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However, Sophia died before Anne, in June 1714 when aged 83, which elevated the Elector to heir-presumptive; Queen Anne died on 1 August the same year, and Sophia's son became King George I. This made Frederick's father first-in-line to the British throne and Frederick himself second-in-line.
Mar 3, 2001 · Frederick’s wife at the foot of the bed caught up a candle and ran to him, but he was dead. The post mortem gave the cause of death as suffocation after the ‘imposthume’ or abscess broke, but the general medical opinion was that he died of pneumonia.
Aug 31, 2024 · Frederick having died in 1751, his eldest son, George, succeeded to the throne as George III in 1760. This article was most recently revised and updated by Encyclopaedia Britannica .
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Poor Edmund Ironside died in 1016 while ‘relieving the calls of nature over a pit’, and was stabbed in the bowels with a dagger. But the strangest death must be that of Frederick, Prince of Wales who died, some sources claim, after being hit with a cricket-ball.
On 15 March, Frederick was reported to be "out of danger" but his illness continued. On 20 March, he died. It is believed that his death was connected to an accident he had whilst playing cricket: he was hit by the ball. His father, George II outlived his eldest son, dying in 1760. Meet the web creator.
In 1610 he was created Prince of Wales. But he died suddenly, probably due to typhoid fever, on 6th November 1612. His body lay in state for a month at St James' Palace until his funeral at Westminster Abbey on 7th December (parallel funerals were also held in Oxford, Cambridge and Bristol).
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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...
