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| George III, William Frederick Guelph, King of Great Britain Ireland & Hanover 1 1 2 3 | |
| Birth: | 4 Jun 1738 in Norfolk House, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom |
| Death: | 29 Jan 1820 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales b. 20 Jan 1707 in Hannover, Hannover, Prussia |
| Mother: | Augusta, Princess of Saxe Gotha Altenburg b. 30 Nov 1719 in Gotha, Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha, Thuringia |
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| Changed: 24 Jan 2005 1 1 2 3 |
| Christening: 24 May 1738 Norfolk House, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom |
| Burial: 16 Feb 1820 Saint George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom |
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| Hannah Lightfoot (Wife) b. 12 Oct 1730 in Parish of St. John's, Wapping
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| Marriage: | 17 APR 1759 in Keith's Chapel, Curzon Street, Mayfair |
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 George Rex of Great Britain b. 1750 in London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- William (Taylor) of Great Britain b. 1757
- Mary of Great Britain b. 1767
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| Sofie Charlotte, Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz (Wife) b. 19 May 1744 in Mirow Church, Mirow, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany
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| Marriage: | 8 SEP 1761 in Saint James Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom |
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 George IV, King of Great Britain Ireland & Hannover b. 12 Aug 1762 in Saint James Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Frederick Augustus, Prince of Great Britain Ireland & Hannover b. 16 Aug 1763 in Buckingham House, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- William IV, King of Great Britain Ireland & Hannover, etc b. 21 Aug 1765 in Buckingham House, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal of Great Britain Ireland & Hannover b. 29 Sep 1766 in Buckingham House, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent b. 2 Nov 1767 in Buckingham House, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Augusta Sophia, Princess of Great Britain & Ireland b. 8 Nov 1768 in Buckingham House, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Elizabeth Hannover, Pss of Great Britain & Ireland & Hannover b. 22 May 1770 in Buckingham House, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Ernst August I, King of Hannover, Duke of Cumberland b. 5 Jun 1771 in Buckingham House, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex b. 27 Jan 1773 in Buckingham House, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Adolphus Frederick, 1st Duke of Cambridge b. 24 Feb 1774 in Buckingham House, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Mary, Princess of Great Britain & Ireland b. 25 Apr 1776 in Queen's House, Saint James, London, United Kingdom
- Sophia, Princess of Great Britain & Ireland b. 3 Nov 1777 in Buckingham House, Westminster, Middlesex, United Kingdom
- Octavius, Prince of Great Britain & Ireland b. 23 Feb 1779 in Queen's House, Saint James, London, United Kingdom
- Alfred, Prince of Great Britain & Ireland b. 22 Sep 1780 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom
- Amelia, Princess of Great Britain & Ireland b. 7 Aug 1783 in The Lodge, Windsor, United Kingdom
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- Title: internet
Page: http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/greatbritain.html
- Title: email
Page: Sheila Mitchell
- Title: Note
Text: Prince Charles Defends King George III
Mon Jan 26,10:06 AM ET
LONDON - Prince Charles has spoken in support of his ancestor, King Geo rge III, widely - if wrongly - regarded as the "mad" monarch who lost Britain its American colonies.
Interviewed for a TV documentary - excerpts were released Monday - Char les said George III might have calmed American revolutionaries bent on severing ties with Britain if a royal visit across the Atlantic had been possible in 1776, the year the 13 colonies declared independence.
George's illness, now believed now to have been rooted in the genetic d isorder porphyria, was the subject of the award-winning 1994 film "The Madness Of King George," in which the monarch was played by British actor Nigel Hawthorne.
Charles told "Timewatch" that George, who lived from 1738 to 1820, was o ne of Britain's most dutiful, cultured and misunderstood rulers, who studied the arts and sciences and was involved in agriculture, astronomy, architecture and clock-making, as well as collecting books, medals, paintings and drawings.
"For many years, I've been fascinated by my ancestor," the prince told t he program.
"George III led Britain through 60 years of enormous social upheaval, i ndustrial revolution and terrible hardships inflicted by war with Napoleon.
"Yet history remembered him above all as the 'mad king' or the king who l ost America' - this is a travesty."
Like Charles, George loved the countryside and had a strong interest in a rchitecture. And, like Charles, he was mocked for his interest in agriculture: Charles once said he talked to plants, and George was lampooned as "Farmer George."
"He used to walk around the countryside (west of London) at Windsor and K ew alone,
talking to neighbors and farm workers and had a genuine interest in the w ell-being of every single estate worker," Charles told the program.
