George III of the United Kingdom
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English: George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until 1 January 1801, and thereafter of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was concurrently Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and thus Elector (and later King) of Hanover. The Electorate became the Kingdom of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was the third British monarch of the House of Hanover, and the first of Hanover to be born in Britain and speak English language as his first language. In fact, he never visited Germany.
Issue [edit]
| Name | Birth | Death | Notes[1] |
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| George IV of the United Kingdom | 12 August 1762 | 26 June 1830 | married 1795, Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel; had issue |
| Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany | 16 August 1763 | 5 January 1827 | married 1791, Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia; no issue |
| William IV of the United Kingdom | 21 August 1765 | 20 June 1837 | married 1818, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen; no legitimate surviving issue |
| Queen Charlotte of Württemberg aka en:Charlotte, Princess Royal | 29 September 1766 | 6 October 1828 | married 1797, Frederick I of Württemberg; no issue |
| Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn | 2 November 1767 | 23 January 1820 | married 1818, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld; had issue (Queen Victoria) |
| Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom | 8 November 1768 | 22 September 1840 | never married |
| Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom | 22 May 1770 | 10 January 1840 | married 1818, Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg; no issue |
| Ernest Augustus I of Hanover | 5 June 1771 | 18 November 1851 | married 1815, Friederike von Mecklenburg-Strelitz; had issue |
| Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex | 27 January 1773 | 22 April 1843 | married in contravention of the Royal Marriages Act 1772, (1) 1793 The Lady Augusta Murray; had issue; marriage declared void 1794; (2) 1831, The Lady Cecilia Buggins (later 1st Duchess of Inverness); no issue |
| Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge | 24 February 1774 | 8 July 1850 | married 1818, Princess Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge; had issue |
| Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh | 25 April 1776 | 30 April 1857 | married 1816, en:Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh; no issue |
| en:Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom | 3 November 1777 | 27 May 1848 | never married; believed by some to have had issue |
| Prince Octavius of Great Britain | 23 February 1779 | 3 May 1783 | |
| Prince Alfred of Great Britain | 22 September 1780 | 20 August 1782 | |
| en:Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom | 7 August 1783 | 2 November 1810 | Possibly married Sir Charles Fitzroy; may have had issue |
Gallery [edit]
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King George III (in coronation robes), portrait by Allan Ramsay, 1761-62
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Detail of King George III (in coronation robes), portrait by Allan Ramsay, 1761-62
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Detail of King George III (in coronation robes), portrait by Allan Ramsay, 1761-62
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AV Half-Guinea (4.20 g). Dated 1808.
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Half-Crown coin of George III, 1816. The portrait, known to collectors as the "bull-head George," was by the Italian engraver Benedetto Pistrucci, who was unable to engrave it from life since the King was insane
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Caricature by James Gillray
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New York City. After a public reading of the Declaration of Independence on 9 July, 1776, crowd pulls down statue of King George III to be melted into bullets
See also [edit]
- ↑ Weir, Alison () Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy, Revised edition, Random House ISBN: 0712674489.
