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Caroline of Ansbach

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Caroline of Ansbach (äns`bäkh), 1683–1737, queen consort of George II George II (George Augustus), 1683–1760, king of Great Britain and Ireland (1727–60), son and successor of George I. Though devoted to Hanover, of which he was elector, George was more active in the English government than his father had been.
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 of England, daughter of the margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. She married George in 1705 while he was electoral prince of Hanover and bore him three sons and five daughters. After his accession (1727) she gave active support to Sir Robert Walpole Walpole, Robert, 1st earl of Orford, 1676–1745, English statesman.

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He was the younger son of a prominent Whig family of Norfolk.
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. Her political influence over the king lasted until her death.


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