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Feb 1, 2023 · The House of Hanover is a royal house that first ruled Hanover and then Great Britain from 1714 to 1901. The British Hanoverians began with George I when he succeeded the last of the Stuart monarchs, Queen Anne of Great Britain (r. 1702-1714), who had no children. George was Anne's nearest Protestant relative.
James I, King of Great Britain (1566-1625) [James VI of Scotland and I of England] Anne of Denmark, Queen of Great Britain (1574-1619) Prince Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594-1612) Charles I, King of Great Britain (1600-49) Henrietta Maria, Queen of Great Britain (1609-69) Charles II, King of Great Britain (1630-85) James II, King of ...
Jun 10, 2024 · George III (born June 4 [May 24, Old Style], 1738, London—died January 29, 1820, Windsor Castle, near London) was the king of Great Britain and Ireland (1760–1820) and elector (1760–1814) and then king (1814–20) of Hanover, during a period when Britain won an empire in the Seven Years’ War but lost its American colonies and then, after the struggle against Revolutionary and ...
When he heard that he was now King of Great Britain, George knew that his leisurely life in Hanover was about to end. His response was shocking. Instead of taking up a kingly persona, George partied hard all across mainland Europe. Even worse, his rakish ways (plus some bad weather) made him months late for his debut in his new kingdom.
After the deaths of both his mother, and his second cousin Anne, Queen of Great Britain, in 1714, George took the British throne as Anne's closest living Protestant relative. During George's reign, Britain began transitioning into a modern system of a cabinet government led by a prime minister, and the powers of the monarchy started to diminish.
Jun 13, 2024 · George II (November 10 1683 – October 25 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death in 1760. As king, George exercised little control over British domestic policy, which was largely controlled by the Parliament of Great Britain.
The American war, its political aftermath and family anxieties placed great strain on George in the 1780s. After serious bouts of illness in 1788-89 and again in 1801, George became permanently deranged in 1810. He was mentally unfit to rule in the last decade of his reign; his eldest son - the later George IV - acted as Prince Regent from 1811.
