Louise of Great Britain
1724 – 1751 · Generation XXX · Queen consort of Denmark and Norway · House of Hanover
Louise of Great Britain (1724–1751). Queen consort of Denmark and Norway. Married Frederick V of Denmark in 1743. The youngest child of George II and Caroline of Ansbach, she lost her mother at twelve and was brought up largely by her elder sister Caroline. Her marriage to Crown Prince Frederick was a political bargain, struck because British ministers wanted Danish support; she was married by proxy in Hanover and first met her husband at Altona a week later. They got on well enough, though he never gave up his mistresses. In Copenhagen she won real affection by learning Danish and speaking it with her children at a largely German-speaking court, and as queen from 1746 she helped make the palace festive again, inviting Pietro Mingotti’s Italian opera company, whose members included Gluck, and a French theatre troupe. Pregnant with her sixth child, she was struck by a trapped umbilical hernia and died despite surgery, the day after her twenty-seventh birthday. She was buried in Roskilde Cathedral.
Place in the family
- Louise of Great Britain was a great-great-aunt of Queen Victoria.
- Louise of Great Britain was the youngest 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 → Louise 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)
- 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)
Partners
- Married Frederick V of Denmark (1723 – 1766) in 1743
Life
- 1724 — Born
- 1743 — Married Frederick V of Denmark
- 1751 — Died