Economist, June 29, 2017 (I)

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Hanovarian Princesses l Pretty Precocious; The busy lives of 18th-century royalty.
https://www.economist.com/news/b ... y-18th-century-were

Note:
(a)
(i) This is an exhibition review of
Enlightened Princesses; Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte and the Shaping of the modern world. Kensington Palace, June 22-Nov 12, 2017.
https://www.hrp.org.uk/kensingto ... ghtened-princesses/
("the lives of three German princesses, whose marriage into the British royal family")

, which can be found in the center of the home page of
Kensington Palace | Historic Royal Palaces.
https://www.hrp.org.uk/kensington-palace/
(ii) Kensington Palace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_Palace
(in Kensington Gardens, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London)

(iii) The Economist review says, "Their portraits [of the three princesses in this exhibition] meet the visitor without ceremony—plenty of silk and lace, even a touch of ermine, but the grandeur, the symbolism and allegory of their more formal portraits (discussed, among other things, in the accompanying book), are absent."

The book is

Joanna Marschner (ed), Enlightened Princesses; Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the shaping of the modern world. oublisher: Yale Center for British Art and Historic Royal Palaces in association with Yale University Press, 2017.
http://britishart.yale.edu/resea ... haping-modern-world

(b) "CAROLINE OF ANSBACH, Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz * * * These princesses were imported from Germany to provide heirs for the Hanoverian dynasty which succeeded to the British throne in 1714. Caroline was the wife of George II, Augusta of his son Frederick, and Charlotte (pictured) of the mad king, George III.  Their chief selling point was their Protestantism and their fertility, both crucial to the nation’s harmony after the civil and religious conflicts and reproductive failures of the Stuarts [House of Stuart (whose James I started ruling England in 1603)  ended in 1714 when the last monarch, Queen Anne, died childless] before them."
(i) Caroline of Ansbach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_of_Ansbach
(Wilhelmina Charlotte Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1683 – 1737), commonly known as Caroline of Ansbach * * * Her father, Margrave John Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach, belonged to a branch of the House of Hohenzollern and was the ruler of a small German state, the Principality [definition: the state of a princess] of Ansbach")
(A) House of Hohenzollern "took their name from Hohenzollern Castle." Wikipedia
(B) Hohenzollern Castle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohenzollern_Castle
(The castle sits atop the 855 meters (2,805 ft) Berg Hohenzollern, an isolated 855 m (2,805 ft) promontory)
(ii) Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Augusta_of_Saxe-Gotha
(1719 – 1772; husband: Frederick, Prince of Wales (the eldest son of George II); "Princess Augusta's eldest son succeeded [George II, who was George III's grandfather] as George III of the United Kingdom in 1760, as her husband, Frederick, Prince of Wales, had died nine years earlier")
(iii) Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_of_Mecklenburg-Strelitz
(1744 – 1818; married King George III)