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Persoonlijke gegevens William Henry king of (William Henry, king of) England and Hannover King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Irela 

• Alternatieve naam: William Henry Duke of (William Henry, Duke of) Clarence
• Roepnaam William Henry, king of.
• Hij is geboren op 21 augustus 1765 in Buckingham Palace, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England.
• Hij werd gedoopt in St. James Palace, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England.
• (Royal Navy) in het jaar 1778.
• (King of the united Kingdo) tussen 1830 en 1837.

  King f the united kingdom

• (Crowned) op 8 september 1831.
• Hij is overleden op 20 juni 1837 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England, Great Britain, hij was toen 71 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in het jaar 1837 in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England, Great Britain.
• Een kind van George III (William Frederick Guelph) of England and Hannover en Sophia Charlotte Herzoginn von Mecklenburg-Strelitz
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 4 december 2022.

Gezin van William Henry king of (William Henry, king of) England and Hannover King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Irela

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Dorothy [illegitimate] Bland.

Zij zijn getrouwd rond 1793 te Not Married.

Kind(eren):

1. George Augustus Frederick [illegitimate] FitzClarence  1794-1842 
2. Sophia [illegitimate] FitzClarence  1796-1837 
3. Henry Edward [illegitimate] FitzClarence  1795-1817
4. Mary [illegitimate] FitzClarence  1798-1864
5. Frederick [illegitimate] FitzClarence  1799-1854 
6. Elizabeth [illegitimate] FitzClarence  1801-1856 
7. Adolphus [illegitimate] FitzClarence  1802-1856
8. Augustus [illegitimate] FitzClarence  1805-1854 
9. Amelia [illegitimate] FitzClarence  1807-1858
10. Augusta [illegitimate] FitzClarence  1803-1865 

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Caroline von Linsingen.

Zij zijn getrouwd

Kind(eren):

1. William [illegitimate] von Linsingen  1785-1807

(3) Hij is getrouwd met Adelheid Louise Theresa Caroline Amelia von Sachsen-Meiningen.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 11 juli 1818 te Kew Palace, Great Britain, hij was toen 52 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Charlotte Augusta Louisa van England and Hannover  1819-1819
2. Elizabeth Georgiana van England and Hannover  1820-1821

Notities over William Henry king of (William Henry, king of) England and Hannover King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Irela

King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland & Hanover

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     William had been, between the ages of 12 and 24, a professional
sailor, not of great brilliance though he commanded three ships and emerged as a young rear-admiral.  Lord Nelson, at whose wedding William presided, had to wait until he was 39 before attaining this rank.  But after 1789 William never went to sea, except in his rank as sole Admiral of the Fleet, commanding it for a royal inspection.  In 1790 he met Mrs. Jordan, the stage name of a popular Irish actress born Dorothy Bland, who had previously had a varied and not always secure love-life.  They settled down quietly together in Bushy Park, Hampton Court, where William had the Ranger's Lodge, and Mrs. Jordan bore him ten children, all brought up in serene domesticity until they displayed the aggression of adolescence - a presage of much deeper insolance in later life.  William had an inadequate allowance from the State, and when his debts were heavy, Mrs. Jordan used to put on her grease paint again for a stage tour which, because of her talent, could bring in some thousands of pounds. Because William accepted this arrangement, it is difficult not to censure him for his final exclusion of Mrs. Jordan.  But it seems to have been done because of the death of love rather than a questing lust, and William never abandoned the children.  After 20 years William pensioned off Mrs. Jordan, and began to seek a rich bride in order to support their children.  The search took seven years, during which Dorothy died in misery.  By this time William was third in succession to the throne.  The eventual bride, however, Princess Adelaide of Sachsen-Meiningen, brought no dowry save a warm heart and the assurance that she would cherish William's bastards.  She loved him well, welcomed the FitzClarences, even when they were insulting, and bore her own children to William - though fewer than he conceived - she miscarried several times, and her longest surviving child lived only four months.  She endured all this with sweetness.  She told the Duchess of Kent, mother of the Victoria who was eventually to succeed her husband: "My children are dead, but your child lives, and she is mine too."  In 1827 the death of the Duke of York made William heir to the throne, and in 1830 he took it with his natural ability and lack of hypocrisy, chatting about the total game the mourners had bagged before making his obituary speech at George IV's funeral, and nodding to friends as he moved up the aisle for his coronation.  He was 65 years old, and nobody asked much of him except to be different from his hated brother who had died.  But, with his good sense of duty, he did one thing which created a historic and binding precedent on the future of constitutional monarchy in Great Britain.  He was old-fashioned, perhaps reactionary.  But when the Whig government was returned to power pledged to introduce the Great Reform Bill, he respected their mandate, jibbed at their intansigence, but ultimately consented to Lord Grey's request that he should, if necessary, create enough new Whig peers to force the measure through the Tory House of Lords if the Commons showed that they overwhelmingly desired the reform.  Because he openly accepted this necessity, then persuaded the Tories not to force its use, he advanced democratic government by more than a stumble, and pointed out the course of duty to a no less diehard Sailor King, George V in 1911.

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William was succeeded in the United Kingdom by his niece, Victoria, and in Hanover by his brother, Ernest Augustus.

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