in 1835 did what no sovereign has done since--dissolved Parliament against the wish of the government.
From 1696 to 1701 the Whigs were in office.

Then on the death of William and the accession of Anne, Tory ministers were included in the government, and for seven years the Cabinet was composite again.

But Marlborough and Godolphin found that if they were to remain in power it must be by the support of the Whigs, who had made the support of the war against France a party question; and from 1708 to 1710 the ministry was definitely Whig.

By 1710 the war had ceased to be popular, and the general election of that year sent back a strong Tory majority to the House of Commons, with the result that the Tory leaders, Harley (Earl of Oxford) and Henry St.John (Bolingbroke) took office.

The Tories fell on the death of Anne, because their plot to place James (generally called the Chevalier or the old Pretender), the Queen's half-brother, on the throne was defeated by the readiness of the Whig Dukes of Somerset and Argyll to proclaim George, Elector of Hanover, King of England.