Editing House of Hanover (section)

=== Monarchs of Great Britain, Ireland, and Hanover ===
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George Louis became the first British monarch of the House of Hanover as George I in 1714.<ref name="Picknett">{{Cite book |last1=Picknett |first1=Lynn |title=War of the Windsors: A Century of Unconstitutional Monarchy |last2=Prince |first2=Clive |last3=Prior |first3=Stephen |last4=Brydon |first4=Robert |publisher=Mainstream Publishing |year=2002 |isbn=1-84018-631-3}}.</ref>{{rp|13}} The dynasty provided six British monarchs:

''Of the Kingdoms of [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] and [[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]]'' (changed in 1801 to ''the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]]''):{{NoteTag|In 1801, the British and Irish kingdoms merged, forming the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]].}}
# [[George I of Great Britain|George I]] ({{abbr|r.|reigned}} 1714–1727) (Georg Ludwig = George Louis)
# [[George II of Great Britain|George II]] ({{abbr|r.|reigned}} 1727–1760) (Georg August = George Augustus)
# [[George III of the United Kingdom|George III]] ({{abbr|r.|reigned}} 1760–1820)
# [[George IV of the United Kingdom|George IV]] ({{abbr|r.|reigned}} 1820–1830)
# [[William IV of the United Kingdom|William IV]] ({{abbr|r.|reigned}} 1830–1837)
# [[Queen Victoria|Victoria]] ({{abbr|r.|reigned}} 1837–1901).

George I, George II, and George III also served as electors and dukes of [[Brunswick-Lüneburg]], informally, Electors of [[Hanover]] (cf. ''[[Personal union#Hanover|personal union]]''). They served as [[dual monarchy|dual monarchs]] of Britain and Hanover, maintaining control of the [[Hanoverian Army]] and foreign policy. From 1814, when Hanover became a kingdom following the [[Napoleonic Wars]], the British monarch was also [[King of Hanover]].

Upon the death of William IV in 1837, the [[Personal union of Great Britain and Hanover|personal union of the thrones]] of the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]] and Hanover ended. Succession to the Hanoverian throne was regulated by [[semi-Salic law]] (agnatic-cognatic), which gave priority to all male lines before female lines, and so it passed not to Queen Victoria but to her uncle, the [[Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover|Duke of Cumberland]].<ref name="Picknett" />{{rp|13,14}} In 1901, when Queen Victoria, the last British monarch provided by the House of Hanover, died, her son and heir [[Edward VII]] became the first British monarch of the [[House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]. Edward took his family name from that of his father, [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha]].<ref name="Picknett" />{{rp|14}}