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  1. Signature. Frederick, Prince of Wales (Frederick Louis, German: Friedrich Ludwig; 31 January 1707 – 31 March 1751) was the eldest son and heir apparent of King George II of Great Britain. He grew estranged from his parents, King George and Queen Caroline. Frederick was the father of King George III . Under the Act of Settlement passed by the ...

  2. Frederick Louis, prince of Wales (born Jan. 6, 1707, Hannover, Hanover—died March 20, 1751, London) was the prince of Wales, eldest son of King George II of Great Britain (reigned 1727–60) and father of King George III (reigned 1760–1820); his bitter quarrel with his father helped bring about the downfall of the King’s prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole, in 1742.

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  3. Frederick was the eldest son of George II and became Prince of Wales in 1729. He married Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenborg, but he did not live to become king. Unfortunately his mother and father, George II and Queen Caroline, hated Fred. Queen Caroline is reported as saying ‘Our first-born is the greatest ass, the greatest liar, the greatest ...

  4. Frederick Prince of Wales (1707-1751), who died before his father, and therefore never became king. Frederick is best-known today for the epic rows he had with his dad, George II. Each Georgian ...

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  6. Frederick, Prince of Wales (Frederick Louis, German: Friedrich Ludwig; 31 January 1707 – 31 March 1751) was the eldest son and heir apparent of King George II of Great Britain. He grew estranged from his parents, King George and Queen Caroline. Frederick was the father of King George III.

  7. Mar 3, 2001 · Richard Cavendish marks the somewhat mysterious death of a Georgian prince, on March 20th, 1751. Portrait of Frederick, Prince of Wales How Frederick Louis, the eldest son of George II and Queen Caroline, came to meet his death, a few weeks after his forty-fourth birthday, is not quite certain. A keen games player, he was struck hard by a ball ...

  8. Frederick Lewis, prince of Wales (1707–51). Eldest son of George II and Queen Caroline; father of George III. For most of his life Frederick was at odds with his parents, and by the mid-1730s he had become a willing tool of opposition politicians, hopeful of serving him when he became king. Brought up in Hanover, he came to England in 1728.

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