The New International Encyclopædia/Mary II.

MARY II. (1662-94). Queen of Great Britain. She was born at Saint James's Palace, April 30, 1662, the eldest daughter of James II. and Anne Hyde, who was a daughter of the Earl of Clarendon. At the age of fifteen she was married to William, Prince of Orange. She joined her husband in England early in 1689 after the flight of her father. In the same year Parliament declared the crown of England vacant by the abdication of James, and conferred it upon William (III.) and Mary. She died of smallpox December 28, 1694. Consult: Burnet, Essay Upon the Life of Queen Mary (London, 1695); Doebner (ed.), Memoirs and Letters of Mary II., Queen of England (Leipzig, 1886). See William III.