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How were the Guelphs related to the House of Hanover?

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The line of Brunswick-Lüneburg or Hanover (see Hanover, house of ) ascended (1714) the throne of Great Britain in the person of George I, but because of the Salic law of succession Hanover was separated (1837) from the British crown on the accession of Queen Victoria.

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