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2 de jun. de 2020 · The summer of 2020 marks 200 years since ‘The Queen Caroline Affair’. This unprecedented episode in British history saw Queen Caroline, the estranged wife and consort of George IV, put on trial for adultery in the House of Lords. As well as marking a milestone in parliamentary and royal history, it was also an important chapter in the ...
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). Beautiful and intelligent, she exercised an influence over her husband that was decisive in establishing and maintaining Sir Robert Walpole as ...
Interment of Queen Caroline in the family vault at Brunswick. On this day (25 August) in 1821, the funeral of Queen Caroline, George’s estranged wife, took place in the cathedral of her hometown of Brunswick, Germany. Caroline had died in Hammersmith on 7 August 1821 aged 53, just three weeks after George’s coronation.
17 de mar. de 2022 · Caroline refused to take Lord Hood’s ticket and enter alone. Queen Caroline shouted, “The Queen! Open!” and the pages opened the door. “I am the Queen of England!” she remonstrated, to which an official roared at the pages, “Do your duty… shut the door!” The door to Westminster Abbey was slammed in Caroline’s face.
The coronation of George II and his wife Caroline as King and Queen of Great Britain and Ireland took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on 11/22 O.S./N.S. October 1727. [1] For the coronation, George Frideric Handel was commissioned to write four new coronation anthems, one of which, Zadok the Priest, has been sung at British coronations ever ...
22 de jun. de 2021 · Queen Charlotte was born a German princess far away from the British crown. She came into the world on May 19, 1744, as Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, a northern German territory that at the time was part of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1761, when she turned 17, Princess Sophia was betrothed — rather unexpectedly — to the King of ...
Caroline was a great supporter of science and medicine, and was one of the first Westerners to have her children innoculated against smallpox. Perversely, despite her pioneering role in public ...
