CAROLINE wife of George II., king of Great Britain and Ireland, was a daughter of John Frederick, margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1686). She married George Augustus, electoral prince of Hanover, in Sept. 1705. In Oct. 1714, when her father-in-law became king George I, Caroline came with her husband to London, where her popularity and tact did much to ease the difficult situation caused by the quarrel between the prince of Wales and his father. During the period of complete estrangement from the royal court, 0717 20), the prince and princess attracted most of the distinguished men and women of the day to their residences at Leicester House in London and at Richmond. A formal reconciliation with George I. took place in 1720. In Oct. 1727 George II. and his queen were crowned. Queen Caroline's influence was effective in keeping Sir Robert Walpole in power; and her religious tolerance was re flected in the appointment of bishops remarkable for learning rather than orthodoxy. She was regent of the kingdom during the king's absences from England in 1729, 1732, 1735 and 1736-37. In her relations with her husband, to whom she bore eight chil dren, Caroline proved herself a clever and patient woman, and re tained her influence over him up to her death on Nov. 20, 7. Caroline appears in Scott's Heart of Midlothian; see also Lord Hervey, Memoirs of the Reign of George II., ed. by J. W. Croker (1884) ; W. H. Wilkins, Caroline the Illustrious (1904) ; and A. D. Greenwood, Lives of the Hanoverian Queens of England, vol. i. (1909).