King George III’s Sons, Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2024
- King George III’s Sons, Part 1: The Heir, the Spare and the Spare Spare
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King George III of Great Britain and of Ireland and his German wife, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz had a close and loving relationship which resulted in an astonishing 15 Children! George's sons were far too interested in their lovers to contract legal royal marriages and produce legitimate heirs to the throne. Towards the end of King George’s life he didn’t have a single legitimate grandchild, and parliament had to bribe the middle aged princes to finally walk down the aisle. The result was Queen Victoria who had to deal with bad reputations of her wicked uncles for years to come. Let’s meet King George III’s 15 children, beginning with the eldest 3 sons, two of who became Kings.
King George IV of the UK
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany
King William IV of the UK
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Fun fact, Prince Regent George IV was a huge fan of Jane Austen and had copies of her books in all his palaces. She was required to dedicate one book to him but she hated his guts and the wickedness of some of her characters was very similar to how the Prince acted.
And these days, Durham College, among others, have banned the reading of Jane Austen’s books. Evilness is afoot.
@@shawnaweesner3759 Why were they banned?
@@eileenbradley9838 cause Britain 🇬🇧 despite having godamn figure heads still act autocratic, I mean just look at how they deal with people who vocally say they don't like Charles. Outside the country.....idk😅🤣😂🤷
@@shawnaweesner3759 shite anyway
@@redadmiralofvalyria867 um the event where he had eggs thrown at him was actual assault and humiliation too, even a normal person can report ..
Well George and Charlotte kinda shot themselves in the foot for not letting their daughters marry until they were past child bearing age. Otherwise, they'd have more legitimate grandchildren, even if they were far far down the line of succession.
George III sisters made very unhappy marriages to foreign princes/kings. He loved his daughters so much he couldn't bear the thought of making them go through arranged marriages
@@lauravalentine9488 That’s not love. That’s selfishness.
@@shawnaweesner3759 The daughters had no frame of reference for unhappy royal marriages, as their parents’ was a storybook love. The eligible royal men in Europe at the time were all despicable and would have treated them horrifically. It’s terrible for us to hear about the women not being allowed to marry, but keep in mind that most of them (allegedly) still had lovers and (allegedly) illegitimate children.
@@HorsesIC wow way too go! Kudos to you for knowing more information and painting a clearer picture. Somethings we think correlate with our understanding of "how things are" and confuse that for what they think how things should work. There's some easily overlooked causes for things because of how different civilizations operate.
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I love that this ends with basically 'yeah after William died Edward's daughter Victoria became queen, who's Edward? Who cares, anyway in the next episode-'
I should imagine the other sons, including Edward, will be covered in part three.
I do know there will be a part 2 for the rest of the sons. I just thought that the pharsing of the ending was funny. That she just mentioned Edward just being Victoria's dad then went to talking about the next installment being about the daughters. Kind of like Edward was getting snubbed all together.
I’m guessing it will be a later episode in this series, hence the ‘part one’.
Kairi Hughes Prince Edward, The Duke of Kent and Strathearn was the 4th son of King George III
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It’s been said that William said that he would not die until Victoria became 18. He was close to Victoria but despised her mother and her paramour. He did not wish them to have control over Victoria. And he did it! 👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺👍👍👍
Don’t blame him either. John Conroy was a massive jerk! Thank goodness he lived to see his niece reach her 18th birthday.
he did'nt want the Duchess of Kent to be Victoria's regent,Victoria came of age on 24 may 1837, the King fell seriously ill on May20 but managed to live on to 20 June, so he did get his wish!
"'A divorced Catholic??' Dad did sigh, but the mad old goat just wouldn't die!" -George IV (Horrible Histories)
😂😂😂😂
And all those pies that I had gone through meant ten years later I died to.
@@margaretkairu7418 "And knowing now that I did hate her, she promptly died just three weeks later" 😂😂😂
(My favourite part)
George III: Still here! :3 Whoop! Spoke too soon!
