George II of Great Britain

George II was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of BrunswickLneburg and Princeelector of the Holy Roman Empire fromJune 1727 until his death.

George was the last British monarch born outside Great Britain he was born and brought up in northern Germany. His grandmother, Sophia of Hanover, became second in line to the British throne after about fifty Catholics higher in line were excluded by the Act of Settlement 1701 and the Acts of Union 1707, which restricted the succession to Protestants. After the deaths of Sophia and Anne, Queen of Great Britain, in 1714, his father George I, Elector of Hanover, inherited the British throne. In the first years of his fathers reign as king, George was associated with opposition politicians, until they rejoined the governing party in 1720.

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