Caroline Frederick Scott Britain before the House of Hanover had succeeded to the British throne. Captain Scott’s godmother, who he was named after, was Princess Caroline of Ansbach who as the wife of George II of Great Britain would become Queen Caroline and the mother of Prince William, Duke of Cumberland. Scott was commissioned in the Royal North British Dragoons before transferring to the Guise's 6th Regiment in 1741. Scott had seen service in Europe where he had served as a military engineer in Gibraltar. He first came to prominence as the commander of Fort William in the Scottish Highlands and his successful
Coronation of the British monarch on Christmas Day, possibly in imitation of the Byzantine emperors, and John's was on Ascension Day. Elizabeth I consulted her astrologer, John Dee, before deciding on an auspicious date. The coronations of Charles II in 1661 and Anne in 1702 were on St George's Day, the feast of the patron saint of England. Under the Hanoverian monarchs in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it was deemed appropriate to extend the waiting period to several months, following a period of mourning for the previous monarch and to allow time for preparation of the ceremony. In the case of every monarch