How were Queen Anne and King George I related?

Today assumptions are often made about how closely related Anne and George I were. Jacobites liked to ... Elizabeth and Frederick were, briefly, the elected King and Queen of Bohemia, reigning less than a year before they were ejected from their new kingdom by the Catholic Hapsburgs. read more

His mother was Anne's Second Cousin, both being grandchildren of James the First. So George was Anne's Second Cousin Once Removed, being of a later generation. read more

Posted on July 29, 2014 by The History of Parliament Over on twitter this week we are marking the 300 th anniversary of the death of Queen Anne and the Hanoverian succession with a series of daily ‘live tweets’ under the hashtag #Anne1714. read more

Although over 50 Roman Catholics were closer to Anne by primogeniture, the Act of Settlement 1701 prohibited Catholics from inheriting the British throne; George was Anne's closest living Protestant relative. read more