Dorothea Jordan
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Dorothea Jordan was an Anglo-Irish actress, as well as a courtesan. She was the long-time partner of Prince William, Duke of Clarence, and the mother of 10 illegitimate children by him, all of whom to
Dorothea Jordan as Rosalind by William Beechey, 1787
Mrs. Jordan in her role of Peggy in The Country Girl, David Garrick's tamer adaption of Wycherley's earlier, more scandalous play The Country Wife
Portrait of the Duke of Clarence by Martin Archer Shee, 1800. Jordan was in a long-standing relationship with the third son of George III, who later inherited the throne as William IV.
In this 1791 James Gillray cartoon, Jordan is depicted in bed with the Duke of Clarence.
William IV
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William IV was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837. The third son of George III, William succeeded his elder brother G
Portrait of William IV (1833)
William (left), aged thirteen, and his younger brother Edward, painted by Benjamin West, 1778
Prince William at the age of 17, by Thomas Gainsborough, c. September 1782