she did, indeed, marry King George on the same day she arrived in England. On August 17, 1761, Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and her brother, Adolphus Frederick IV, Duke of Mecklenburg ...

After Charlotte, the expected heiress to the throne, died in childbirth, the race was on among George IV's siblings to have a legitimate child to be the next heir. 2. Prince Frederick, Duke of ...

Who was the more successful? Who was the more capable? Who accumulated the most victories? Who has the greatest legacy? Who is better loved by modern historians? Let us step back into 19th-century ...

1st Duke of Wellington, was a British soldier and statesman who lived between the years of 1769 and 1852. He lived during the ...

However, the carefully planned extravaganza was threatened by the one person King George did not want to ... according to the Duke of Wellington, “even in the most important and solemn ...

The Duke of ... satirists delighted in Wellington's reputation. Affairs at Westminster were no less fraught. Demand for reform refused to quieten. In 1828, George IV asked Wellington to become ...

Established in 1829 by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington, the then Prime Minister, it is the fourth oldest university in England. KCL is now the largest healthcare learning centre in Europe, ...

the Duke of Buckingham, and bought by King George III for his wife in 1761. It was transformed into a palace under King George IV between 1830 and 1837 and became a royal residence from then - but ...