The Hanovers split between Germans and English when British law allowed a woman, Queen Victoria, to rule while Hanoverian law didn't. Queen Marie's husband, George V of Hanover, and her were forced to leave Hanover because Hanover sided with Austria in the Austro-Prussian war that year and Prussia won. Prussia annexed Hanover. Her Wikipedia article is here.
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ca. 1555 Caterina de' Medici by ? (Galleria degli Uffizi - Firenze, Toscana, Italy)
1859 Victoria, Queen of Great Britain & Ireland in the Robes of State by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Royal Collection)
1866(?) Queen Marie of Hanover and her daughter Mary by Wilhelm von Kaulbach (Schloß Marienburg - Pattensen, Niedersachsen, Germany)
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