On This Day In Royal History . 2 November 1709 . Anne, Princess Royal, & later Princess of Orange was born . 👑 Anne was born at Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, five years before her paternal grandfather, Elector George Louis, succeeded to the British throne as George I. She was christened shortly after birth at Herrenhausen Palace. She was named after her paternal grandfather’s second cousin Anne, Queen of Great Britain. . ◼ Anne, Princess Royal & Princess of Orange was the second child & eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain & his consort, Caroline of Ansbach. . ◼ She was the spouse of William IV, Prince of Orange, the first hereditary stadtholder of the Netherlands. . ◼ Princess Anne was the second daughter of a British sovereign to hold the title Princess Royal. . ◼ She was Regent of the Netherlands from 1751 until her death in 1759 (12 January) from dropsy, exercising extensive powers on behalf of her son William V. . ◼ Because of her English upbringing & family connections, she was known as an Anglophile - despite being unable to convince the Dutch Republic to enter the Seven Years’ War on the side of the British. . ◼ The princess took drawing & painting lessons from Herman van der Mijn & made a self-portrait of herself in 1740 that is in the collection of the House of Orange-Nassau Historic Collections Trust. She also made a portrait of Van der Mijn himself while he was at work making portraits of other family members. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1709 #AnnePrincessRoyal #PrincessAnne #PrincessofOrange #HouseofHanover #HouseofOrange #EnglishMonarchy #DutchMonarchy #PrincessRoyal #BritishMonarchy #D2Nov #royalfamily #otd #OnThisDay #Historyfacts #hanover #princess #georgeii #kinggeorgeii #carolineofansbach #herrenhausen #herrenhausenpalace 🎨 Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2020 (at Hanover, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHGN82Bjyy3/?igshid=5d33qtc0hn95
