 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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LEADERS' WIVES; THEY CAN BE BOTH A HELP AND A HINDRANCE, A DISTRACTION FOR GOOD OR BAD FROM THE AGENDA OF A POLITICAL PARTY. BUT WOULD THE WIVES OF TONY BLAIR, MICHAEL HOWARD AND CHARLES KENNEDY MAKE GOOD POLITICIANS THEMSELVES? POST STYLE EDITOR CAROLINE FOULKES ASSESSES THEIR CHANCES, WHILE (OVERLEAF) LIFESTYLE EDITOR LISA PIDDINGTON CHECKS OUT THEIR CLOTHES.(Features)
; ...Adams (wife of President John Adams), Jeanne Antoinette de La Motte (Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV) and Caroline of Ansbach (wife of George II) weren't going to stop a little thing like not being able to vote stop them. And so we come...
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Anniversaries: 22nd November
; ...actress, 1920; Robert Kennedy, politician, 1925. Deaths: Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor, 1591; Queen Caroline of Ansbach, consort of George II, 1737; Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein, pianist and composer, 1894; Lev Nikolayevich, Count...
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Brain Gain: Quiz of the Day.(Features)
; ...1963? 3. What was the pen name of the 19th century author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson? 4. Which British king married Caroline of Ansbach? 5. What type of creature is a ringlet? 6. Which drink is made from fermented pear juice? 7. Which country in 1989...
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 "The Journal (Newcastle, England)")
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TIME OUT: Quiz of the Day.(Features)
; ...1963? 3. What was the pen name of the 19th century author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson? 4. Which British king married Caroline of Ansbach? 5. What type of creature is a ringlet? 6. Which drink is made from fermented pear juice? 7. Which country in 1989...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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The other Duchesses of Cornwall.
; ...Wales so they then became Princess of Wales. The first was Caroline of Ansbach, wife of George II. The daughter of a German prince, she...of Wales nearly two months later. He became king in 1727. Caroline - seen as the real brains behind the throne - died ten years...
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Diane Hamilton Bulger Photo Re ...
; ...1986, she taught in the Defense Department school system in Ansbach, Germany. She was a member of the Christian Women's Club of...Lawrence Worth Hatch of North Beach; three children, Mary Caroline Deaderick of Fredericksburg, Jefferson Lee Hatch of Newton...
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Hichens, Mark: Wives of the Kings of England: From Hanover to Windsor.(Book review)
; ...its worldwide empire. As wife of King George II (1727-60), Caroline of Ansbach for a decade helped govern Great Britain in collaboration...all of their fifteen children. King George IV (1820-30) and Caroline of Brunswick became, in contrast, models of marital dysfunction...
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Cat's bell tolling for Mandelson?
; ...pour noxious substances on them from upper windows of the Palace. Alexander Pope had views on Hervey, favourite of Caroline of Ansbach, dominant consort of George II. Yet let me slap this bug with gilded wings This painted child of dirt that spits...
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