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Anne

[an]

noun

  1. 1665–1714, queen of England 1702–14 (daughter of James II of England).

  2. a first name, form of Anna.



Anne

/ æn /

noun

  1. Princess , the Princess Royal. born 1950, daughter of Elizabeth II of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; a noted horsewoman and president of the Save the Children Fund

  2. Queen. 1665–1714, queen of Great Britain and Ireland (1702–14), daughter of James II, and the last of the Stuart monarchs

  3. Saint. (in Christian tradition) the mother of the Virgin Mary. Feast day: July 26 or 25

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Guggenheim Investments Chief Investment Officer Anne Walsh said the correlation is working because there are important drivers for both gold and the stock market.

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Hours before the May 1960 opening of Amsterdam’s Anne Frank House, Otto Frank gazes at the empty annex where his family and four other Jews hid from the Nazis for more than two years.

Princess Anne left a toy bear at a memorial for children killed since Russia's full-scale invasion, and spoke to young people alleged to have been taken from their homes by Russian forces.

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An intriguing denouement confirms that readers of icons from Charles Dickens to Anne Perry can do no better than spending time with Charles Lenox, his family and ever-widening circle of friends.

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It follows the impact of his will on the fate of his four adult children, Arthur, Edward, Anne, and Ben.

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