It was understood by all that, in the Hanoverian succession, there was an unfortunate tendency for the monarch and his heir to have differences.

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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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James Edward made only a half-hearted attempt to regain the throne after the death of Queen Anne, but "Jacobitism" (from James in Latin, Jacobus) would haunt the Hanoverian dynasty that succeeded her.

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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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Quakers and Catholics sided with the king, and so did many settlers of German and Dutch origin, as well as most Scots Highlanders, who had sworn an oath of loyalty to the Hanoverian crown in defeat and were not about to go back on it.

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