Biography of Caroline Matilda Hanover Queen Consort Denmark and Norway 1751-1775

On 08 May 1736 [her father] Frederick Louis Hanover Prince of Wales (age 29) and [her mother] Augusta Saxe Coburg Altenburg (age 16) were married. She the daughter of Frederick Saxe Coburg Altenburg II Duke Saxe Gotha Altenburg 1676-1732 and . He the son of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland (age 52) and Caroline Hohenzollern Queen Consort England (age 53).

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On 11 Jul 1751 Caroline Matilda Hanover Queen Consort Denmark and Norway was born to Frederick Louis Hanover Prince of Wales and Augusta Saxe Coburg Altenburg (age 31). She a granddaughter of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland.

Death of Frederick V of Denmark

On 14 Jan 1766 Frederick V King Denmark and Norway 1723-1766 (age 42) died. His son [her future husband] Christian VII King Denmark and Norway 1749-1808 (age 16) succeeded VII King Denmark and Norway.

On 30 Aug 1766 Charles Hesse-Kassel (age 21) and [her future sister-in-law] Louise Oldenburg (age 16) were married at Christiansborg Castle. She the daughter of Frederick V King Denmark and Norway 1723-1766 and Louise Hanover Queen Consort Denmark and Norway 1724-1751. He the son of Frederick Hesse-Kassel (age 46) and Mary Hanover 1723-1772 (age 43). They were first cousins. He a grandson of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland. She a granddaughter of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland.

On 08 Nov 1766 Christian VII King Denmark and Norway 1749-1808 (age 17) and Caroline Matilda Hanover Queen Consort Denmark and Norway (age 15) were married at Christiansborg Castle. She by marriage Queen Consort Denmark and Norway. She the daughter of Frederick Louis Hanover Prince of Wales and Augusta Saxe Coburg Altenburg (age 46). He the son of Frederick V King Denmark and Norway 1723-1766 and Louise Hanover Queen Consort Denmark and Norway 1724-1751. They were first cousins. He a grandson of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland. She a granddaughter of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland.

On 28 Jan 1768 [her son] Frederick VI King Denmark and Norway 1768-1839 was born to [her husband] Christian VII King Denmark and Norway 1749-1808 (age 18) and Caroline Matilda Hanover Queen Consort Denmark and Norway (age 16). He a great grandson of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland. Coefficient of inbreeding 6.66%.

On 07 Jul 1771 [her daughter] Louise Auguste possible father Johann Friedrich Struensee Oldenburg Duchess Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Augustenburg 1771-1843 was born to [her husband] Christian VII King Denmark and Norway 1749-1808 (age 22) and Caroline Matilda Hanover Queen Consort Denmark and Norway (age 19). She a great granddaughter of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland. Coefficient of inbreeding 6.66%.

The Early Diaries of Frances Burney May 1775. Mr. Jones, a Welsh harper, a silly young man, was also present. We had a great deal of conversation in parties, before the Concert began. I had the satisfaction to sit next to Mr. Harris (age 62), who is very cheerful and communicative, and his conversation was instructive and agreeable58.5. Mr. Jones, the harper, began the Concert. He has a fine instrument of Merlin's construction; he plays with great neatness and delicacy; but as expression must have meaning, he does not abound in that commodity. After him, at the request of the Baronness Deiden, Mr. Burney went to the harpsichord. He played with his usual successful velocity and his usual applause. When he had received the compliments of the nobility and gentry, my father begged the Baronness to take his place; but she would not at first hear of it. She said in French, which she almost always speaks, that it was quite out of the question; and that it would be like a figurante's dancing after Heinel59.1. However, Miss Phipps joined so warmly in my father's request, that she was at length prevailed with. The character she has acquired of being the first of lady harpsichord players, as far as I have heard or can judge, is well merited. She has a great deal of execution and fire, and plays with much meaning. She is, besides, extremely modest and unconscious. She declared she had never been so much frightened before in her life59.2. When she had played a Lesson of Schobert's, my father asked her for another German composition, which he had heard her play at Lord Mulgrave's. She was going very obligingly to comply, when the Baron Deiden, looking at my sister, said, "Mais après, ma chère." "Eh bien!" cried Miss Phipps, "après Mrs. Burney."

Note 58.5. James Harris, of Salisbury (age 62), was nephew to that Earl of Shaftesbury who wrote "The Characteristics." He was First Lord of the Admiralty in 1762; a Lord of the Treasury afterwards. Dr. Johnson said that he was "a sound, solid scholar," but "a prig, and a bad prig," and "a coxcomb," who "did not understand his own system" in his own book, called "Hermes, an inquiry concerning universal grammar." We here see him in his pleasant, social aspect. Dr. Burney ranks him as a writer on music, in virtue of his three "Treatises on Art, Music, and History," 1774. When Mr. Harris took his seat in the House of Commons, Charles Townsend said to his next neighbour,-" Who is this man?"-" Who? why Harris that wrote one book about Grammar, and another about Virtue."-" What does he come here for? He will find neither Grammar nor Virtue here."

Note 59.1. Horace Walpole to Lord Strafford, August 25, 1771: "There is a finer dancer" (than Mlle. Guimard) "whom Mr. Hobart is to transport to London; a Mlle. Heinel or Ingle, a Fleming. She is tall, perfectly made, very handsome, and has a set of attitudes copied from the classics; she moves as gracefully slow as Pygmalion's statue when it was coming to life." She filled a before-deserted Opera House. The manager, Mr. Hobart, paid her six hundred pounds for the season, and the Maccaroni Club" complimented her with a regale of six hundred more."

