The Leading Facts of English History

| I

Charles I Elizabeth, m. Frederick,

| Elector-Palatine,* and

---------------- later King of Bohemia

| | | I

Charles II James II Mary, m. Sophia, m. the Elector

| William II of of Hanover+

------------ Orange I

| | | | George, Elector of

Mary, m. Anne James William III of Hanover, became

William III Edward Orange, became George I of England,

of Orange, Stuart, William III of 1714

afterward (the so- England, I

William III called "Old 1689 George II

of England Pretender, I

b. 1688, Frederick, Prince of

d. 1765 Wales (died before

| coming to the throne)

Charles Edward I

Stuart (the so-called ============================

"Young Pretender"), I I I

b. 1720, d. 1788 George IV William IV Edward,

Duke of Kent,

d. 1820

*Elector-Palatine: a prince ruling over the I

territory called the Palatinate in Victoria

western Germany, on the Rhine. I

+Elector of Hanover: a prince ruling over the Edward VII

province of Hanover, a part of the German I

Empire, lying on the North Sea. The elector George V

received his title from the fact that he was

one of a certain number of princes who had

the right of electing the German Emperor.