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George was born on 28 May 1660 in the city of Hanover in the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg in the Holy Roman Empire. [b] He was the eldest son of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and his wife, Sophia of the Palatinate. Sophia was the granddaughter of King James I of England, through her mother, Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia. [3]
There have been 13 British monarchs since the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707. England and Scotland had been in personal union since 24 March 1603; while the style, "King of Great Britain" first arose at that time, legislatively the title came into force in 1707.
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In 1016 Cnut the Great, a Dane, was the first to call himself "King of England". In the Norman period "King of the English" remained standard, with occasional use of "King of England" or Rex Anglie. From John's reign onwards all other titles were eschewed in favour of "King" or "Queen of England".
George II of Great Britain (1683–1760), King of Great Britain from 1727; George III (1738–1820), King of Great Britain and later the United Kingdom from 1760; George IV (1762–1830), King of the United Kingdom from 1820; George V (1865–1936), King of the United Kingdom from 1910; George VI (1895–1952), King of the United Kingdom from 1936
Sophia Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle (15 September 1666 – 13 November 1726) was the repudiated wife of future King George I of Great Britain.The union with George, her first cousin, was a marriage of state, arranged by her father George William, her father-in-law the Elector of Hanover, and her mother-in-law, Electress Sophia of Hanover, first cousin of King Charles II of England.
George V of the United Kingdom (1865–1936), King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1910–1927, King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1927–1936 George VI of the United Kingdom (1895–1952), King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1936–1952, father of Elizabeth II
In contrast, Frederick's mother Sophia, whose father, George Louis of Brunswick-Lüneburg, had succeeded to the British throne as King George I in 1714, was polite, charismatic and learned. [7] The political and personal differences between Frederick's parents created tensions, [ 8 ] which affected Frederick's attitude toward culture, his role ...