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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 ...
Wilhelmine Caroline of Brandenburg - Ansbach was a daughter of Johann Friedrich, margrave of Brandenburg - Ansbach (d. 1686). She was born at Ansbach on 1 March 1683 and spent her youth primarily at Dresden and Berlin, where she formed a close friendship with Sophie Charlotte (1668-1705), queen of Prussia (from 1701-1705) and wife of Friedrich ...
1 de may. de 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”.
25 de feb. de 2023 · Abstract. This chapter begins with the story of Caroline’s life, the first part of which was spent at the courts of Ansbach, Dresden, Berlin, and finally Hanover as the wife of the Electoral Prince, George Augustus. As Princess of Wales from 1714 and Queen Consort of George II from 1727, Caroline played a crucial dynastic role by producing a ...
Queen Caroline of Ansbach by Christian Friedrich Zincke, RCIN 421820 ©. Widely characterised as the power behind her husband’s throne during her lifetime, it is somewhat surprising to find little evidence of this in the surviving records held in the Royal Archives. Records relating to the Queen Consort comprise no more than a handful, with ...
Wilhelmina Charlotte Caroline von Brandenburg-Ansbach (* 1. März jul. / 11. März 1683 greg. in Ansbach; † 20. November jul. / 1. Dezember 1737 greg. in London) war eine geborene Markgräfin von Brandenburg-Ansbach und als Ehefrau von Georg II. ab 1727 Königin von Großbritannien und Irland sowie Kurfürstin von Hannover.
Caroline of Ansbach married George Augustus, the Electoral Prince of Hanover, the future George II, in 1705. She was seen as a protestant heroine in Britain as she had earlier turned down marriage to the Holy Roman Emperor because she could not bring herself to convert to Catholicism. When he met her, George was immediately struck with her good character and would not think of anybody else ...
