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Queen Caroline is seen here wearing state robes and an ermine cloak fastened with a gold Medusa brooch. The Queens profile is exactly the same as that on her medal, created for the coronation in 1727, by John Croker. Croker was a distinguished medallist and had worked at the Mint since the reign of William III and engraved coronation medals for Queen Anne, George I and George II. Caroline of ...
Queen Caroline. Caroline was born on 11th March 1683, a daughter of John, Margrave of Brandenberg-Ansbach. She played a large role in affairs of State and the king was distraught when she died after primitive surgery at St James' Palace on 1st December 1737 (New Style dating). She was buried on 17 December.
Caroline of Ansbach, the daughter of the John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, was born on 1st March, 1683. When her father died in 1686 she moved to the court of her guardian, Sophia Charlotte of Hanover. After rejecting Archduke Charles of Austria, she married George Augustus in 1705, the third-in-line to the British throne and ...
Caroline of Brunswick, 1795–1821. Caroline of Brunswick was the wife of George, Prince of Wales, Prince Regent and from 1820 Queen Consort to George IV of the United Kingdom. They separated in 1796 and she died in 1821. 1795–1796: Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey [12]
1 March 1683 - 20 November 1737. Caroline of Ansbach, destined to become the Queen Consort of George II, was born on 1st March 1683 in the small German state of Ansbach, she was the daughter of John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and his second wife, Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach. Her father died of smallpox at the ...
Jean Plaidy. 3.88. 355 ratings13 reviews. The survival of the British monarchy as a popular institution owes a lot toits queens who were, more often than not, more intelligent than theirhusbands. Caroline of Ansbach is such a queen. Well-educated and from one ofthe poorer German principalities, Caroline married into the boorish House ofHanover.
Sep 23, 2017 · Wilhelmine Karoline of Ansbach was born on 1 March 1683, the daughter of John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and his second wife, Eleanore of Saxe-Eisenach. Ansbach in the seventeenth century. Public domain. Her father died of smallpox when she was three. In 1692 her mother married John George IV, Elector of Saxony and the family ...
