The of 1701 established that the succession would go to the Protestant Sophia, Electress of Hanover.
The great Prime Minister of George I's time was .
Frequently absent in his homeland for up to half a year, he left Britain to be ruled by a body called the , which was the principal executive group of British government.
In 1760 , George Ⅱ's grandson, came to the throne, whose first language was English and who never visited Germany.