"The sight of the king chatting about agricultural prices, hog breeding , the coming of the harvest and so on, struck some as being eccentric and unbecoming. Cartoonists of the day mocked him for it."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040126/ap_on_re_eu / prince_charles_mad_king_1
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the documents relating to the marriage of Hannah and her alleged Will t hat were confiscated during the 1866 court case have been recently confirmed as forgeries. The paper dated from a much later period and thus the certificates could not be genuine. The quest for Hannah continues.
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Archaeologists claim to have discovered two hidden tombs which are the g raves of George III's secret granddaughter and her niece in a parish church.
If genuine, the find in St Peter's parish church in Carmarthen, west Wa les, would solve a 160-year-old mystery about the whereabouts of the descendants of the king and explain why the monarch donated a pipe organ to the church.
The tombs were found by archaeologists re-tiling the church's historic f loor which had subsided.
This is one of the most exciting things - it came as a complete surpris e
Nigel Page, Cambria Archaeology
They and the vicar at the church, Canon Randolph Thomas, said today the y had had no idea that the bodies were buried beneath the floor.
One of the tombstones is engraved with the name Charlotte Dalton, and t he date of her death 1832 which is the same as George III's granddaughter who died aged 27 in that year.
She was from his first marriage, which was kept secret.
'Beats expectations'
The Prince of Wales's wedding in 1759 to Quaker girl Hannah Lightfoot a nd the births of their three children, were concealed to allow him to marry Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
The lord chancellor of the day reportedly confiscated the marriage docu ments and they are believed to held in the Public Record Office.
Charlotte Dalton's mother Sarah married a Carmarthen man James Dalton a nd Church records said she was buried in the town but did not give an exact location.
The other grave in the historic church bears the name of Charlotte Dalt on's niece Margaret Prytherch, and the date of her death aged nine in 1839.
Mr Thomas said: "We had no idea that we were going to find the tombs as t here is no record of them in history.
"We did expect some interesting finds but this beats all our expectatio ns."
BBC News Saturday, 9 September, 2000, 12:41 GMT 13:41 UK
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George III William Frederick, King of Great Britain, Ireland and Hannov er, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg.
Ref: The Jews of Ireland by Louis Hyman (1972). Page 52, states that G eorge III was a Jew who probably conformed to Anglicanism.
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George III of Great Britain and Ireland, King of Hanover, Duke of Bruns wick Luneburg (r. 1760-1820), who presided over the loss of Britain's American colonies. He was also elector of Hanover (1760-1815) and by decision of the Congress of Vienna, King of Hanover (1815-20). After the dismissal of several ministers who did not satisfy him, the king found a firm supporter in Fredereick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford, Prime Minister from 1770 to 1782. Lord North executed the royal policies that provoked the American Revolution. The unsuccessful conclusion of that protracted conflict forced North to resign, and during the government crisis that followed when three cabinets came and went in less than two years. The King himself was almost induced to abdicate. In 1809 the king became blind. As early as 1765 he had suffered an apparent dementia, and in 1788 his derangement recurred to such a degree that a regency bill was passed, but the king recovered the following year. In 1811 he succumbed hopelessly to this dementia and his son, later George IV, acted as regent for the rest of his reign.
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From http://www2.prestel.co.uk/murphy/george.html
The madness of King George III
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George III was born in 1738 and ruled from 1760 to 1820. He was known a s a
particularly eccentric and stubborn character (as depicted in the recen t
stage play and film ). By 1811 he was blind and too mentally confused t o
rule, so for nine years his son George ruled as the Prince Regent befor e
finally taking the throne as George IV in 1820.
George III was subjected to "treatment" by a long successsion of court
doctors. These methods of "cure" included bloodletting with leeches,
blistering of the skin using hot glass rims, and restraining the poor f ellow
in a straightjacket or a special chair with straps.
With hindsight modern doctors now know that George III suffered from a
disease known as porphyria. This is a genetically inherited metabolic
disorder which affects the porphyrins, pigment chemicals present in the b ody
which take part in important biochemical reactions. The disease can cau se
the urine of the sufferers to be stained red or even bluey-purple. Duri ng an
acute attack sufferers may behave in manner which suggests insanity, wh ich
accounts for the erratic, "mad" and sometimes violent behaviour of King
George III.
Find out more about George III at The British Monarchy Official Website
and The UK and Ireland Genealogical Information Service.