Nah cause that man lived to be 81 😭
“Actresses and Duchesses, the great loves of my life. I loved more girls than I ate pies, but I couldn’t stand my wife!”
I was like "why 'part 1'? Why not talk about all of them in just one video?" then Lindsay reminded me how many kids George III had and I was like "Oh... That's why" 🤣
😂😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣
Yes there's a lot of kids, like wow.
Yeah, Queen Victoria’s kids took up multiple videos and she only had nine.
Yeah, I knew they had way too many kids for one video
@@ladyagnes9430 sometimes I forgot that they were so many 🤣
If King William IV was the oldest king to be crowned so far, that means King Charles III just broke his record.
Honestly, I think the fact that so many of George III’s sons grew up so rebellious says as much about their father as them.
If George III was my father, I’d probably rebel too.
I just wanted to say none of the reasons why George and his wife hated each other had to do with them being cousins.
Have to feel sorry for King William IV on the loss of so many of his children in infancy. To have had all of his five legitimate children die as infants must have broken the poor chap, especially given the fact that nearly all of his illegitimate children, who were ineligible to succeed him as monarch, survived him.
It is really quite amazing whether you realize it or not how important a British king George lll was. The United States of America might not exist today if it was not for him. The American Revolutionary War was fought to escape from his rule. He was the grandfather of Queen Victoria who ruled at the height of the British Empire. Because of George lll's huge family, almost all rulers of German, British & European royal families today can claim some kind of descendancy from him more than 200 years after his death.
George III in Hamilton: When you're gone, I'll go mad.
George III to his eldest son: When you're dead, I don't care.
I think the Hanover kings had a tradition of hating their eldest sons and heirs. George I and George II were not close, George II & his wife Caroline famously hated their eldest son (George III father) and rejoiced when he died
@@lauravalentine9488 Exactly. It's kinda funny how Hanover Kings hated their sons while their sons hated them.
@@lauravalentine9488 Even Queen Victoria, the last of the Hanoverians disliked her first son, Albert Edward. The Hanoverians really hate their sons.
@@Imanina-kh1ju that's true. She blamed Edward for Prince Albert's early death, and she hated that Edward wasn't more like his father. If she had given him a job instead of him being an heir in waiting he might not have been such a playboy
@@lauravalentine9488 Interestingly, the Hohenzollern royal family of Prussia had a track record for being usually faithful husbands...AND great kids (Frederick William II being an ugly exception). It was commonplace for the spare princes and even the heirs to join the army as officers, many of whom rose to the rank of general (for example, the future Wilhelm I served under his brother King Frederick William IV for many years). Some credit the strict military discipline of the family for keeping it usually more moral. The result was at least some of the happiest royal marriages I've ever read of.
Please could you make a video on Rani Lakshmi Bai the noble queen of Jhansi and the Rajiya sultan of Delhi. They both were really amazing women and I think that everyone shall be intrested to know about these inspiring women....😊
Yes please! I've been asking her for years!
That would be amazing! More people need to know about them!
Ooo.... yes you should definitely cover them cuz they both were really great warriors. I'm so proud that they were my Queens .
Yes absolutely they both were truly greatest women in world. Much better than most kings.
You've piqued my interest!
William: Papa, make me a Duke.
George III: Well... I mean... maybe-
William: I swear to God, I will run for a seat in the House of Commons!!
George III: Yes, yes a dukedom, no problem! Would you also like a pony? How about a nice big ship?
I am pretty sure george said that sarcastically😂😂😂😂😂😂
Fifteen children? Yes, I'd say that's being faithful to one's wife.
Pretty hard to tomcat around when you're busy maintaining the royal bloodline.
They 1 upped my Dad (but my Dad was married 3 times & had a total of 14 kids. 7 by the 1st wife, 5 by my Mom- Wife# 2, & 2 by the 3rd wife- my Bonus Mom).... They make my 7 kids seem like a small number...
My esteemed brother-in-law was the baby of 13.
Video request: monarchs with the most children
I love Queen Charlotte! I always love to tell people I live close to Charlotte, NC, which was named after her.
