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Frederica of Hanover

1917 - 1981

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Frederica of Hanover (German: Friederike Luise; Greek: Φρειδερίκη Λουΐζα, romanized: Phreideríkē Louḯza; 18 April 1917 – 6 February 1981) was Queen of Greece from 1 April 1947 until 6 March 1964 as the wife of King Paul and the Queen Mother of Greece from 6 March 1964, when her son Constantine II became King, until 8 December 1974, when the monarchy was officially abolished after a referendum. Granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II and daughter of Duke Ernest Augustus of Brunswick, Frederica was born a few months before the fall of the German Empire. Her family overthrown, she grew up between Austria and Weimar Germany, where her father owned large properties. As a teenager, she joined the Hitler Youth in 1933, before leaving to complete her studies for the next two years in the United Kingdom and then Italy. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frederica of Hanover is the 84th most popular companion (up from 102nd in 2019), the 299th most popular biography from Germany (up from 393rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Companion.

Frederica of Hanover is most famous for being the wife of George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland, and the mother of Queen Victoria.

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Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Frederica of Hanover ranks 84 out of 784. Before her are Abigail, Julia, Amalasuntha, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Isabeau of Bavaria, and Charlotte, Princess Royal. After her are Berenice II of Egypt, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, Dinah, Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, and Hortense de Beauharnais.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Frederica of Hanover ranks 10. Before her are Park Chung-hee, Heinrich Böll, John Fenn, Arthur C. Clarke, Rodney Robert Porter, and Ilya Prigogine. After her are James Rainwater, Christian de Duve, Ella Fitzgerald, Marsha Hunt, John Kendrew, and Dean Martin. Among people deceased in 1981, Frederica of Hanover ranks 8. Before her are Anwar Sadat, Jacques Lacan, Albert Speer, Hans Adolf Krebs, Moshe Dayan, and Bill Haley. After her are Claude Auchinleck, Soong Ching-ling, Max Euwe, Odd Hassel, Hideki Yukawa, and William Wyler.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Frederica of Hanover ranks 299 out of 7,253. Before her are John of Austria (1547), Eduard Bernstein (1850), Ernst Ruska (1906), Maximilian II of Bavaria (1811), Michael Ende (1929), and Isabeau of Bavaria (1370). After her are Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742), Walther von Reichenau (1884), Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714), Heinrich Müller (1900), Franz Marc (1880), and Kurt von Schleicher (1882).

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Among COMPANIONS In Germany

Among companions born in Germany, Frederica of Hanover ranks 9. Before her are Queen Silvia of Sweden (1943), Caroline of Ansbach (1683), Magda Goebbels (1901), Anne of Cleves (1515), Sepp Dietrich (1892), and Isabeau of Bavaria (1370). After her are Katharina von Bora (1498), Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1691), Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (1868), Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1776), Maria Amalia of Saxony (1724), and Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1817).

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