Caroline of Ansbach
Queen consort of Great Britain and Ireland from 1727 to 1737
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She ran Britain four times while her husband toured Hanover, and the opposition knew it — Caroline of Ansbach turned the consort's role into a shadow premiership, keeping Walpole in power and the Hanoverian throne steady through a decade of instability.
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Born into a small German principality in 1683, Caroline was orphaned young and raised at the Prussian court of Sophia Charlotte, who gave her an education and a liberal outlook rare for royal women. She turned down a Habsburg archduke to marry George Augustus, heir to Hanover and third in line for the English throne. After moving to Britain in 1714, she and her husband became the focal point of opposition to his father, George I — a rift that saw them expelled from court in 1717 until Walpole brokered a public reconciliation. When George Augustus became king in 1727, Caroline became the true a…
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