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Princess Charlotte, the Prince of Wales's daughter, was, for the whole of her life, the King's only legitimate grandchild. With her death in 1817, the King's unmarried sons scrambled to find appropriate wives from among the German princesses and produce heirs to the throne; but before this, many had been content to keep mistresses or, in the ...
In her last years, her niece Queen Victoria was on the throne as the fourth monarch during Mary's life, after her father and two of her brothers, George IV and William IV. Dying aged 81 at Gloucester House, Weymouth, Mary was the longest-lived and last survivor of George III's fifteen children (thirteen of whom lived to adulthood).
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Sophia Charlotte; 19 May 1744 – 17 November 1818) was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland as the wife of King George III from their marriage on 8 September 1761 until her death in 1818.
Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester. Born: April 25, 1776. Died: April 30, 1857. Queen Charlotte and King George's 4th daughter, Princess Mary, outlived all of her siblings.
Princess Elizabeth, the third daughter of George and Charlotte, was born May 22, 1770. In her adulthood, she was linked to a few different men, but at age 47, she married Prince Frederick of Hesse ...
Princess Augusta Sophia (born 1768), second daughter of George III; Princess Elizabeth, Dowager Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg (born 1770), third daughter of George III; Upon his death, the throne passed to the first person in line, who became Queen Victoria.
As novelist William Makepeace Thackeray wrote of George III in The Four Georges, "All the world knows the story of his malady: all history presents no sadder figure than that of the old man, blind ...
George never took a mistress (in contrast with his grandfather and his sons), and the couple enjoyed a happy marriage until his mental illness struck. [1] [8] The King and Queen had 15 children—nine sons and six daughters. In 1762, George purchased Buckingham House (on the site now occupied by Buckingham Palace) for use as a family retreat. [20]