Note 59.2. According to Horace Walpole, the Baron and Baroness Deiden were not personce gratis at the Court of St. James; being sent to England after the imprisonment of [her brother] George III's (age 33) sister, Caroline Matilda, Queen of (age 20) Denmark. They were moved to the Papal Court, where Miss Berry met them a little later.

On 08 Feb 1772 [her mother] Augusta Saxe Coburg Altenburg (age 52) died at Cartlon House.

On 10 May 1775 Caroline Matilda Hanover Queen Consort Denmark and Norway (age 23) died.

On 13 Mar 1808 [her former husband] Christian VII King Denmark and Norway 1749-1808 (age 59) died. His son [her son] Frederick VI King Denmark and Norway 1768-1839 (age 40) succeeded VI King Denmark and Norway. Marie Sophie Hesse-Kassel Queen Consort Denmark and Norway 1767-1852 (age 40) by marriage Queen Consort Denmark and Norway.

Family Trees of Caroline Matilda Hanover Queen Consort Denmark and Norway 1751-1775

Paternal Family Tree: Hanover

Maternal Family Tree: Magdalena Augusta Anhalt Zerbst Anhaltzerbst Duchess Saxe Gotha Altenburg

Royal Ancestors of Caroline Matilda Hanover Queen Consort Denmark and Norway 1751-1775

Kings Wessex: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd 1100-1170

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 24 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys 1047-1132

Kings England: Grand Daughter of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland

Kings Scotland: Great x 14 Grand Daughter of Robert "The Bruce" I King Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 17 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 11 Grand Daughter of Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France

Royal Descendants of Caroline Matilda Hanover Queen Consort Denmark and Norway 1751-1775

Frederick VI King Denmark and Norway 1768-1839 x 1

Caroline Amalie Oldenburg Queen Norway 1796-1881 x 1

Sophia Glücksburg Queen Consort Spain 1938- x 1

Constantine II King Hellenes 1940- x 1

Carl XVI King Sweden 1946- x 1

Ancestors of Caroline Matilda Hanover Queen Consort Denmark and Norway 1751-1775

Great x 2 Grandfather: Ernest Augustus Hanover Elector Brunswick-Lüneburg 1629-1698 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Landgrave Louis V of Hesse-Darmstadt 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Eleonore Hesse Darmstadt Duchess Brunswick-Lüneburg 1601-1659 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: King George I of Great Britain and Ireland Great Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland

Great x 4 Grandfather: Frederick IV Elector Palatine 1574-1610 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Frederick Palatinate Simmern V Elector Palatine Rhine 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Electress Louise Juliana of the Palatine Rhine 1576-1644 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Sophia Palatinate Simmern Grand Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland

Great x 4 Grandfather: King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 3 Grandmother: Princess Elizabeth Stewart Queen Bohemia Daughter of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne of Denmark Queen Consort Scotland England and Ireland 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

GrandFather: King George II of Great Britain and Ireland Son of King George I of Great Britain and Ireland

Great x 2 Grandfather: George Wilhelm Hanover Duke Brunswick-Lüneburg 1624-1705 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Landgrave Louis V of Hesse-Darmstadt 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Eleonore Hesse Darmstadt Duchess Brunswick-Lüneburg 1601-1659 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Sophia Dorothea Hanover Queen Consort England 1666-1726 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 2 Grandmother:

Father: Frederick Louis Hanover Prince of Wales Son of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: John George Hohenzollern Margrave of Brandenburg 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Joachim Ernst Hohenzollern 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Albert Hohenzollern 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: John Frederick Hohenzollern 14 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

GrandMother: Caroline Hohenzollern Queen Consort England 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Caroline Matilda Hanover Queen Consort Denmark and Norway 1751-1775 Grand Daughter of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: Johann Wilhelm Wettin Duke Saxe Weimar 1530-1573 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Johann Wettin II Duke Saxe Weimar 1570-1605 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandmother:

Great x 2 Grandfather: Ernest "The Pious" Saxe Gotha I Duke Saxe Gotha 1601-1675 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Dorothea Maria Anhalt

Great x 1 Grandfather: Frederick Saxe Coburg Altenburg I Duke Saxe Gotha Altenburg 1646-1691 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Friedrich Wilhelm Wettin I Duke Saxe Weimar 1562-1602 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Johann Philipp Wettin Duke Saxe Altenburg 1597-1639 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anna Maria Countess Palatine of Neuburg 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elisabeth Sophie Saxe Altenburg Duchess Saxe Gotha 1619-1680 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Julius Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Oldenburg 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

GrandFather: Frederick Saxe Coburg Altenburg II Duke Saxe Gotha Altenburg 1676-1732 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Christian Wettin I Elector Saxony 1560-1591 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John George Wettin Elector Saxony 1585-1656 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Augustus Duke of Saxe Weissenfels 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Duchess Magdalena Sibylle of Saxe Gotha Altenburg 1648-1681 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Duke John VII of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Duke Adolphus Frederick I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Sophia Oldenburg 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Count Enno III of East Frisia

Great x 3 Grandmother: Anna Maria of Ostfriesland 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anna of Holstein-Gottorp 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Mother: Augusta Saxe Coburg Altenburg 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

GrandMother: