Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, was a grandson of George II and a younger brother of George III of the United Kingdom.
Prince William Henry, c. 1800
William Henry (left) with his brother Henry, from a family group portrait of 1751.
William Henry, aged 11, by Liotard
The Duke by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1775
George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with George as its king. He was concurrently Duke and Prince-elector of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire before becoming King of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was a monarch of the House of Hanover, who, unlike his two predecessors, was born in Great Britain, spoke English as his first language, and never visited Hanover.
Coronation portrait, 1762
Prince George (right), his brother Prince Edward, and their tutor, Francis Ayscough (later Dean of Bristol), by Richard Wilson, c. 1749
Pastel portrait of George as Prince of Wales by Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1754
Portrait by Allan Ramsay, 1762