Caroline of Great Britain
1713 – 1757 · Generation XXX · House of Hanover
Caroline of Great Britain (1713–1757). The fourth child and third daughter of George II and Caroline of Ansbach, she was born at Herrenhausen in Hanover and brought to London as an infant when her grandfather became George I in 1714. Her mother, whose favourite she was, had her inoculated against smallpox in 1722. Her candour earned her the name “the truth-telling Caroline Elizabeth,” and when the royal children quarrelled their parents would send for her to learn what had really happened. Her unhappiness was commonly blamed on feelings for Lord Hervey, a courtier who already had a wife; after his death in 1743 she withdrew into seclusion at St James’s Palace, receiving only relatives and intimate friends and giving liberally to charitable causes. She died there, unmarried, in 1757 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, praised even by Horace Walpole, who called himself no royalist.
Place in the family
- Caroline of Great Britain was a great-great-aunt of Queen Victoria.
- Caroline of Great Britain was the fourth 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 → Caroline 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)
- Amelia of Great Britain (1711 – 1786)
- 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)