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unusual facts about George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont



Albert F. Schoepper

His first White House appearance as conductor in 1942 before King George II of Greece.

Caesar Hawkins

He was the son of the Rev. E. Hawkins and grandson of Sir Cæsar Hawkins, 1st Baronet (1711-1786), Serjeant-Surgeon to George II and George III (see Hawkins baronets); and was brother to Edward Hawkins (1789-1882), Provost of Oriel, Oxford.

Donald Cameron of Lochiel

He had previously given orders to care for the prisoners after Prestonpans, and later he would ensure that Glasgow did not suffer any reprisals for its loyalty to George II.

Dorothea Friederike of Brandenburg-Ansbach

She was a half-sister of Queen Caroline of Great Britain, the wife of King George II

Ernest I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

In 1473, after the death of his father, Ernest inherited the principality of Anhalt-Dessau alongside his younger brothers George II, Sigismund III, and Rudolph IV.

Ernst von Steinberg

He gained his position due to the influence of his cousin, Amalie von Wallmoden, the future Countess of Yarmouth, who was the mistress of George II.

George II, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels

In a joint deed dated 25 June 1535, they awarded the city of Srebrna Góra, which belonged to Münsterberg (Ziębice, Minstrberk), the status of free mining town.

George II, Duke of Pomerania

He died in 1617 in Buckow in his district Rügenwalde and was buried in the Castle Church in Szczecin.

George II of Pomerania (born: 30 January 1582 in Barth; died: 27 March 1617 in Bukowo Morskie in Rügenwalde) was a non-reigning duke of Pomerania.

George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal

He then served Frederick the Great as his ambassador to Spain from 1759 to 1761, informing the Hanoverian government of Spanish preparations to enter the war on France's side, which gained him his pardon by George II on 29 May 1759.

Gurandukht, daughter of George I of Georgia

During Bagrat's exile at the Byzantine court enforced by the rebellion of Liparit IV, Duke of Kldekari, in the 1050s, Gurandukht was "protector" (patroni) of Bagrat's young son George II, who was declared king in Bagrat's absence at Constantinople.

Jack Broughton

Aside from his career in boxing, Broughton also served in the Yeomen of the Guard (the bodyguard of the British monarch), as a member of which he accompanied George II at the Battle of Dettingen, the last time a British monarch fought in a battle.

Johann Philipp von Hattorf

Unlike his predecessor, Hattorf lacked political confidence during the reigns of George I and George II and died quietly in 1837 at Hampton Court, being succeeded in his role by Ernst von Steinberg.

Kingsgate Castle

The name Kingsgate is related to an incidental landing of Charles II on 30 June 1683 (‘gate’ referring to a cliff-gap) though other English monarchs have also used this cove, such as George II in 1748.

Leopold de Rothschild

They resided at Gunnersbury Park, an estate that at one time had been the residence of Princess Amelia, daughter of George II.

Leopold Eberhard, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard

Leopold Eberhard was the eighth and youngest child of Duke George II of Württemberg-Montbéliard by his wife, Comtesse Anne de Coligny.

Nocturnal Revels

Nocturnal Revels is a 1779 two-volume book about prostitution in 18th-century London during the reign of George II.

Oglethorpe Plan

The new Georgia colony was authorized under a grant from George II to a group constituted by Oglethorpe as the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America, or simply the Georgia Trustees.

Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn

HRH Prince Henry was born on 7 November 1745 at Leicester House, London to Frederick, Prince of Wales, son of George II and Caroline of Ansbach, and his wife The Princess of Wales.

The Duke's marriage to a commoner, the widow Anne Horton (or Houghton) (1743–1808), on 2 October 1771 caused a rift with the King, and was the catalyst for the Royal Marriages Act 1772 which forbids any descendant of George II to marry without the monarch's permission.

Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym

She married on 26 June 1823 at Schaumburg Castle, George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1789–1845).

Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington

The delay in raising him to the peerage was due to the hostility of George II, who resented Henley's former support of the Prince of Wales's faction, known as the Leicester House party; and it was in order that he might preside as Lord High Steward at the trial of the Earl Ferrers for murder in 1760 that he then received his patent.

Singlestick

Under Kings George I and George II, backsword play with sticks was immensely popular under the names cudgel-play and singlesticking, not only in the cities but in the countryside as well, wrestling being its only rival.

Stanhope Aspinwall

On 8 August 1752, George II appointed Stanhope Aspinwall as his agent and consul general to Algiers.

William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington

Later in the same year he was appointed Secretary of State for the Northern Department under Sir Robert Walpole, replacing Lord Townshend, but, like George II, he was anxious to assist the emperor Charles VI in his war with France, while Walpole favoured a policy of peace.


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