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Caroline of Brunswick

1768 - 1821

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Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (Caroline Amelia Elizabeth; 17 May 1768 – 7 August 1821) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Queen of Hanover from 29 January 1820 until her death in 1821 as the estranged wife of King George IV. She was Princess of Wales from 1795 to 1820. The daughter of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, and Princess Augusta of Great Britain, Caroline was engaged in 1794 to her cousin George, Prince of Wales, whom she had never met. He was already illegally married to Maria Fitzherbert. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Caroline of Brunswick has received more than 2,134,821 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Caroline of Brunswick is the 3,147th most popular politician (up from 3,877th in 2019), the 844th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,063rd in 2019) and the 233rd most popular German Politician.

Caroline of Brunswick is most famous for being the wife of King George IV.

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  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Caroline of Brunswick ranks 3,147 out of 19,576. Before her are Louis II of Anjou, Polyxena, Maurice, Elector of Saxony, Gladwyn Jebb, Emperor Zhezong, and Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. After her are Ladislaus III of Hungary, Abbas III, Edda Mussolini, Éamon de Valera, Milan Rastislav Štefánik, and Roman the Great.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1768, Caroline of Brunswick ranks 10. Before her are François-René de Chateaubriand, Charlotte Corday, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Frederick VI of Denmark, Karađorđe, and Louis Desaix. After her are Lazare Hoche, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Tecumseh, Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise, Nakşidil Sultan, and Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom. Among people deceased in 1821, Caroline of Brunswick ranks 4. Before her are Napoleon, John Keats, and Joseph de Maistre. After her are John William Polidori, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, Franz Karl Achard, Johann Jacob Schweppe, William I, Elector of Hesse, Tudor Vladimirescu, Gregory V of Constantinople, and Jean Rapp.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Caroline of Brunswick ranks 844 out of 7,253. Before her are Friedrich Mohs (1773), Felix Magath (1953), Johann Deisenhofer (1943), Hugo Junkers (1859), Maurice, Elector of Saxony (1521), and Hans Fallada (1893). After her are Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1792), Gottfried Semper (1803), Amalie Auguste of Bavaria (1801), Richard Baer (1911), Georg Bednorz (1950), and Walter Baade (1893).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Caroline of Brunswick ranks 233. Before her are George, King of Saxony (1832), Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt (1765), Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1671), Otto Ernst Remer (1912), Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (1505), and Maurice, Elector of Saxony (1521). After her are Amalie Auguste of Bavaria (1801), Richard Baer (1911), Joseph Berchtold (1897), Henry I, Duke of Bavaria (920), Martin Schulz (1955), and Leopold I, Margrave of Austria (940).

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