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Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (German: Ernst August; 21 September 1845 – 14 November 1923), was the eldest child and only son of George V of Hanover and his wife, Marie of Saxe-Altenburg.
On 23 April 1799, Ernest Augustus was created Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale and Earl of Armagh by his father the king. With a seat in the House of Lords, he took an interest in politics. Ernest held radical Tory views, and soon became a leader of the right of the party, he opposed Catholic emancipation and the Reform Act.
Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, was the eldest child and only son of George V of Hanover and his wife, Marie of Saxe-Altenburg. Ernest Augustus was deprived of the throne of Hanover upon its annexation by Prussia in 1866 and later the Duchy of Brunswick in 1884.
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The present heir is Prince Ernst August of Hanover (born 26 February 1954), great grandson of the 3rd Duke and current head of the House of Hanover. He is the senior male-line descendant of George III of the United Kingdom .
- 24 April 1799
- Prince Ernest Augustus
Jul 19, 1998 · Ernest Augustus (born June 5, 1771, Kew, Surrey, Eng.—died Nov. 18, 1851, Herrenhausen, Hanover [Germany]) was the king of Hanover, from 1837 to 1851, the fifth son of George III of England.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Ernst August, Hereditary Prince of Brunswick, Prince of Hanover [1] ( German: Ernst August Prinz von Hannover; 18 March 1914 – 9 December 1987) was head of the House of Hanover from 1953 until his death in 1987. From his birth until the German Revolution of 1918–1919 he was the heir apparent to the Duchy of Brunswick, a state of the German Empire .
Prince Ernest Augustus, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale. Categories: Royalty. Countries: Germany. Image source: british-miniatures20c.blogspot.co.uk. Born in Hanover as the Crown Prince of the Hanoverian royal family but also related to the British royals.
