Family/Spouse: Princess of Prussia Wilhelmina Frederika Sofia. Wilhelmina (daughter of Prince of Prussia Augustus Wilhelm and Princess Luise Amalie Brunswick-Wolfenbhuttel) was born on 07 Aug 1751 in Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia; died on 09 Jun 1820 in Het Loo, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands; was buried on 17 Jun 1820 in Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Frederica was born in 1770; died in 1819.
2. King William of the Netherlands, I was born on 24 Aug 1772 in Oraniensaal, The Hague; died on 12 Dec 1843 in Berlin, Germany.
3. Frederick was born in 1774; died in 1799.

William + Princess Royal of Orange Anne Hanover. Anne (daughter of King of England George Augustus Hanover, II and Caroline of Ansbach Brandenburg) was born on 02 Nov 1709 in Herrenhausen, Ammerland, Niedersachsen, Germany; died on 12 Jan 1759 in The Hague, Netherlands; was buried on 23 Feb 1759 in Delft, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mary Louise in 1709. Mary was born in 1688; died in 1765. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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George II succeeded to the British throne and the electorate of Hanover on the death of his f ather, George I, in 1727. Born on Nov. 10, 1683, in Hanover, he remained largely Hanoverian i n his interests, although,unlike his father, he learned fluent English. He visited the electo rate regularly during most of his reign and sometimes utilized his position asking of Englan d to the advantage of his German territory.

Although George has been represented as a king manipulated by his own ministers--notably Si r Robert Walpole and the duke of Newcastle--and byhis highly intelligent wife, Queen Carolin e (1683-1737), he was by no means a weak monarch. He played a larger part in the direction o f foreign and military policy than most contemporaries suspected, and at Dettingen (1743), i n the War of the Austrian Succession, was the last British monarch to appear in person on th e battlefield. His reign witnessed the final collapse of the Jacobites after their uprising o f 1745 and closed with Britain's brilliant successes in the Seven Years' War (1756-63) unde r the leadership of William Pitt the Elder. George had long detested Pitt, but he eventuall y came to recognize his merits.

George's son, Frederick, predeceased him, so when George II died on Oct.25, 1760, he was succ eeded by Frederick's son, George III. Although he was vulnerable to management by others, Geo rge II was undoubtedly aknowledgeable and skillful politician, within the narrow framework o f Hanoverian interests in which he worked.

Died of aneurysm

Buried:
Westminster Abbey

Died:
Kensington Palace

George married Caroline of Ansbach Brandenburg on 22 Aug 1705 in Herrenhausen, Ammerland, Niedersachsen, Germany. Caroline (daughter of Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach Johann Friedrich and Princess of Saxe-Marksuhl Eleonore Erdmuthe Louisa) was born on 01 Mar 1683 in Ansbach, Mittelfranken, Bavaria; died on 20 Nov 1737 in St. James' Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, England; was buried on 17 Dec 1737 in Westminster, Middlesex, London, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
Westminster Abbey

Heinrich + Henriette Amalie. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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George I, elector of Hanover, succeeded to the British throne on the death of Queen Anne in 1 714. The succession was determined by the Act ofSettlement of 1701, which passed over the leg itimate but Roman Catholic representatives of the Stuart line in favor of the Protestant hous e of Hanover, descended from the daughter of James I.

George quarreled both with his wife, Sophia Dorothea (1666-1726), whom he divorced and incarc erated (from 1694 until her death) in punishment forher alleged infidelity, and with his son , Prince George, who consorted with his political opponents. The prince succeeded to the thro ne as George II when George I died on June 12, 1727.

Died of stroke. Reigned from 1714 to 1727.

George married Sophia Dorothea of Celle on 22 Nov 1682 in Celle. Sophia (daughter of Duke of Brunswick-Celle Georg Wilhelm and Elbeonore Desmier D' Olbreuse, daughter of Duke George William of Brunswick and Celle) was born on 10 Sep 1666 in Celle, Hannover, Prussia; died on 13 Nov 1726 in Schloss Ahlden, Hannover, Prussia; was buried in Celle, Hannover, Prussia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]