Princess Sophia of Gloucester was a great-granddaughter of King George II of Great Britain and niece of King George III.
Portrait by Sir William Beechey, c. 1803-5
Princess Sophia as a young child.
Maria Walpole
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Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh was a member of the British royal family. She was the Countess Waldegrave from 1759 to 1766, as a result of her first marriage to James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl
Princess Sophia of Gloucester
…Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, the third son of The Prince Frederick, Prince of Wales. Her mother, the Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, born Maria Walpole, was the illegitimate daughter of Sir Edward Walpole. She was privately baptized in a drawing room at her parents' home in Mayfair, Gloucester House…
Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1779
Maria and her daughter Elizabeth by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1761.
Maria (in mourning), by Gainsborough.
The Ladies Waldegrave by Sir Joshua Reynolds (L to R: Charlotte, Elizabeth and Anne)