Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange

Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange

Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (2 November [O.S. 22 October] 1709 – 12 January 1759) was the second child and eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain and his consort Caroline of Ansbach. She was the wife of William IV, Prince of Orange, the first hereditary stadtholder of all seven provinces of the Northern Netherlands. She was Regent of the Netherlands from 1751 until her death in 1759, exercising extensive powers on behalf of her son William V. She was known as an Anglophile, due to her English upbringing and family connections, but was unable to convince the Dutch Republic to enter the Seven Years' War on the side of the British. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange has received more than 377,531 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange is the 4,278th most popular politician (down from 3,261st in 2019), the 1,163rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 901st in 2019) and the 351st most popular Politician.

Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange is most famous for being the daughter of King James II and Queen Mary II.