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William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837. The third son of George III , William succeeded his elder brother George IV , becoming the last king and penultimate monarch of Britain's House of Hanover .
In 1830, on the death of his elder brother, George IV, William acceded to the throne. He and Adelaide were crowned on 8 September 1831 at Westminster Abbey. William despised the ceremony and acted throughout, it is presumed deliberately, as if he was "a character in a comic opera", making a mockery of what he thought to be a ridiculous charade ...
Maria Anne Fitzherbert (née Smythe, previously Weld; 26 July 1756 – 27 March 1837) was a longtime companion of George, Prince of Wales (later King George IV of the United Kingdom). In 1785, they married secretly in a ceremony that was invalid under English civil law because his father, King George III , had not consented to it.
William IV succeeded his brother George IV on 26 June 1830. His first prime minister was Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington , who had led a chaotic Tory administration since January 1828. Until 1867, the Demise of the Crown automatically triggered the dissolution of parliament and a general election was therefore necessary with voting ...
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: Children of William IV (then Duke of Clarence) by Dorothea Jordan: George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster: 29 January 1794: 20 March 1842: married 1819, Mary Wyndham; had issue ...
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 ...
Thomas was born in Southwark, son of William Thomas. At the age of eight, an orphan, he was admitted to Christ's Hospital , the first Bluecoat school . The last part of his education was in the Royal Mathematical School , where he learned the theory and practice of navigation.
George IV's coronation, 19 July 1821 George IV at Holyhead en route to Ireland on 7 August 1821, the day of his wife's death. When George III died in 1820, the Prince Regent, then aged 57, ascended the throne as George IV, with no real change in his powers. [49] By the time of his accession, he was obese and possibly addicted to laudanum. [5]