Frederick prince of wales death
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Frederick, Prince of Wales
Heir apparent to George II of Great Britain (1707–1751)
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| Born | (1707-01-31)31 January 1707 (New Style) Hanover, Holy Roman Empire (Germany) | ||
| Died | 31 March 1751(1751-03-31) (aged 44) Leicester House, London, England | ||
| Burial | 13 April 1751 Westminster Abbey, London | ||
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| House | Hanover | ||
| Father | George II of Great Britain | ||
| Mother | Caroline of Ansbach | ||
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Frederick, Prince of Wales (Frederick Louis, German: Friedrich Ludwig; 31 January 1707 – 31 March 1751) was the eldest son and heir apparent of King George II of Great Britain. He grew estranged from his parents, King George and Queen Caroline. Frederick was the father of King George III.
Under the Act of Settlement passed bygd the English Parliament in 1701, Frederick was fourth in the line of succession to the British throne at birth, after his gr
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Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales
Eldest son of James I and oss (1594–1612)
For other people known as Henry, Prince of Wales, see Henry, Prince of Wales.
Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, KG (19 February 1594 – 6 November 1612), was the eldest son and heir apparent of James VI and I, King of England and Scotland; and his wife Anne of Denmark. His name derives from his grandfathers: Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley; and Frederick II of Denmark. Prince Henry was widely seen as a bright and promising heir to his father's thrones. However, at the age of 18, he predeceased his father, dying of typhoid fever. His younger brother Charles succeeded him as heir apparent to the English, Irish, and Scottish thrones.
Early life
[edit]Henry was born on 19 February 1594 at Stirling Castle, Scotland, and became Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland automatically on his birth. His nurses included Mistress Primrose and Mi
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Frederick Prince of Wales
English history records several members of its Royal family dying in peculiar circumstances.
For example… King Henry I, died from eating a ‘surfeit of lampreys’ in 1135, and another, William Rufus, was shot with an arrow whilst hunting in the New Forest, Hampshire.
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.
A very English way to die!
Frederick was the eldest son of George II and became Prince of Wales in 1729. He married Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenborg, but he did not live to become king.
Unfortunately his mother and father, George II and Queen Caroline, hated Fred.
Queen Caroline is reported as saying ‘Our first-born is the greatest ass, the greatest liar, the greatest canaille and the greatest beas