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- Born: March 1, 1683, Ansbach, Brandenburg-Ansbach [Germany] Died: November 20, 1737, London, England (aged 54) Notable Family Members: spouse George II son Frederick Louis, prince of Wales
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Caroline was born on 1 March 1683 at Ansbach, the daughter of John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and his second wife, Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach. [1] [2] Her father was the ruler of one of the smallest German states; he died of smallpox at the age of 32, when Caroline was three years old.
November 20, 1737, London, England (aged 54) Notable Family Members: spouse George II. son Frederick Louis, prince of Wales. Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach (born March 1, 1683, Ansbach, Brandenburg-Ansbach [Germany]—died November 20, 1737, London, England) was the wife of King George II of Great Britain (reigned 1727–60).
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Nov 1, 2014 · Caroline served as regent on occasion, and her death left the King devastated – so devastated, in fact, that he never married again. Caroline of Ansbach was born on 1st March 1683.
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”.
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 ...
Mar 1, 2022 · Caroline had been born 20 years earlier, on 1 March 1683, in the old Renaissance palace of Ansbach, a small town in modern-day Bavaria. It was an event of no significance. By an earlier marriage, her father, John Frederick, margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, already had three children.
Biography. Caroline von Brandenburg-Ansbach, the first Hannoverian on the English throne, must have been an impressive person. Although only »Queen Consort«, she had a major influence on English politics and earned much respect for herself and the Guelph Dynasty, which was at first quite unpopular in England. Born in 1683 in Ansbach in ...
