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• Occupation: King of England reigned 1727 to 1760
• Stories and Notes: George II was born in Hanover the son of George I and Sophia of Celle. He married Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach in 1705 an attractive and intelligent woman, and they had 9 children. In 1708 he took part in the Battle of Oudenarde in Belgium against the French. His father became King George I of England in 1714 and he became Prince of Wales. However his father’s treatment of his mother whom he had imprisoned left son George with a hatred of his father and they regularly quarrelled. He was even put under arrest by his father who excluded him from public ceremonies. When his father died in 1727 he became King George II and set about changing his father’s policies. Walpole was expected to be dismissed but survived on the intervention of Queen Caroline. The death of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI in 1740 led to the European War of Austrian Succession in which the British and Dutch supported Marie Theresa’s claim to the Austrian throne against the Prussians and French. George II personally led his troops at the Battle of Dettingen in 1743, becoming the last British monarch to lead his troops into battle. The Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, in which Charles Edward Stuart (‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’) landed in Scotland and marched with a Highland army into England, was defeated at Culloden in 1746 and Scottish opposition brutally suppressed by George’s second son Prince William, Duke of Cumberland. Like his father he quarrelled with his eldest son Frederick, Prince of Wales, over his marriage but Frederick died suddenly in 1751. The final years of his reign saw George retiring from active politics; however it was a period in which British dominance overseas grew. William Pitt became Prime Minister during the Seven years war against France which spread to India and North America. Robert Clive secured the Indian continent for Britain at the Battle of Plassey, and General Wolfe captured Quebec in Canada. George II died in 1760 of an aneurysm while seated on his water closet. He was succeeded by his grandson also called George.
• To Lady Kathleen: 10 x cousin 10 times removed

George married Caroline Von Brandenburg on 22 Aug 1705 in Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover, Germany. Caroline was born on 1 Mar 1683 in Ansbach, , Bayern, Germany; died on 20 Nov 1737 in St. James Palace, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Prince of Wales Frederrick Louis Hanover was born on 20 Jan 1707 in Hanover, , Niedersachsen, Germany; died on 31 Mar 1751 in Leicester House, St Martin's, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom.

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• Occupation: King of England - reigned 1714 to 1727
• Stories and Notes: He was the son of the first elector of Hanover, Ernest Augustus (1629–1698), and his wife Sophia who was a granddaughter of James I of England. He was heir through his father to the hereditary lay bishopric of Osnabrück and the duchy of Calenberg, which was one part of the Hanoverian possessions of the house of Brunswick. He acquired the other part by his marriage in 1682 to his cousin Sophia Dorothea of Celle. They had two children George (who later became George II) and Sophia (who married Frederick William of Prussia in 1706 and was the mother of Frederick the Great). It was not a happy marriage. George had several mistresses, and his wife Sophia eloped with Swedish Count Philip Konigsmark who in 1694 mysteriously disappeared believed killed with George’s connivance and his body thrown in a river. Sophia was imprisoned in Castle Ahlden in Celle where she remained until she died 30 years later. In England Queen Anne had no surviving children and in 1701 Parliament passed the Act of Settlement to ensure a Protestant line of succession and oppose the claim of the Catholic James Edward Stuart. George’s mother Sophia became heiress to the British throne, but she died in May 1714 a few weeks before Queen Anne so when Anne died in August that year George became King George I of Great Britain. George arrived in England aged 54 speaking only a few words of English, with 18 cooks and two mistresses one very fat and the other thin and tall who became nicknamed ‘Elephant and Castle’ after an area in London. In Hanover he was absolute ruler but in England found that he had to work with Parliament and his Whig ministers particularly Lord Townshend who was dismissed, Earl Stanhope and Robert Walpole. The king grew frustrated in his attempts to control Parliament and more and more dependent upon his advisers as scandal surrounded him; his supporters turned against him, demanding freedom of action as the price of reconciliation. George rarely attended meetings with his ministers, and particularly Walpole became powerful and effectively Britain’s first Prime Minister. Jacobite rebellions in Scotland in 1715 led by Lord Mar, and in 1719 supported by Spanish troops intending to place James Edward Stuart (‘The old Pretender’) on throne found little support and were quickly defeated. The ‘South Sea Bubble’ in which shares in companies were purchased in rash financial speculation before a stock market crash in 1720 left many investors ruined, and George was implicated in the scandal. Walpole’s management of the crisis by rescheduling debts and paying compensation using Government money helped return financial stability. George quarrelled with his son George (a trait inherited by successive Hanoverian kings) and became increasingly unpopular. He spent more and more time in Hanover where he died of a stroke in 1727.
• To Lady Kathleen: 9 x cousin 11 times removed

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Died of a stroke

George married Duchess of Brunswick - Luneburg Sophia Dorothea on 21 Nov 1682 in Castle Chapel, Heidelberg, Germany, and was divorced. Sophia was born on 5 Sep 1666 in Celle Castle, Germany; died on 13 Nov 1726 in Castle of Ahlden, Hanover, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Duchess of Brunswick - Luneburg
• Stories and Notes: Divorced on the grounds of adultery with Count von Knigsmarck and confined in the castle Ahlden for the rest of her life

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• Occupation: Duke of Brunswick-Lunen, 9th Elector of Hanover. Bishop of Osnaburg

Erest married Sophia Wittelsbach on 30 Sep 1658 in Castle Chapel, Heidelberg, Germany. Sophia (daughter of King of Bohemia Frederick Wittelsbach, V and Queen of Bohemia Elizabeth Stuart) was born on 13 Oct 1630 in Wassenaer Court, The Hague, Holland; died on 8 Jun 1714 in Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As : Frederick V of Palatinate
• Occupation: King of Bohemia

Frederick married Queen of Bohemia Elizabeth Stuart on 14 Feb 1613 in Chapel Royal, Whitehall Palace, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom. Elizabeth (daughter of King of England and Scotland James Stuart, I & VI and Anne Oldenburg) was born on 19 Aug 1596 in Dunfermline Palace, Dunfermline, , Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom; died on 13 Feb 1662 in Leicester House, St Martin's, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As : Elizabeth, The Winter Queen
• Occupation: Queen of Bohemia