He divorced his wife over her adultery with a Swedish nobleman and imprisoned her in Ahlden Castle.
He divorced his wife over her adultery with a Swedish nobleman and imprisoned her in Ahlden Castle. This followed his peaceful accession to the throne, which had been due to the diplomatic efforts of Thomas Wharton. The father of Sophia Dorothea and grandfather of Frederick the Great, this man's claim to the throne lay in his great-grandfather, James I of England. His problems included the Jacobite Rebellion known as the "15," and the fact that he could not speak English. FTP, name this successor of Queen Anne, who, in 1714, became the first Hanoverian king of England.
He divorced his wife over her adultery with a Swedish nobleman and imprisoned her in Ahlden Castle.
{George I}