Amelia of Great Britain
1711 – 1786 · Generation XXX · House of Hanover
Amelia of Great Britain (1711–1786). The second daughter of the future George II and Caroline of Ansbach, she was born at Herrenhausen and came to England in 1714 when her grandfather took the British throne. A sickly child, she was inoculated against smallpox in 1722 at her progressive mother’s wish. Years of talks to marry her to her cousin Frederick of Prussia came to nothing, and a French match was blocked because it would have required her to turn Catholic. She never married, living with her father until his death in 1760; she loved riding and hunting, and Lady Pomfret thought her very odd, if honest. As ranger of Richmond Park from 1751 she closed it to the public until a brewer won back the right of way in court in 1758. She died in Cavendish Square, the last of George II’s children, with a miniature of Frederick the Great on her body.
Place in the family
- Amelia of Great Britain was a great-great-aunt of Queen Victoria.
- Amelia of Great Britain was the third of 8 children of King George II and Caroline of Ansbach recorded in this archive.
One of 35 people of House of Hanover (from 1700) in this archive. Called from Germany by the Act of Settlement; the Georges, then Victoria.
Line of descent: Owen Tudor → Edmund Tudor → King Henry VII → Margaret Tudor → King James V of Scotland → Mary Queen of Scots → King James I → Elizabeth Stuart → Sophia of Hanover → King George I → King George II → Amelia of Great Britain.
Parents
- King George II (1683 – 1760)
- Caroline of Ansbach (1683 – 1737)
Siblings
- Frederick Prince of Wales (1707 – 1751)
- Anne Princess Royal (1709 – 1759)
- Caroline of Great Britain (1713 – 1757)
- George William of Great Britain (1717 – 1718)
- William Augustus Duke of Cumberland (1721 – 1765)
- Mary of Great Britain (1723 – 1772)
- Louise of Great Britain (1724 – 1751)