Anne Hyde was the first wife of James, Duke of York, later James II, and mother of the future queens Mary II and Anne. Daughter of the statesman Edward Hyde, she met James while serving the royal household in exile. Their marriage was formally celebrated after the Restoration in 1660. After the Restoration, Anne and James were secretly married in London on September 3, 1660, shortly before the birth of their first child. Despite opposition from the royal family, the marriage was recognized, and Anne became Duchess of York. She had eight children, but only two daughters survived to adulthood: the future queens Mary II and Anne. She presided over a lively household, and her father's fall from power in 1667 left her more isolated at court. Around 1670 she secretly converted to Roman Catholicism. Anne died of cancer at St James's Palace on March 31, 1671, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. James remarried two years later, but her daughters were raised as Protestants. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.