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H.M.
Queen Caroline

1683-1737

  
 

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  full name:   Wilhelmina Charlotte Caroline
  birth: 1683.03.01 at Ansbach, Germany
  father:   John Frederick, Margrave of Ansbach
  mother:   Eleanor of Saxe-Eisenach
  marriage: 1705.08.22 King George II
at Schloss Herrenhausen, Hanover
  children: 1707 Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales
    1709 Anne, Princess Royal
    1711 Amelia Sophia Eleanor
    1713 Caroline Elizabeth
    1716 son (stillborn)
    1717 George William
    1721 William Augustus (Duke of Cumberland)
    1723 Mary
    1724 Louisa
  death: 1737.11.20 at St. James's Palace, London
(buried: Westminster Abbey, London)
       
       
  Titles, Orders and Awards
     
  Titles:
   
  1714 Princess of Wales
  1727.10.11 Queen
     
  British Empire/Commonwealth Orders and Awards:
   
     
  Foreign Orders and Awards:
   
     
     
   Honorary Military Appointments
   
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   Military Service
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   Other Military Connections
1715 granted her title to The Princess of Wales's Own Regiment of Horse
[redesignated 1727 as "Queen's Own"]
1715 granted her title to The Princess of Wales's Own Regiment of Dragoons
[redesignated 1727 as "Queen's Own"]
1715 granted her title to The Princess of Wales's Own Regiment of Foot
[redesignated 1727 as "Queen's Own"]
   
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