In 1705, George married Caroline of Ansbach, with whom he had eight children. The Act of Settlement 1701 and the Acts of Union 1707 positioned his grandmother Sophia of Hanover and her Protestant descendants to inherit the British throne.
George II (George Augustus German: Georg August 30 October / 9 November 1683 – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( Hanover) and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 ( O.S.) until his death in 1760.īorn and brought up in northern Germany, George is the most recent British monarch born outside Great Britain.