Caroline of Ansbach
died in 1737 at St
James's Palace. She had married the future George
II in 1705 and became queen on his accession in 1727. Her grandson
succeeded to the throne as George III. She is buried in Westminster
Abbey.
In 1751 George
II's eldest son Frederick Louis,
Prince of Wales died of pneumonia at Leicester
House and so it was his son who was crowned George
III in 1760. Frederick
is buried in Westminster
Abbey.
Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
married George
III at St
James's Palace in 1761. She was queen until her death in 1818
at Kew
Palace
in Surrey and had given birth to the future George IV in 1762 and
William IV in 1765 and was the grandmother of Queen Victoria.
Caroline of Brunswick
died at Hammersmith in London in 1821 shortly after her husband's
Coronation as George
IV. She was buried in Brunswick. She had married her cousin the
Prince of Wales in 1795, but after the birth of Princess Charlotte
in 1796 they lived separately.
Adelaide
of Saxe-Meiningen died in 1849 at Bentley
Priory, Stanmore (then in Middlesex). She was queen to William
IV from 1830 until his death in 1837 and is buried in St
George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.