Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, was a British prince and field marshal, the nephew and son-in-law of King George III. He was the only son of Prince William Henry, Duke of G
The Duke of Gloucester, c. late 1810s
The Duke of Gloucester in an engraving based on a portrait painted by Sir William Beechey, published 1826
Prince William was a regular guest at Earlham Hall, seat of the Gurney family who, like William, were abolitionists and Whigs
Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh was the eleventh child and fourth daughter of King George III and his consort Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
…Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, and Maria Walpole, making him a grandson of Frederick, Prince of Wales and of Edward Walpole. In 1816, he married Princess Mary, the fourth daughter of George III. William Frederick was born on 15 January 1776 at Palazzo Teodoli in via del Corso, Rome. His father was Prince…
Portrait by Antoine Claudet, c. 1856
Mary as an infant with her elder siblings (Augusta, Elizabeth, Ernest, Augustus, and Adolphus) in 1776, by Benjamin West
Princess Mary painted by Thomas Gainsborough in 1782
Portrait by Peter Edward Stroehling, 1807