Queen Mary (Mary Stuart)
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According to Sir Winston Churchill in his book The History of the English Speaking Peoples, women "meant little" to William, and Sir Winston continues as follows:
"For a long time he treated his loving, faithful wife with indifference. Later on, towards the end of his reign, when he saw how much Queen Mary had helped him in the English sphere of his policy, he was sincerely grateful to her, as to a faithful friend or Cabinet officer who had maintained the Government. His grief at her death was unaffected".
The phrase "he saw how much Queen Mary had helped him in the English sphere of his policy" is an understatement, in fact Queen Mary ruled Great Britain and Ireland for the five or six months of every year in which William was on the continent for military campaigns and in connection with his governorships in the Dutch Republic.