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- FitzClarence committed suicide at the age of 48 in London. He shot himself with a pistol presented to him by King George IV, then Prince of Wales.
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Lieutenant Hon Edward FitzClarence (8 July 1837 – 23 July 1855); unmarried, died of wounds during the Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War. Death. FitzClarence committed suicide at the age of 48 in London. He shot himself with a pistol presented to him by King George IV, then Prince of Wales.
George FitzClarence, Earl of Munster committed suicide at the age of 48 in London. He is reported to have shot himself with a pistol presented to him by his uncle King George IV when he was Prince of Wales.
While Lord Munster is survived by three daughters, the earldom created for William and Dorothy's son, George FitzClarence, in 1831 was entailed for a male heir, and so the title now dies.
It has been suggested that Charlotte may have died as a result of porphyria, inherited from her grandfather, George III. Soon after the Regent was awoken by his brother, the Duke of York and informed that his only daughter was dead. Highly emotional by nature, George was extremely distraught.
The Duke of Clarence's eldest surviving illegitimate child, George FitzClarence (1794–1842), was created Earl of Munster in 1831 and his male-line was continued until the death of the 7th Earl of Munster in 2000.
When George IV died on 26 June 1830 without surviving legitimate issue, William succeeded him as William IV. Aged 64, he was the oldest person at that point to assume the British throne, a distinction he would hold until surpassed by Charles III in 2022.
Death. FitzClarence died at the age of 48 in London. He was succeeded in the earldom and other titles by his eldest son, William.
