Anne Bowesley

Lady Anne Bowesley, often referred to by her self-granted title of Queen Anne, is the Ventrue Prince of London in Vampire: The Masquerade.

As "Lady Anne", she served under her sire Valerius, the seneschal for the ancient prince Mithras. During one of Mithras' numerous sojourns out of London, Valerius made a de facto coup, taking the prince's power in all but name. With Mithras' return in the mid-19th century, Valerius was ousted and disgraced, and Anne took her sire's place in the prince's court. On two subsequent occasions, she was given covert permission by her Prince to lower her generation via diablerie.

During the Nazis' Blitz on London, Mithras vanished and was presumed destroyed, although he had actually been driven into torpor. In his absence, Anne took his place as the city's prince &mdash; but for decades, she was only the acting prince, in the increasingly unlikely event that Mithras had survived. With the effective confirmation of Mithras' destruction in the 1990s, Anne consolidated her power base, isolating her rivals and enemies before any of them could make a first strike against her. Since then, "Queen Anne" has ruled as the uncontested Prince of London and one of the most influential power-brokers of the European Kindred.