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| George V, king of Hanover |
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| 181978, last king of Hanover (185166), son and successor of Ernest Augustus. He was blind after 1833. Fearing Hanovers absorption by Prussia, he sided with Austria in the Austro-Prussian War (1866). When Prussia was victorious, he lost his throne, and Hanover was annexed to Prussia. Thereafter he styled himself duke of Cumberland. |
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