Prince George of Denmark
Prince George of Denmark and Norway, Duke of Cumberland, was the husband of Queen Anne, who reigned over Great Britain from 1702 to 1714. His marriage to Anne was arranged in the early 1680s with a view to developing an Anglo-Danish alliance to contain Dutch maritime power. George was unpopular with his Dutch brother-in-law, William III of Orange, who was married to Anne’s elder sister, Mary.
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Prince George of Denmark and Norway, Duke of Cumberland, was the husband of Queen Anne, who reigned over Great Britain from 1702 to 1714. His marriage to Anne was arranged in the early 1680s with a view to developing an Anglo-Danish alliance to contain Dutch maritime power. As a result, George was unpopular with his Dutch brother-in-law, William III of Orange, who was married to Anne’s elder sister, Mary. William excluded George from active military service, and neither George nor Anne wielded any great influence until after the deaths of Mary and then William, at which point Anne became queen. George died aged 55 from a recurring and chronic lung disease, much to the devastation of his wife, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey. George was not ambitious, and hoped to live a quiet life of domesticity with his wife. He wrote to a friend: ‘We talk here of going to Winchester, going to tea, and everything else except sitting all summer, which was the height of my ambition’ George was hosted by Charles II in London in 1669, but Anne had been in France at the time of George’s visit. George’s staunch Lutheranism was a barrier to election in Roman Catholic Poland, and John Sobieski was chosen instead. In 1677, George served with distinction with his elder brother Christian in the Scanian War against Sweden, and George rescued him at the Battle of Landskrona. George received a £10,000 a year allowance from his Danish estates, although his late or incomplete estates were still incomplete or incomplete.
George and Anne were married in the Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace, London, on 28 July 1683. The guests included King Henry II, Queen of York and the Duke and Duchess of York, while Anne was voted a parliamentary allowance of £20,000 per year. The couple had a son, William, who died at the age of 11 in 1714, and a daughter, Mary, who became Queen of Great Britain in 1715. George is buried in London’s Westminster Abbey, along with his brother Christian V of Denmark, and his sister Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg. He was the younger son of Frederick III, King of Danish and Norway. George had a brother, Christian V, who inherited the Danish throne in 1670, but died in 1674. George travelled through Germany again in 1672–73, to visit two of his sisters, Anna Sophia and Wilhelmine Ernestine, who were married to the electoral princes of Saxony and the Palatinate. George was a candidate for the Polish elective throne, for which he was backed by King Louis XIV of France. He had never met Anne, and had never been to France, but she was in France when he visited her in 1668. Anne’s uncle Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, and the English Secretary of State for the Northern Department, Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, negotiated a marriage treaty with the Danes.
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