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    Strong Women

    Nov 22, 2017 3 minutes
    Review by Anne Sebba


    Queen Anne by Helen Edmundson played at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London in summer 2017

    The bravest soul. The keenest mind. The greatest woman of her time. Is that how Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, is remembered by posterity?

    These powerful words are Sarah Churchill’s as she exits the stage of , a gripping new play about the twelve-year reign (1702–14) of the last Stuart Queen of England and her friendship with the wife of the first Duke

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