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On This Day In Royal History . 30 August 1727 . Princess Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is created Princess Royal. . ◼ Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (born.2 November 1709 – died.12 January 1759) was the second child & eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain & his consort, Caroline of Ansbach. . ◼ She was the spouse of William IV, Prince of Orange, the first hereditary stadtholder of the Netherlands. Princess Anne was the second daughter of a British sovereign to hold the title Princess Royal, a title which had fallen from use since its creation by Charles I for his daughter Mary, Princess of Orange in 1642. . ◼ She was Regent of the Netherlands from 1751 until her death in 1759, exercising extensive powers on behalf of her son William V. Because of her English upbringing & family connections, she was known as an Anglophile - despite being unable to convince the Dutch Republic to enter the Seven Years' War on the side of the British. . ◼ Princess Anne, Maryland in the United States is named for her. . ◼ Portrait: Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange by Johann Valentin Tischbein, 1753 . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1727 #PrincessAnne #PrincessRoyal #HouseofHanover #Royalty #History #Princess #RoyaltyinArt #PrincessofOrange #BritishMonarchy #D30Aug #royals #Royal #Royalty #OnThisDay #RoyalHistory #Instahistory #Monarchy #Thebritishmonarchy #britishroyalty (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1y7n7Wgf_7/?igshid=1eptiabcko25d

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On This Day In History . 11 June 1727 . King George II accession . . ◼ George I died on 11 June 1727 during one of his visits to Hanover, & George II succeeded him as king & elector of Hanover at the age of 43. . ◼ The new king decided not to travel to Germany for his father's funeral, which far from bringing criticism led to praise from the English who considered it proof of his fondness for England. . ◼  He suppressed his father's will because it attempted to split the Hanoverian succession between George II's future grandsons rather than vest all the domains (both in Britain & Hanover) in a single person. Both British & Hanoverian ministers considered the will unlawful, as George I did not have the legal power to determine the succession personally. Critics supposed that George II hid the will to avoid paying out his father's legacies. . ◼ George II was crowned at Westminster Abbey on 11 October 1727. The composer George Frideric Handel was commissioned to write four new anthems for the coronation, including Zadok the Priest. . ◼  During the War of the Austrian Succession, George participated at the Battle of Dettingen in 1743, & thus became the last British monarch to lead an army in battle. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1727 #d11jun #GeorgeII #KingGeorgeII #History #HouseofHanover #BritishMonarchy #Royalhistory #historyfacts #Royalfamily #Historic #Theking #Hanoverian (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BylcXkRgIZz/?igshid=tl1vdck47mkw

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On This Day In History . 11 June 1727 . King George I died . . 👑 The King suffered a stroke on the road between Delden & Nordhorn on 9 June 1727, & was taken by carriage to the Prince-Bishop's palace at Osnabrück where he died in the early hours of 11 June 1727. . 👑 He was buried in the chapel of Leine Castle but his remains were moved to the chapel at Herrenhausen after World War II. . 👑 George was succeeded by his son, George Augustus, who took the throne as George II . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1727 #GeorgeI #KingGeorgeI #GeorgeIofGreatBritain #King #HouseofHanover #Royalty #Monarch #Monarchy #History #RoyaltyinArt #Britain #BritishMonarchy #d11jun #hanoverian #Royalhistory #historyfacts #Osnabrück (at Osnabrück, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/BylbFNuAt1h/?igshid=65qip44v4b0u