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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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  4. Frederick Louis (or Lewis), Prince of Wales, K.G., was born on 20th January 1707 at Hanover in Germany and died 31st March 1751 in London. He was the eldest son of King George II and father of George III and was a great patron of the arts, residing at Carlton House. His death was blamed on a burst abcess in the lung "under the sternum bone ...

  5. Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh. Categories: Frederick, Prince of Wales. Children by person.

  6. Du Pan was a Swiss portrait painter who came to England in 1743, perhaps planning to replace Jean-Baptiste Vanloo (1684-1745), an artist of similar elegantly French style who left England in 1742. Both artists worked for the Prince of Wales. This group portrait of 1746 depicts the six eldest children of Frederick, Prince of Wales, playing in a landscape which appears to be at the margin ...

  7. Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales (1707-51) Born 1707, Leine Palace [Hanover] Died 1751, Cliveden [Buckinghamshire] Frederick was born at Leine Palace in Hanover. He spent much of his youth there and was on poor terms with his father. In 1736 he married Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg; their children included the future George III.

  8. George III (r. 1760-1820) George III was born on 4 June 1738 in London, the eldest son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. He became heir to the throne on the death of his father in 1751, succeeding his grandfather, George II, in 1760. He was the third Hanoverian monarch and the first one to be born in England and ...

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