george iv

18 May 1778 - Walnut Grove Manor, Philadelphia, Colony/Commonwealth of Pennsylvania There are a lot of things on William Howe's mind, most of them to do with the week facing him, his last week in America. Why what will they make of him back home? Why he may have conquered New York and seized...

King George III and Queen Charlotte had 15 children, 13 of whom survived childhood. However during the final years of George III's reign a succession crisis occurred following the death of Princess Charlottee in 1817, as none of the king's children had legitimate children, which led to a rush of...

IOTL they had an awful relationship, hated each other's guts and only had one daughter who died young: Charlotte of Wales. But what if they had gotten over their mutual distaste enough to produce these children (2, 3, and 4 are triplets): 1. Charlotte b. 1796 m. 1816 Leopold, King of the...

King George IV (1820 - 1827) NB: A Simplified Timeline of George IV's reign can be found by clicking here. Part One: The Prince of Fools Haddon Hall is a perfect example of the English country house. Tucked neatly in a bend in the River Wye near Bakewell in Derbyshire, it is acknowledged as...

George IV's divorce from Karoline of Brunswick was a cause celebre in its day. I can't remember the details of the case offhand (beyond that it was unsuccessful), but I was more wondering about what was Georgie Porgie's game plan? It can't have been to remarry and beget more heirs, since even as...

So I've been reading Janice Hadlow's excellent A Royal Experiment, a biography on the marriages of the Hanoverian Royal line,just finished the chapter on George III's 1788-89 madness and its got me thinking; what if, instead of recovering, George III went permanently mad in 1789? How would...

We all know about her unhappy marriage with the future George IV, but which gave rise to several interesting comments from her: When asked about her wedding night, she responded that the prince was drunk and spent the night in the grate "where he fell, and where I left him". When she heard the...

There were several requests from both George IV and William IV to have the young princess Alexandrina Victoria brought up in the royal household, whilst the duchess of Kent reviled the idea of allowing her daughter out of her sight. What would've it have meant if the future Victoria were brought...