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Frederick was the father of King George III. Under the Act of Settlement passed by the English Parliament in 1701, Frederick was fourth in the line of succession to the British throne at birth, after his great-grandmother Sophia, Dowager Electress of Hanover; his grandfather George, Prince-Elector of Hanover; and his father, George. The Elector ...
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , with George as its king.
On the day of George III's death, 29 January 1820, the line of succession to the British throne was: George, Prince Regent, Prince of Wales (born 1762), eldest son of George III; Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (born 1763), second son of George III; Prince William, Duke of Clarence and St Andrews (born 1765), third son of George III
King George III. Born: June 4, 1738. Died: January 29, 1820. King George III was born Prince George William Frederick of Wales, and he was 23 years old when he married Charlotte.
King George III, born Prince George William Frederick of Wales on June 4, 1738, was the eldest son of Frederick, Prince of Wales and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.His grandfather was King George II. When ...
She used her closeness with George III to keep herself informed and to make recommendations for offices. [24] Apparently her recommendations were not direct, as she on one occasion, in 1779, asked her brother Charles to burn her letter, because the King suspected that a person she had recently recommended for a post was the client of a woman ...
Colonel John George Nathaniel Gibbes: 30 March 1787: 5 July 1873: Legally his father was John Gibbes, his mother's husband. Captain John Molloy: c. 1789: 6 October 1867: Said to be the son of Sarah Hussey, Countess of Tyrconnel, fostered and raised by the Molloys. Frederick George Vandiest: 1800: 1848: Louisa Ann Vandiest: 1802: 1890
His father was the reigning British monarch, King George III. [3] His mother was Queen Charlotte (née Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz). [4] On 27 February 1764, when Prince Frederick was six months old, he became Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück upon the death of Clemens August of Bavaria. [3]