James II Anne Hyde
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# Savoy Court Standing at Savoy Court, you're at the threshold of one of England's most consequential secret ceremonies—on the stroke of midnight on September 3rd, 1660, Anne Hyde and the Duke of York exchanged vows within Worcester House that once occupied this very ground, a clandestine marriage ...
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Savoy Court
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On part of this site in 1640 was built Worcester House where lived Edward second Marquess of Worcester. At midnight on the 3rd. September, 1660, Anne Hyde daughter of the Earl of Clarendon was secretly married here to the Duke of York (afterwards James II) whose two daughters, Mary and Anne, became Queens of England.