This Week’s Question:
William Lamb overcame what huge 1812 scandal to become Prime Minister and mentor to Queen Victoria?
Last Week’s Question:
What malady kept the future Queen Anne from attending her sister Mary’s wedding to William of Orange?
Answer: J. G. Burdette was right—it was smallpox, that scourge of the 17th and 18th centuries. Although Anne survived (obviously), her governess, Lady Frances Villiers, contracted the disease and died.
