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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 his father Prince Frederick died unexpectedly in 1751 at age 44, George became heir apparent. In 1760, George III became monarch when his grandfather die...

The eldest son of Charlotte and George, Prince George Augustus Frederick was born on August 17, 1762. In 1785, he secretly married Maria Anne Fitzherbert, but the marriage was invalid under English law because his father, the monarch, did not consent to the union. In 1795, he married his cousin, Princess Caroline of Brunswick, but they formally sep...

The second son of Charlotte and George, Prince Frederick Augustuswas born on August 16, 1763. He had a career in the army, and his father appointed him Commander-in-Chief in 1795 (he resigned in 1809). He married Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia, but the two quickly separated. They had no children. After the death of Princess Charlotte, the ...

The third son of Charlotte and George, Prince William Henry was born on August 21, 1765. Upon his birth, he was not expected to inherit the throne, and so he joined the Royal Navy, and fought in the American Revolutionary War in New York. Beginning in 1791, he lived with his mistress, Dorothea Bland, an Irish actress. Dorothea and William had ten i...

Princess Charlotte, the eldest daughter of Charlotte and George, was born on September 29, 1766. She received the title "Princess Royal" when she was 22 years old. In 1797, she married Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Württemberg, who became Duke of Württenberg shortly after their marriage. They had no surviving children. In 1805, Napoleon recognize...

Charlotte and George's fourth son, Prince Edward, was born on November 2, 1767. He served in the British army. In 1818, he married Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, a widow. Her first husband, Emich Karl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen, died four years earlier; they had two children. Edward and Victoria had one child, Princess Alexandrina Victori...

The second daughter and sixth child of George and Charlotte, Princess Augusta Sophiawas born on November 8, 1768. She made her society debut in 1782, at her father's birthday celebrations. She entered a secret romance with Sir Brent Spencer, an officer in the British Army and equerry to the King. The two were thought to be privately married. She di...

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-Homburg. They were married until his death in 1829. Elizabeth died in Germany, at age 69, on January 10, 1840.

The fifth son of George and Charlotte, Prince Ernest Augustus, born June 5, 1771, was unlikely to inherit the throne. Upon the deaths of his elder brothers, his niece Princess Victoria inherited the British throne, and Ernest ascended to the Hanover throne. The Kingdom of Hanover had a personal union with the United Kingdom beginning in 1814, but e...