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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.
The Caroline affair (also known as the Caroline case) was an international incident involving the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Canadas which started in 1837 and lasted until 1842. While ultimately a minor historical event, it eventually acquired substantial international legal significance.
Jun 2, 2020 · When Caroline returned to Britain on 5 June 1820, George’s quest to obtain a divorce continued. A day later, a message from the King was delivered to both Houses of Parliament, with bags of evidence from the Milan Commission, sealed in green bags.
Oct 29, 2020 · On 26 January, Lord Archibald Hamilton unsuccessfully raised a motion to prepare an address to the King for the re-insertion of the Queen’s name in the Liturgy. Five days later Henry Brougham, radical MP and the Queen’s political ally, presented communications from Caroline to the House of Commons.
On 5 June 1820 Caroline, who had been living abroad for the past six years, arrived unexpectedly in England to claim her right to be crowned queen. The government, under intense pressure from the king, reluctantly agreed to introduce a bill of pains and penalties into the House of Lords, which would have annulled the royal marriage and deprived ...
The licentious career of Caroline of Brunswick, the most notorious queen in modern British history, was only exceeded by that of her husband, George IV, and the scandal that emerged when he attempted to obtain a divorce inspired one of the most unusual episodes of nineteenth-century British history.
Why did the case of Queen Caroline in 1820 present a threat to the Government? Political party spirit made the presence of the queen acceptable to many, who cared nothing about her, except so far as she was a means of annoyance to ministers, and who, even in former times when she was protected by the late king, had been connected with her ...
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