She brought the Christmas tree to England.🌲
@@margaretkairu7418 I thought that was Prince Albert, Victoria's husband?
Hello fellow Carolinian 🙋
Never knew the grand old Duke of York was about Frederick! You learn something new every day! One of my favourites when I was small
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany KG GCB GCH (Frederick Augustus; 16 August 1763 - 5 January 1827) was the second son of George III, King of the United Kingdom and Hanover, and his consort Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
A soldier by profession, from 1764 to 1803 he was Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück in the Holy Roman Empire.
From the death of his father in 1820 until his own death in 1827, he was the heir presumptive to his elder brother, George IV, in both the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Hanover.
I’ve sang the rhyme ‘The Grand Old Duke of York’ since I was a child, I never knew who it was actually about!
Who was it about again?
@@charliesmith_ wow cooll! Can you tell me more about that abd how it cane about? Because those ages their were a lot of "battles" and wars everywhere around the world
What was the lyrics?
OMG YES!!! I just rewatched the Hanoverian queens and consorts video and I really find them interesting so it's nice that your upload for this week is about King George III older sons. Thanks Lindsay! I really enjoyed watching your videos. 🥰
Actually, Britain, abolished the slave trade in 1807. Britain, wouldn't abolish slavery throughout the empire until 1833.
The Fitz In surnames is Anglo-Norman that came to England with William of Normandy when he became king and brought over his language along with many nobles. It was used before surnames were used.
I love that he had two daughters named Charlotte and Amelia because my name is Charlotte and my older sister's name is Amelia.
Oh wow😮
I cannot begin to tell you how long I have been longing for a video such as this. You are truly Godsent Lindsay. May you always produce such fascinating content
Princess Caroline of Monaco is married to a descendant of the 5th son of George the Third.Currently Caroline is a princess of Hanover being married to Ernst Augustus current head of the house of Hanover.House of Hanover,a cadet branch of the house of Welf,came to the british throne in 1713 with George the first elector of Hanover.Both states were ruled together in a personal union until 1837 with accession of queen Victoria and Hanover became separated because of salic law in Hanover that didn't allow female monarchs.Instead Ernst Augustus duke of Cumberland 5th son of George III became the first king of Hanover.Hanover was later taken over by Prussia later on in the century but the royal family still exists and Caroline's husband is the current head.
Interesting! Just a correction, 'Fitz' actually comes from French/Norman 'fils', and was used in the British Isles as a translation of the old Germanic patronym in -son, so FitzPatrick instead of Patrickson...
Cool!😎I didn’t know that.🤔
The first thing I thought of when I read this was, "Oh, so Maddie's name is essentially Patrickson!" (If you don't get that reference, you're lame. No jk it's Maddie Fitzpatrick from the suite life of Zack and Cody)
This is timely. Just watched Queen Charlotte's ep on this channel because of Brigerton hahahahha! Thanks Lindsay ♥️
Excellent as always. Just what I've been hoping for.
Thank you for covering this! I just thought to myself the other day that I'd love to hear your way of telling the personal stories of each and every child of George III ❤️
The Hanover dynasty is by far my absolute favorite to learn about!
7:04 the Napoleonic Wars were long over by the time of King George IV ascension to the British throne. Admiral Nelson was long dead as well he died during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
Fitz means 'son of' hence Fitz-Clarence is the son of Clarence; it was in common use for centuries, not associated with royals or nobility, though kings would bestow FitzRoy - son of the King/Roi - on their illegitimate sons. Equivalents include 'Mac-' (Scotland); '-sen' (Dutch) as in Jansen or Jan's son; 'ibn' (Arabic); '-ovich' (Slavic) Abramovich, son of Abraham; and so on.
Great video! As always you go into detail and I just LOVE this channel! Keep up the great work!
Really interesting history lesson! I DO love your videos and your voice is always so perky and upbeat! Thank you. Can't wait for part two!
I can't wait to see more of the children! This is awesome!
