, 281.