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Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange

1709 - 1759

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Anne, Princess Royal (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. Princess Anne was the second daughter of a British sovereign to hold the title Princess Royal. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange is the 4,392nd most popular politician (down from 3,199th in 2019), the 1,146th most popular biography from Germany (down from 858th in 2019) and the 330th most popular German Politician.

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

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Among politicians, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange ranks 4,392 out of 19,576Before her are Gyula Horn, Oskar Lafontaine, Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, Ali Bongo Ondimba, Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, and Hans Oster. After her are Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut, Ye Jianying, Al-Muktafi, Pak Pong-ju, Janet Mills, and Rainier I of Monaco, Lord of Cagnes.

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Among people born in 1709, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange ranks 8Before her are Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Samuel Johnson, Jacques de Vaucanson, Georg Wilhelm Steller, Franz Benda, and Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. After her are Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, Johann Georg Gmelin, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Tokugawa Ietsugu, and Franz Xaver Richter. Among people deceased in 1759, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange ranks 6Before her are George Frideric Handel, Louise Élisabeth of France, Ferdinand VI of Spain, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, and Louise Henriette de Bourbon. After her are Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Carl Heinrich Graun, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, and Sedjefakare.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange ranks 1,146 out of 7,253Before her are Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans (1426), Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775), Georg-Hans Reinhardt (1887), Oskar Lafontaine (1943), Lale Andersen (1905), and Hans Oster (1887). After her are Johannes Valentinus Andreae (1586), Erich Auerbach (1892), Fritz Strassmann (1902), Friedrich Dollmann (1882), Ernst Albrecht (1930), and Sibylle of Cleves (1512).

Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange ranks 330Before her are Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen (1804), Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1803), Charles, Grand Duke of Baden (1786), Paul Langerhans (1847), Oskar Lafontaine (1943), and Hans Oster (1887). After her are Ernst Albrecht (1930), Sibylle of Cleves (1512), Emil Jellinek (1853), Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen (1925), Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1713), and Gottlob Berger (1896).