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   Mother. Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach. Signature. Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach (Wilhelmina Charlotte Caroline; 1 March 1683 – 20 November 1737 [a]) was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Electress of Hanover from 11 June 1727 until her death in 1737 as the wife of King George II .

   • Burial: 17 December 1737, Westminster Abbey, London
   • House: Hohenzollern

   • Father: John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
   • Mother: Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach

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   Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach was the wife of King George II of Great Britain (reigned 1727–60). Beautiful and intelligent, she exercised an influence over her husband that was decisive in establishing and maintaining Sir Robert Walpole as prime minister (1730–42). The daughter of a German.

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4. www.newstatesman.com › long-reads › 2014Caroline of Ansbach: the Georgian queen who brought the ...

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   May 1, 2014 · Caroline was a woman very like her husband’s grandmother Sophia – intelligent, well-read, curious, and crucially, poised to become Queen of Great Britain. In her 2010 book Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court, Lucy Worsley calls her “the cleverest queen consort ever to sit on the throne of England”.

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   Who was Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach?

   • Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach (Wilhelmina Charlotte Caroline; 1 March 1683 – 20 November 1737 [a]) was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Electress of Hanover from 11 June 1727 until her death in 1737 as the wife of King George II .

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   • Caroline of Ansbach appears in Sir Walter Scott 's Heart of Midlothian. She is also detailed in Lord Hervey's Memoirs of the Reign of George II (ed. by J.W. Croker, 1884) and W.H. Wilkins' Caroline the Illustrious (1904). Lofts, Norah. Queens of England.

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   How did Caroline of Ansbach become Queen of Great Britain?

   • Caroline of Ansbach’s path to becoming queen of Great Britain began by refusing to become Holy Roman Empress. In the autumn of 1703, the young aristocrat received a breathless letter from a Habsburg courtier outlining in the vaguest terms “extremely important matters concerning your Serene Highness’s greatest happiness”.

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   How did Walpole influence Caroline of Ansbach?

   • Walpole, too, in earning Caroline’s trust, recognised that he had got “the right sow by the ear”. Public opinion never doubted Caroline of Ansbach’s influence. “You may strutt, dapper George, but ’twill all be in vain; We know ’tis Caroline, not you, that reign,” taunted contemporary doggerel.

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6. www.encyclopedia.com › caroline-ansbach-1683-1737Caroline of Ansbach (1683–1737) | Encyclopedia.com

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   Born on October 22 (some sources cite November 2), 1709, in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany; died on January 12, 1759, in The Hague, Netherlands; daughter of George II (1683–1760), king of Great Britain and Ireland (r. 1727–1760), and Caroline of Ansbach (1683–1737); married William IV, prince of Orange (r. 1748–1751), on March 25, 1734 ...

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   Nov 1, 2014 · 1st November 2014. <! [CDATA [Lucy Worsley has called Caroline of Ansbach "the cleverest queen consort ever to sit on the throne of England". In many ways, she really was. The wife of King...

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   Mar 1, 2022 · Caroline was 13 years old, homeless and dowerless. Marriage provided her escape. Yet in Caroline’s case, this still represented success against all odds. As the portionless younger daughter of a lesser princeling, her prospects were limited.

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    Oct 3, 2017 · Caroline of Ansbach: The Brainiest Princess. Date: 03 October 2017. Author: Dr Joanna Marschner. George Augustus of Hanover and his wife, Caroline of Ansbach arrived in London in 1714, in the train of the new king, George I, George Augustus's father.