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See also:CAROLINE (1683-1737) , wife of See also:George II., See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Great See also:Britain and See also:Ireland, was a daughter of See also:John See also:Frederick, See also:margrave of See also:Brandenburg-See also:Ansbach (d. 1686). See also:Born at Ansbach on the 1st of See also:March 1683, the princess passed her youth mainly at See also:Dresden and See also:Berlin, where she enjoyed the See also:close friendship of Sophie See also:Charlotte, wife of Frederick I. of See also:Prussia; she married George See also:Augustus, electoral See also:prince of See also:Hanover, in See also:September 1705. The See also:early years of her married See also:life were spent in Hanover. She took a continual See also:interest in the approaching See also:accession of the Hanoverian See also:dynasty to the See also:British See also:throne, was on very friendly terms with the old electress See also:Sophia, and corresponded with See also:Leibnitz, whose acquaintance she had made in Berlin. In See also:October 1714 Caroline followed her See also:husband and her See also:father-in-See also:law, now King George I., to See also:London. As princess of See also:Wales she was accessible and popular, and took the first See also:place at See also:court, filling a difficult position with tact and success. When the See also:quarrel between the prince of Wales and his father was attaining serious proportions, Caroline naturally took the See also:part of her husband, and matters reached a See also:climax in 1717. Driven from court, ostracized by the king, deprived even of the custody of their See also:children, the prince and princess took up their See also:residence in London at See also:Leicester See also:House, and in the See also:country at See also:Richmond. They managed, however, to surround themselves with a distinguished circle; Caroline had a certain See also:taste for literature, and among their attendants and visitors were See also:Lord See also:Chesterfield, See also:Pope, See also:Gay, Lord See also:Hervey and his wife, the beautiful See also:Mary Lepel. A formal reconciliation with George I. took place in 1720.: In October 1727 George II. and his See also:queen were crowned. During the See also:rest of her life Queen Caroline's See also:influence. in See also:English polities was very chiefly exercised in support of See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Walpole; she kept this See also:minister in See also:power, and in See also:control of See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church See also:patron-See also:age. She was exceedingly tolerant, and the bishops appointed by her were remarkable rather for learning than for orthodoxy. During the king's absences from See also:England she was See also:regent of the See also:kingdom on four occasions. On the whole, Caroline's relations with her husband, to whom she See also:bore eight children, were satisfactory. A See also:clever and patient woman, she was very complaisant towards the king, flattering his vanity and acknowledging his mistresses, and she retained her influence over him to the end. She died on the loth of See also:November 1737.
Caroline appears in See also:Scott's See also:Heart of Midlothian ; see also Lord Hervey, See also:Memoirs of the Reign of George II., ed. by J.W. See also:Croker (1884) ;
W. H. See also:Wilkins, Caroline the Illustrious (1904) ; and A. D. See also:Greenwood, Lives of the Hanoverian Queens of England, vol. i. (1909).
End of Article: CAROLINE (1683-1737)
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