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Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach (Wilhelmina Charlotte Caroline; 1 March 1683 – 20 November 1737) was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Electress of Hanover from 11 June 1727 until her death in 1737 as the wife of King George II.
Guglielmina Carlotta Carolina di Brandeburgo-Ansbach (Ansbach, 1º marzo 1683 – St. James's, 20 novembre 1737) comunemente nota come Carolina di Ansbach, fu regina consorte di Gran Bretagna e di Irlanda, come moglie di Giorgio II.
Carolina di Brandeburgo-Ansbach è stata una figura influente nella storia britannica. Nata il 1 marzo 1683, Carolina è diventata regina consorte di Giorgio II nel 1727, dopo un matrimonio che ha consolidato le relazioni tra la Gran Bretagna e la Germania.
In the autumn of 1704, the twenty-one-year-old Princess Caroline of Ansbach met Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who was visiting Sophie Charlotte and her mother Sophie (1630-1714), the electress of Hanover, at Sophie Charlotte's palace at Lützenburg (later, Charlottenburg) outside Berlin.
Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach was the wife of King George II of Great Britain (reigned 1727–60). Beautiful and intelligent, she exercised an influence over her husband that was decisive in establishing and maintaining Sir Robert Walpole as prime minister (1730–42).
Queen Caroline of Great Britain (1683-1737) Caroline was the daughter of John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, who died when she was three. Her mother, Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach married again (twice) but died when Caroline was thirteen.
Caroline von Brandenburg-Ansbach, the first Hannoverian on the English throne, must have been an impressive person. Although only »Queen Consort«, she had a major influence on English politics and earned much respect for herself and the Guelph Dynasty, which was at first quite unpopular in England.