I'd love a more extensive video on Queen Victoria in her days before her husband died and after. 💕
Alexandrina Victoria
Yes! This is the video series I requested! I think it's because I am watching Bridgerton.
Thank you, thank you for making this video. I was waiting for one on George III’s children for quite some time.
I think this is the only video on RUclips that focuses exclusively on the children of George iii AND has a sound narrative instead of just subtitles
William iv seems the best out of his sons to me
Yes. But he was a bit of a rascal considering he never sired a legitimate son. Silly git.
@@ChibiProwl haha true
I've been waiting for this for so long, Love, love, love it ❤️💋☺️
Another great video! I can't wait for the videos on the rest of the siblings.
I believe Maria Fitzherbert’s name would have been pronounced as Ma-rye-a, like Mariah Carey, not Ma-ree-a. That was the standard pronunciation in England at the time. Ma-ree-a was the pronunciation in some other European countries and later took over in England. Something to remember when you’re reading Jane Austen or any other author of that era. 😉
I think the same also applies to the name Sophia, so it would have been pronounced So-fire rather than So-fee-a in England. But I could be wrong about that one.
Anyway, good video. Looking forward to the rest of the series covering the lesser known children. I do like the Georgian and Regency eras.
How did you learn that about the pronunciation of Maria? 🤔A book? 🤔If it is a book, can you please tell me? 😎I love learning new things.😎
@@ChibiProwl No one particular source, it’s just something I’ve heard and read multiple times over the years. For example, watch any drama or documentary about the Brontë sisters, their mother and eldest sister (who died) were both called Maria, and the actors and narrators always pronounce it Mariah.
@@kate_cooper Thank you.😌
Thanks for that. There's a street in my town called Sophia Street. It's always been pronounced So-fire, but when I once told someone that they didn't believed me.
Very interesting. I have heard that Mary was pronounced May-ree, with the accent on the May part, in English, before it started to be pronounced Mare-ee, later on.
Thank You Lindsay!!💜✨
i've been waiting on this one for so long!!
From the video I learned that "Fitz" in a surname meant an illegitimate child of a nobleman Never knew that.
Not always. At first it just meant son. The same as Mac or Mc does in Scotland and Ireland. The O' in Irish surnames means grandson of. Thrre are several Irish families that use Fitz as well which indicates their descent from the Anglo-Normana who settled in Ireland during the Middle Ages
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Oh, I see. Thanks. I guess "Fitz" *might* indicate an illegitimate child of a nobleman then.
Didn't know that about the " O " in Irish surnames meaning "grandson of". Interesting. I suppose naming family relationships couldn't go beyond "grandson of"?
Fitz just means 'son of' king Henry's the 8th illigetament son was called fitzroy (Roy being short for royal i believe) meaning 'son of the king' fitzclarence means 'son of the Duke of Clarence' using a real world, but unlikely example here. If Charles had a child with Camila before their marriage (during his marriage to Diana or even during their flings prior to that) that child could have had the last name fitzwales, fitzcornwall, fitzrothesay, fitzchester, or any of his other titles. (If illegitimate children were still names that way. They aren't of course)
@@nancyjohnson7147 Roy comes from the French word Roi meaning king
@@pedanticradiator1491 thank you I wasn't totally sure
I have been waiting for this one! They are so interesting. And I had no clue about the nursery rhyme, sang that all the time when I was younger.
So excited for this!
Yessss I've been waiting for this forever!!!
Fascinating how the royal family seems to alternate generations between good and faithful spouses and lots of mistresses and scandals... let's hope Prince George can break the pattern..
I mean, the dude’s nine. Still plenty of time to hope… whether if there’s a country for him to inherit or not.
Not that I give much credence to gossip, but there are lots of rumors about both Prince Philip’s rumored love child (who apparently really resembles him) and the stories that William cheated on Kate, so at this point, I’m more concerned with George and his siblings breaking out from the cycle of generational trauma that has tortured the family for generations, and is likely the reason we see so many “wild child” royals who have issues with their parents, both historically and today.
