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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 .
Bushy House is a Grade II* listed [1] former residence of King William IV and Queen Adelaide in Teddington, London, which George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax had constructed for his own enjoyment on the site of a previous house Upper Lodge, Bushy Park, between 1714 and 1715.
King George IV 1762–1830 (regent 1811–1820) r. 1820–1830: Prince Frederick Duke of York and Albany 1763–1827: Princess Frederica Charlotte 1767–1820 of Prussia: Adelaide 1792–1849 of Saxe-Meiningen: King William IV 1765–1837 r. 1830–1837: Charlotte, Princess Royal 1766–1828 Queen of Württemberg: Frederick I King of ...
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 ...
Clarence House is a royal residence on The Mall in the City of Westminster, London. It was built in 1825–1827, adjacent to St James's Palace, for the royal Duke of Clarence, the future King William IV. The four-storey house is faced in pale render.
The animosity which King George IV had to Earl Grey had barred him from government, but in the new reign his chances of office had improved. There had been no official Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons since 1821, but in 1830 the Whigs selected Viscount Althorp to fill the vacancy.
King Willem (disambiguation), lists kings named Willem, the Dutch equivalent of William; King William Ale House, a pub in King Street, Bristol, United Kingdom; King William Street (disambiguation) King William's March, a piece by the English composer Jeremiah Clarke; Prince William (disambiguation)
Bookplate showing the arms granted to the Fitzclarences. The FitzClarence family was an illegitimate branch of the House of Hanover.Prince William, Duke of Clarence and St Andrews, who later became King William IV of the United Kingdom, had at least ten children with his mistress Dorothea Jordan, all of whom took the surname FitzClarence.