The battle was fought on 21 September 1745 and saw Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Jacobite army win a resounding victory over the Hanoverian forces of King George II.

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No other princess was so honoured until 1727, when the Hanoverian King George II of England styled his daughter Anne who also became a princess of Orange and lived until 1759 Princess Royal, when she was nineteen years old.

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In 1683, George II, king of England 1727-1760 and the last British monarch to take part in a battle (Dettingen, 1743), born.

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Seidler, now 73, was a college student when he first decided to write about how King George VI overcame his stutter to lead Britain through World War II with inspiring radio addresses.

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