#william iv

[diemelusine]

Portrait of Lady Augusta FitzClarence Kennedy-Erskine (natural daughter of King William IV) with her children (c. 1830) by John Hayter. House of Dun.

[royalty-nobility]

Portrait of William IV

Artist: Jacques-André-Joseph Aved (French, 1702-1766)

Date: 1751

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

William IV, Prince of Orange

William IV (1711 – 1751) was Prince of Orange from birth and the first hereditary stadtholder of all the United Provinces of the Netherlands from 1747 until his death in 1751.

[dukeofbekasi]

my babykin looks so cute 😭

[blogdemocratesjr]

'Our Citizen King'

Philip Ziegler, King William IV

[eternal-rav3n]

GO GET EM BOYS

[wardrobeoftime]

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story + Costumes

Prince William, Duke of Clarence and St Andrews' black suit, white shirt and creme & golden vest in Season 01, Episode 05.

// requested by anonymous

[apinchofm]

THE CHILDREN OF KING GEORGE III & QUEEN CHARLOTTE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

The royal couple welcomed a total of fifteen children together, but sadly not all of them survived into adulthood. Two, Prince Octavius and Prince Alfred, passed away in infancy, at the ages of 2 and 4, respectively, from smallpox. Later on, Princess Amelia also sadly died young, albeit it at the age of 27, after succumbing to tuberculosis. As for when their brood started to arrive, it seems George and Charlotte wasted no time in getting to know one another and less than a year into their marriage, on 12 August 1762

[tiny-librarian]

On this day in history, March 4th, in 1821, Princess Elizabeth of Clarence died of an intro-susception of the bowels. She was a little over two months old, and was the daughter of the future William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.

She had been born prematurely, and was quickly baptized the day of her birth. She was christened Elizabeth Georgina Adelaide, with the initial choice of her parents being the name Georgina. Her uncle, George IV, wanted her to be called Elizabeth instead so Georgina would become her second name.

Her parents had already suffered the loss another daughter, Charlotte, who died on the day of her birth, and a miscarriage. Two years after Elizabeth’s death, Adelaide gave birth to stillborn twin boys, and possibly had another miscarriage that same year. Ultimately, they had no surviving children and when William died, the throne passed to his niece, Queen Victoria.