william iv

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...

Europe in 1815 -A young boy named Giuseppe Garibaldi dies at the age of 10 in obscurity in 1817 -Camillo Benso, son of Michele Giuseppe Francesco Antonio Benso, 4th Marquess of Cavour and Count of Isolabella dies at the age of 10 in obscurity -All of the children of King William IV and...

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Dowager Duchess of Kent and Strathearn and Sir John Conroy As we well know, during her childhood Queen Victoria was under the rigid Kensington System, it was created to govern her education, with the intention that if Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld...

I was reading some history and discovered an interesting fact I never knew about. George III's son, Prince William Henry (The future William IV) was stationed in New York, as young naval officer. So, the Culper Ring hatched an operation to kidnap the prince and hold him hostage. This operation...

Not discussing how alternate successions to the crown could have gone; rather, what other names the monarchs that did reign could have taken. A King of Queen can take either their first name, or a middle name. The current monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, uses her first name (Elizabeth Alexandra...

So, unfortunate timing, but I had been reading the wiki article (I know, I know...) on the Palace of Westminster, and it mentioned that after the 1834 fire there were 97 designs submitted. I was wondering if anybody knew where I might be able to find them. Sadly, the wiki footnotes lead to a...

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...

I was recently reading about the life of King William IV of England and was interested to find that he had a lucky escape at the 1813 Battle of Antwerp. How, in your opinion, might history have changed had he not dodged this particular bullet?