S3.60 Caroline of Brunswick

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4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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If Ali still had his scandal bell, this episode might break it! It's Caroline of Brunswick this week, consort to George IV despite his spending their entire marriage trying to prevent that eventuality. A poorly matched couple, Caroline lived life according to her own rules, creating scandal in England and then in European exile before returning for a grand battle as George tried to deny her her position as Queen. It certainly made an impression, but will it deserve the Rex Factor? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Rex Factor!
0:14.0	This week, Caroline of Brunswick.
0:25.0	With your host Graham Duke and Ali. Hello! Hello and welcome to Rex Factor reviewing all the Queen and Prince Consorts of England from
0:32.0	Elswith to Prince Philip.
0:33.7	Follow us on Twitter or X and Instagram where we are at Rex Factor Pod, email Rex Factor podcast at
0:38.9	Hotmail.com and sign up for bonus content at Patreon.com forward Rax Factor. Now this week as you've heard
0:44.9	we are reviewing Caroline of Brunswick the wife and Queen Consort to George the
0:50.0	fourth aka the Prince Regents aka Hugh Lorry and Blackadder.
0:55.0	Brilliant.
0:57.0	Finally, and I can really place.
1:01.0	I seem to have spent ages in that world, that kitchen and that living room I know it well
1:05.8	well she's one of the most notorious consoles in English history a famously unhappy marriage
1:11.0	but where will our sympathies lie and how will it affect Caroline's hopes of getting the Rex factor?
1:15.6	Oh no.
1:17.6	I worry, I do worry.
1:21.6	Biography! Caroline was born on the 17th of May, 1768 in Brunswick, which is Lower Saxony in modern
1:28.5	day Germany about 40 miles east of Hanover.
1:31.9	relative to the last Strelitz how and what we're talking. It's still
1:35.4	still small but it's a bit bigger than Strelitz it's a bit more notable. She's the
1:40.8	daughter of Carl the second the Duke of Brunswick who's a renowned soldier which obviously adds a certain luster
1:45.6	And Princess Augusta of Britain the sister of George the third
1:50.9	How funny it's weird to hear it.
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