Anna Di Hannover – Wikipedia

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Anna di Hannover (Hannover, 2 November 1709-London, 12 January 1759) Princess Reale and Princess of Orange, he was the second daughter (first female) of Giorgio II, king of England, and of his consort Carolina of Brandenburg-Annsbach.

Childhood [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Anna and her sisters, painted by Martin Maingaud, 1721.

Anna was born at the Herrenhausen palace, Hanover, five years before her paternal grandfather, the voter Giorgio Luigi, succeeded the British throne like Giorgio I. was baptized shortly after his birth at the Herrenhausen palace. [first] It was so called in honor, of the second degree cousin of her paternal grandfather Anna, queen of Great Britain. [2]

Portrait of Händel, Balthasar Denner (1726–1728)

He learned German, French and English, [3] , and music was taught (including singing, harp and composition) with Georg Friedrich Händel. Händel did not like teaching, but he said he wanted to “do everything for Anna, the flower of the princesses”. [4] She remained a supporter all her life, waiting for her work and approving her music.

Princess Anna in 1720

Marked and survived smallpox in 1720, [5] And two years later his mother contributed to the spread of the practice of variousization (a first type of smallpox vaccine), assisted by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Charles Maitland in Constantinople. On the direction of Carolina, six prisoners sentenced to death fell the vaccine instead of the execution: everyone survived, just as six orphans that had the same treatment. Convinced of the medical value, the queen tried it on the two younger daughters, Amelia and Carolina, successfully inoculated. [6] Anna’s face was marked by the disease, and she was not considered more beautiful as her two minor sisters. [7]

Royal Princess [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Anna, real princess

On August 30, 1727, Giorgio II created his daughter Major Major Princess Reale. Charles I give first this title for the firstborn, Maria, Princess d’Orange (mother of William III), in 1642. However, the title was not used before the kingdom of Giorgio II. (Princess Anna became princess real during the life of her aunt, Queen Sofia Dorotea of ​​Prussia, the firstborn daughter of the British monarch, Giorgio I, Sofia Dorotea had married the king of Prussia eight years earlier the succession of his father.)

Artistic activity [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Ritratto di Herman van der Mijn by Anna di Hanover.

The princess took drawing and painting lessons from Herman Van der Mijn and made his self-portrait in 1740 which is in the collection of the Orange-Nassau house. He also made a portrait of Van der Mijn while he portrayed the faces of the other family members. [8]

  • Autoritratto di Anna di Hannover nel 1740.

    Anna di Hanover’s self -portrait in 1740.

Marriage [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Anna, her husband Guglielmo IV of Orange-Nassau and their children Guglielmo V of Orange-Nassau and Carolina d’Orange-Nassau

Initially a engagement between Anna and Louis XV was hypothesized, but this was not realized as the French insisted on the conversion to Anna’s Catholicism.

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He married, on March 25, 1734 in St. James’s Palace, Guglielmo IV of Orange-Nassau [9] , son of Giovanni Guglielmo Friso d’Orange, head of the Frisian line of the Orange-Nassau house, and his wife Maria Luisa of Assia-Kassel. Guglielmo had a deformity to the spine, which struck her appearance, but Anna said she would marry her, even “if it had been a babobuine” [ten] . Guglielmo and Anna traveled to the Netherlands after a honeymoon in Kew. Anna soon felt nostalgia at the house when her husband left for Rhineia, and traveled to England. In the end, her husband and father ordered her to return to the Netherlands [11] .

Regency [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Anna, regent of Orange

In 1751, upon the death of her husband, Anna was appointed regent for her son, Prince Guglielmo V, who was only three years old at the time.

Death [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Anna di Hanover on the death bed

He continued to act as a regent until his death of hydropisia in 1759, to L’Aia, the Netherlands, when he was replaced by his mother-in-law, Maria Luisa d’Assia-Kassel and by Duke Luigi Ernesto of Bruswick-Lüneburg. When she died, Anna’s daughter, Carolina, was appointed regent until the age of Guglielmo V, in 1766.

Anna and Guglielmo had five children:

  1. ^ Yvonne’s Royalty Home Page: Royal Christenings . are Users.uniserve.com . URL consulted on March 30, 2016 (archived by URL Original on 27 August 2011) .
  2. ^ Van der Kiste, p. 24
  3. ^ Van der Kiste, p. 84
  4. ^ Van der Kiste, p. 85
  5. ^ Van der Kiste, p. 73
  6. ^ Van der Kiste, p. 83
  7. ^ Van der Kiste, p. 78
  8. ^ Clayton, Ellen Creathorne. English female artists, volume 2 (London, Tinsley brothers, 1876) p. 81 ff.
  9. ^ Van der Kiste, p. 132
  10. ^ Van der Kiste, p. 131
  11. ^ Van der coffin, pp. 135–136

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