Are you saying Queen Elizabeth's dad (George VI) was chronically unfaithful? Doubt it.
@@lilymarinovic1644 Edward VIII and Duke of Kent were notorious playboys... GVI was just the exception to the rule..
@@chadoakley8505 same with Prince Edward - apart from the vaguen rumours he was gay when he was younger, no reported scandal.
Queen Elizabeth II came from a huge family 😳😁
I love these videos from the Georgian era. So excited for this !
YES!! I've been waiting for this episode.
Fitz is actually a word of Norman origin and not Anglo-Saxon. From the French Fils, meaning Son of.
I've been waiting for This ❤️❤️
Love this series and all your videos
Would love to see a series based on The descendants of Eugène de Beauharnais (son of Empress Josephine)
Please make about Aztec monarchy
Thats sounds hard. I wonder where are the historical sources.
@@smilesface3741 Historical sources of every kingdom or monarchy are available . In American continent it may be destroyed by colonizers
Another brilliant and beautifully presented history. Love from England.
It turns out all were needed! If there had been no William then Victoria would have come the throne before reaching the age of majority and a Regent would have been necessary (for seven years), probably her Mother, the Duchess of Kent. What an incredible difference that would have made.
Thank you for sharing this
Great video!
Love your videos
Oh that's where that nursery rhyme came from😂
Well Queen Victoria was almost 1 year old as was one of her paternal cousins when their 82 year old grandpa, King George III died (grandpa was old enough to be great grandpa as their Dads were old enough to be their grandpas)....
It’s about time we heard more about these interesting royal sons.
Thanks!
Thank you very much , I was waiting for a video on George the third's children 👍👍👍👍
Lindsay please upload George lll
hello lindsay just came across your youtube channel the kings and queens of our country are so different from each other it makes you want to find out more about them a very interesting subject is history thanks yours avon leicestershire 2022
Last time I was this early England was a Protectorate
Nice
Ofd topic; I was reading this alternate story in which queen Mary 1 gave birth to A son which she named after her father.
Where is this story
@@bow35yearsago65 It was on the alternate history wiki.
Very interesting
Lindsay please do the Legitimate grandchildren of George iii since George iii have many grandchildren but if you exclude the illegitimate it only came down to Charlotter of wales, Queen Victoria, William iv and adelaide 2 daughters who wasn't died in the womb, The last king of hanover and his forgotter dead sister and the last son of george iii who married but his descendant got excluded from succession because their mom is a commoner.
The Duke of Cambridge also had legitimate children one of whom was the mother of George V's wife Mary of Teck
@@pedanticradiator1491 oh yeah! I totally forgot that, thanks for informing me
Lindsay I love your voice! So entrancing!!! So am I crazy (and just listened to your videos on this channel) or have I heard your voice before? Like are you a voice actor or something that I know I know you from but can't pinpoint it? 🤔😬🥴
I always thought the voice was an app. I was wrong.
Minor error correction: at 4:08 Lindsay says that Maria Fitzherbert was at George IV and Caroline of Brunswick's engagement dinner. It was actually Frances Villiers, Lady Jersey. George had left Maria for her earlier that year and Frances strongly encouraged him to marry Caroline for the money. He then appointed Frances as Caroline's Lady of the Bedchamber (a very high ranking position), sent her to meet Caroline from the boat and flirted with Frances throughout the dinner.
If I were Caroline I'd have done more than just making a few snide remarks!
William the Fourth's descendant was David Cameron our PM from 2010-2016
I am probably asking a question that you wouldn't even want to attempt to answer but here goes.... could you tell us what basically happened to all the illegtitmate kids from the princes? I'm sure you couldn't run down all of them, but I wonder if the princes educate their kids? did they help set them up in business or did they become members of the aristocracy? I know that King Charles II made some of his kids dukes ... although I know only 3 sons were king, but I just wandered if the princes were a part of these kids' lives, did they support them? wonder if their descendants today are learned, well off, or just scraping by, and maybe all of the above.... would be so sad to think that the kids were given little to no thought once the princes left their mother's bed....
