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William IV was the grand duke of Luxembourg (1905–12), the eldest son of grand duke Adolf of Nassau. Falling severely ill soon after his accession, he eventually on March 19, 1908, had his consort Maria Anna of Braganza named regent, or governor (Statthalterin).
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William IV was nearly 65 years old when he was crowned king of Great Britain and Ireland in 1830. He ruled for only seven years. The most significant event of his reign was the passage, despite his opposition, of a major parliamentary reform bill. The third son of King George III, William was born in London, England, on August 21, 1765.
The coronation of William IV and his wife, Adelaide, as king and queen of the United Kingdom took place on Thursday, 8 September 1831, over fourteen months after he succeeded to the throne of the United Kingdom at the age of 64, the oldest person to assume the throne until Charles III in 2022. The ceremony was held in Westminster Abbey after a ...
William IV, later Duke of Clarence, was the third son of George III and Queen Charlotte. ‘The Sailor King’, he spent much of his early life at sea. In 1818 he married Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen; sadly none of their children survived to adulthood. William succeeded his brother, George IV.
May 25, 2020 · King William IV. George III died in 1820, with George IV taking the throne. Given that George’s heirs had died, and that their brother Frederick, Duke of York died in 1827, William became first in line for the throne. When George IV died on 26 June 1830, William IV ascended the throne. William had rather reformed himself since marriage; he ...
Jan 21, 2019 · Slavery connections. According to Dr Brooke Newman, ‘As political debates about the African slave trade escalated in the 1790s and early nineteenth century, Prince William, now the Duke of Clarence, emerged as a vocal defender of colonial slavery and a leading ally of the West India Committee in London. In 1799, in a reprinted and widely ...
