Caroline of Ansbach Caroline of Ansbach Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach (Wilhelmina Charlotte Caroline; 1 March 1683 – 20 November 1737) was Queen of Great Britain as the wife of King George II. Her father, Margrave John Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach, belonged to a branch of the House of Hohenzollern and was the ruler of a small German state, the Principality of Ansbach. Caroline was orphaned at a young age and moved to the enlightened court of her guardians, King Frederick I and Queen Sophia Charlotte of Prussia. At the Prussian court, her previously limited education was widened, and she adopted the liberal outlook possessed by
Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess in Saxony (24 June 1735 – 18 February 1791) was a princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld by birth and through marriage the last Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Bayreuth. Frederica Caroline was the fifth child and youngest daughter of Franz Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1700–1780), daughter of Louis Frederick I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. On 22 November 1754 in Coburg, she married Margrave Karl Alexander of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Bayreuth (1736-1806). The marriage was concluded for dynastic reasons. Although Frederica Caroline was considered virtuous, gentle, charitable and devout,