ALBERONI, Julio Abbé (afterwards cardinal), Prime Minister of Spain, deceives Madame des Ursins as to the character of Elizabeth Farnese, 270-289; his representation of that most ambitious princess as "a jolly Parmesane fattened upon cheese and butter," 291; concerts with the Princess of Parma the ruin of Madame des Ursins, 292; belonged to the intrepid race of political gamesters, 294.
AMELOT, the President, nominated ambassador for Spain by Madame des Ursins, 191.
ANNE of AUSTRIA (mother of Louis XIV.), an example among all queens, and almost among all women, of constancy in adversity, 17; her reception of Mazarin after his exile, 18.
ANNE, Queen of England, her feeling towards the Whigs purely official, and not a genuine sympathy, 206; she secretly leans towards the Tories, as defender of the royal prerogative, 206; indolent and taciturn, she yields without resistance to the ascendency of Sarah Jennings, 215; her unhappy married life, 215; the Queen and Sarah treat each other as equals, writing under assumed names, 215; state of parties on her accession, 218; chooses a ministry combining both Whigs and Tories, 218; entertains the Archduke Charles with truly royal magnificence, 218; the Duchess of Marlborough surrounds the Queen with the chiefs of the Whigs against her will, 222; an endless succession of jars and piques between the Queen and the Duchess, 222; the insolence of the Mistress of the Robes towards the Queen, 226; gives her favour and confidence to Mrs. Masham, 227; Anne cautiously creeps out of her subjection to the Duchess, 230; has some pangs of conscience in ill-treating Marlborough, 232; gives up all regard for the Duchess or gratitude to the Duke, 233; emancipates herself from obligations regardless of the confusion into which she casts the country, 234; intrigues of the bed-chamber, 234; a weak woman domineered over by one attendant and wheedled and flattered by another, 234; gives herself up entirely to Mrs. Masham, 236; dreading the furious violence of the Duchess, Anne leaves London, 237; spares the Duke and Duchess not from compassion but fear, 242; terrified at the Duchess's threat to publish her letters, 242; exonerates the Duchess from the charge of cheating, 243; demands the return of the gold key from the Duchess, 244; divides her Court places between Mrs. Masham and the Duchess of Somerset, 245; writes with her own hand the dismissal of the Duchess, and gives herself up to her enemies, 246; her apathetic remark on hearing that the Duke and Duchess had left England, 248; she never sees again her great general or the woman to whom she was once so strongly attached, 248; her conduct towards Madame des Ursins in the repudiation of Lexington's convention, 281.