Please do a video on princess charlotte of wales!
The music that's used in the background slaps
you should do a video about the medici dynasty
Carlton House is my #1 time travel dream destination.
I remember the film, "The Madness of King George" which was about George III's mental illness. It's both sad and at times, comical. Mental illness is a sad disease.
This is the royal couple bridgerton surrounds!!
it's unfortunate how royals had money but a lot had miserable lives & couldn't marry who they want or do what they wanted, still true for many today
You obviously don’t understand that the royals NEVER had money. The money was ALWAYS the publics money.
It would have been nice if queen Charlotte was in charge like on Bridgerton.
Does Lindsay already have a video on George III himself? I’ve lost track, but if so I’d like to watch it.
I knew there was something else I learned from this video, and that is what "Regency" meant, like in the "Regency period". It means when a son (or daughter, I suppose) must fill in for their father who cannot fulfill his duty for one reason or another.
“Regency” as an era indicator name is pretty much used for the 1800s-1830s. It’s a name taken from George IV being the Prince Regent rather than referring to the exact years when he was. Mostly because the fashions and decor of that era were very different from the ones of the reigns of Georges I, II, and III, which can conveniently be called “Georgian”.
A “regent” is basically anybody who fills in for the monarch. If the monarch comes to the throne as a child, an adult regent (usually either the mother or uncle of the monarch) is appointed to rule until the monarch comes of age. Some kings also left temporary regents (often their wives) to rule while they were overseas.
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Thanks! 1800 - 1830s does make it clearer for me, at least as regarding the "Regency Period". I thought the one picture shown of the regency architecture looked very interesting. It reminded me of elements of the Arabesque.
@@kate_cooper --
Ah..."Georgian" for the three King Georges. It's becoming clearer!
@@phoenixobrien163 Yep, then “Victorian” for the reign of Queen Victoria, then “Edwardian” which is used for the reigns of both Edward VII and George V.
And then we stopped naming eras after monarchs.
@@kate_cooper --
I knew about Victorian, my favorite era, being after Queen Victoria, but before and after that things get hazy. Thanks!
Still find it so ironic that George III had 15 kids and yet Victoria was the only heir to come out of it all.
Victoria did have a few younger first cousins
@Pedantic Radiator like her husband and his brother 🤢
@@elliedonels6606 Victoria and Albert actually had a HORRIFIC cousin who shared literally none of their values: Belgium's King Leopold II. The man was a monster with his "Congo Free State" colony and literally killed like half the people under slave-like conditions. Victoria must have been mortified to have someone like THAT as a relative. Yuck! 😖
Pls upload king george 3 daughters
Next: King George lll's sons. Part 2.
please do a video on the decescandts of king george the 3rd
Will you do a video about queen Charlotte the queen consort of George III?
I would like to know more about the horses,were used at the time 💯🐴please do a deep dive into it ❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️
That is an interesting idea!
I just watch the BBC 1979 Prince Regent. I highly recommended this series if you want to learn about the life of George IV.
George Augusts Frederick became regent at age 49, during George III’s second incapacitation by mental illness. Regency was discussed by parliament during George III’s first mental breakdown in 1788, but the king recovered before Parliament acted. The first regency crisis is brilliantly depicted in the film “The Madness of King George.” Both regency crisis are depicted in the eight episode 1979 BBC special “The Prince Regent” which is available on RUclips. Other accurate facts can be found on Wikipedia. Why would you make a video about a subject you don’t know much about?
18:32 well King Charles III just broke the record
please do the daughters of king george the 3rd
Make a video of queen isabell of Spain pls
My favs of the Georgian era!!!
What if Queen Victoria was not born? No Queen Elizabeth 11 !! Of many know her, it makes you think of what branches would they find ?🙌
Pls do more chinese history like empress emperor like those plizz🥰🥰🥰
When did the subscriber count shoot up? I remember it before 100K.