See also:CAROLINE (1683-1737)
, wife of See also:George II., See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Great See also:Britain and See also:Ireland, was a daughter of See also:John See also:Frederick, See also:margrave of See also:Brandenburg-See also:Ansbach (d
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1686)
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See also:Born at Ansbach on the 1st of See also:March 1683, the princess passed her youth mainly at See also:Dresden and See also:Berlin, where she enjoyed the See also:close friendship of Sophie See also:Charlotte, wife of Frederick I. of See also:Prussia; she married George See also:Augustus, electoral See also:prince of See also:Hanover, in See also:September 1705
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The See also:early years of her married See also:life were spent in Hanover
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She took a continual See also:interest in the approaching See also:accession of the Hanoverian See also:dynasty to the See also:British See also:throne, was on very friendly terms with the old electress See also:Sophia, and corresponded with See also:Leibnitz, whose acquaintance she had made in Berlin
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In See also:October 1714 See also:Caroline followed her See also:husband and her See also:father-in-See also:law, now King George I., to See also:London
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As princess of See also:Wales she was accessible and popular, and took the first See also:place at See also:court, filling a difficult position with tact and success
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When the See also:quarrel between the prince of Wales and his father was attaining serious proportions, Caroline naturally took the See also:part of her husband, and matters reached a See also:climax in 1717
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Driven from court, ostracized by the king, deprived even of the custody of their See also:children, the prince and princess took up their See also:residence in London at See also:Leicester See also:House, and in the See also:country at See also:Richmond
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They managed, however, to surround themselves with a distinguished circle; Caroline had a certain See also:taste for literature, and among their attendants and visitors were See also:Lord See also:Chesterfield, See also:Pope, See also:Gay, Lord See also:Hervey and his wife, the beautiful See also:Mary Lepel
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A formal reconciliation with George I. took place in 1720.: In October 1727 George II. and his See also:queen were crowned
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During the See also:rest of her life Queen Caroline's See also:influence. in See also:English polities was very chiefly exercised in support of See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Walpole; she kept this See also:minister in See also:power, and in See also:control of See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church See also:patron-See also:age
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She was exceedingly tolerant, and the bishops appointed by her were remarkable rather for learning than for orthodoxy
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During the king's absences from See also:England she was See also:regent of the See also:kingdom on four occasions
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On the whole, Caroline's relations with her husband, to whom she See also:bore eight children, were satisfactory
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A See also:clever and patient woman, she was very complaisant towards the king, flattering his vanity and acknowledging his mistresses, and she retained her influence over him to the end
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She died on the loth of See also:November 1737
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Caroline appears in See also:Scott's See also:Heart of Midlothian ; see also Lord Hervey, See also:Memoirs of the Reign of George II., ed. by J.W
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See also:Croker (1884) ;
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See also:Wilkins, Caroline the Illustrious (1904) ; and A
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See also:Greenwood, Lives of the Hanoverian Queens of England, vol. i
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(1909)
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