Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen
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Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Queen of Hanover from 26 June 1830 to 20 June 1837 as the wife of King William IV. Adelaide was the daughter
Portrait by Sir William Beechey, c. 1831
Elisabethenburg Palace, the residence of the reigning Dukes of Saxe-Meiningen
Bushy House in Teddington, west London
Portrait of Queen Adelaide painted by John Simpson in 1832
Ernest Augustus was King of Hanover from 20 June 1837 until his death in 1851. As the fifth son of George III of the United Kingdom and Hanover, he initially seemed unlikely to become a monarch, but n
Portrait of a young Ernest by Thomas Gainsborough, 1782
c. 1795 portrait of Ernest
An 1823 miniature of Ernest based on an 1802 portrait by William Beechey
A George Cruikshank cartoon mocking Ernest at the 1815 defeat of his increased allowance. The brown section at lower right covers an image of the ghost of Sellis (visible if enlarged), who hints at the Duke's involvement in his death (Cruikshank self-censored most copies for fear of a libel suit).