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From http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon55.html
GEORGE III
(1760-1820 AD)
George III was born in 1738, first son of Frederick, Prince of Wales an d
Augusta. He married Charlotte of Mecklinburg-Strelitz in 1761, to whom h e
was devoted. The couple produced a prolific fifteen children: nine sons a nd
six daughters. George was afflicted with porphyria, a maddening disease
which disrupted his reign as early as 1765. Several attacks strained hi s
grip on reality and debilitated him in the last years of his reign. Per sonal
rule was given to his son George, the Prince Regent, in 1811. George II I
died blind, deaf and mad at Windsor Castle in 1820.
George III succeeded his grandfather, George II, in 1760 (Frederick, Pr ince
of Wales, had died in 1751 having never ruled). George was determined t o
recover the prerogative lost to the ministerial council by the first tw o
Georges; in the first two decades of the reign, he methodically weakene d the
Whig party through bribery, coercion and patronage. Prime Minister, Wil liam
Pitt the Elder was toppled by Whigs after the Peace of Paris, and men o f
mediocre talent and servile minds were hand-picked by George as Cabinet
members, acting as little more than yes-men. Bouts with madness and the w ay
he handled the American Revolution eroded his support and the power of t he
Crown was granted again to the Prime Minister.
The Peace of Paris (1763) ended the Seven Years' War with France, with t he
strenuous, anti-French policies of the elder Pitt emphasizing naval
superiority in the colonial warfare. Great Britain emerged from the con flict
as the world's greatest colonial power. England thrived under peacetime
conditions, but George's commitment to taxing the American colonies to p ay
for military protection led to hostilities in 1775. The colonists procl aimed
independence in 1776, but George obstinately continued the war until th e
final American victory at Yorktown in 1781. The Peace of Versailles, si gned
in 1783, ensured British acknowledgment of the United States of America . The
defeat cost George dearly: his sanity was stretched to the breaking poi nt
and his political power decreased when William Pitt the Younger became P rime
Minister in 1783. George reclaimed some of his power, driving Pitt from
office from 1801-04, but his condition worsened again and he ceased to r ule
in 1811.
The peace following the French war settlement was short-lived. A mere t en
years later, England joined a continental alliance against French
revolutionary forces who, after gaining power in France, sought total F rench
hegemony across Europe. By 1797, the largest part of Europe was under F rench
dominance, with England standing alone against the revolutionary Republ ic.
The British Navy again proved decisive, defeating French forces at
Camperdown, Cape St. Vincent and the Battle of the Nile in 1797, and fi nally
at Copenhagen in 1801. Peace was negotiated at Amiens in 1802, with the
French supreme on land and the British at sea. Napoleon Bonaparte seize d
supreme power in France at the turn of the century, and renewed attacks
against England in 1803. Hostilities with France lasted until 1814 taki ng
several forms. Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, led the land attac k;
the navy, commanded by Lord Horatio Nelson won the decisive battle off C ape
Trafalgar, and imposed a blockade of Europe to offset Napoleon's "
continental system" which was forbidden from importing British goods; a nd
the younger Pitt guided the government through the hardships of total w ar.
In addition to the continental conflict, England went to war again with t he
United States between 1812-14, over the British practice of pressing
American seamen into service in the British Navy. Both conflicts were
resolved in 1814; Napoleon was deposed and England agreed not to abscon d
with American sailors. Napoleon returned to Europe briefly in 1815, but w as
soundly defeated by continental forces led by Wellington.
Other events and people also marked the reign. A second Act of Union wa s
passed in 1801, bringing Ireland under the umbrella of Great Britain un til
the Government of Ireland Act (1920) established the modern arrangement .
Slave trade was abolished in 1807, although slavery continued in Britis h
colonies until 1833. Population increases, improvements in agricultural a nd
industrial methods and a revolution in transportation spurred British
economic growth. English literature was graced by some of its best know n
authors: Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats were among the writers of the er a.
George's madness ultimately left the fate of the crown on his eldest so n
George, Prince Regent. Prince George was put in the daunting position o f
attempting to govern according to the increasingly erratic will of his
father. A letter received by novelist E. M. Frostier from his aunt, Mar ine
Thornton, describes the situation: "... there he was sitting on the Thr one
with his King's Crown on, his robes scarlet and ermine, and held his sp eech
written out for him, just what he had to say. But, oh dear, he strode u p and
made a bow and began "My Lords and Peacocks'. The people who were not f ond
of him laughed, the people who did love him cried, and he went back to b e no
longer a king, and his eldest son reigned in his stead".
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