House of Hannover

House of Hanover

Country	Kingdom of Great Britain Kingdom of Ireland United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Parent house	Este → Welf
Titles	Empress of India King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King of Great Britain King of Ireland King of France King of Hanover Elector of Brunswick-Lueneburg Arch-Treasurer of the Holy Roman Empire Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Duke of Brunswick etc., etc., etc.
Founded	1635 – George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Current head	Ernst August, Prince of Hanover
Dissolution	United Kingdom: 1901 – Death of Queen Victoria ends the British branch in the agnatic line; semi-Salic law ends personal union of Hanover with the United Kingdom in 1837, upon death of her uncle William IV. Hanover: 1866 – George V of Hanover lost the territory to Prussia in the Austro-Prussian War Brunswick: 1918 – Ernest Augustus of Brunswick forced to abdicate after German defeat in World War I
Ethnicity	German

The House of Hanover (or the Hanoverians /ˌhænəˈvɪəriənz, -noʊ-, -ˈvɛr-/;German: Haus Hannover) is a German royal dynasty that ruled the Electorate and then the Kingdom of Hanover, and that also provided monarchs of Great Britain and Ireland from 1714 and ruled the United Kingdom until the death of Queen Victoria in 1901. Upon Victoria's death, the British throne passed to her eldest son Edward VII, a member of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha through his father. The House of Hanover was formally named the House of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Hanover line, as it was originally a cadet branch of the House of Brunswick-Lüneburg. The senior branch became extinct in 1884, and the House of Hanover is now the only surviving branch of the House of Welf, which is the senior branch of the House of Este. The current head of the House of Hanover is Ernst August, Prince of Hanover.