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In 1688, the birth of a Prince of Wales ignited a family quarrel and a revolution. James II's drive towards Catholicism had alienated a nation and his two staunchly Protestant daughters, Mary and Anne. They are the 'ungrateful daughters' who usurped their father's crown and stole their brother's birthright. It was Anne who, as Queen Anne, visited Bath in the early part of the 18th Century to take the waters for her gout and started the fashion for Bath as a spa.
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