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FREDERICK LOUIS (1707-1751)

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FREDERICK See also:LOUIS (1707-1751) , See also:prince of See also:Wales, eldest son of See also:George II., was See also:born at See also:Hanover on the loth of See also:January 1707. After his grandfather, George I., became See also:king of See also:Great See also:Britain and See also:Ireland in 1714, Frederick was known as See also:duke of See also:Gloucester 1 and made a See also:knight of the Garter, having previously been betrothed to See also:Wilhelmina See also:Sophia Dorothea (1709-1758), daughter of Frederick See also:William I., king of See also:Prussia, and See also:sister of Frederick the Great. Although he was anxious to marry this See also:lady, the match was rendered impossible by the dislike of George H. and Frederick William for each other. Soon after his See also:father became king in 1727 Frederick took up his See also:residence in See also:England and in 1729 was created prince of Wales; but the relations between George II. and his son were very unfriendly, and there existed between. them the See also:jealousy which See also:Stubbs calls the " incurable bane of See also:royalty." The faults were not all on one See also:side. The prince's See also:character was not attractive, and the king refused to make him an adequate See also:allowance. In 1735 Frederick wrote, or inspired the See also:writing of, the Histoire du prince Titi, a See also:book containing offensive caricatures of both king and See also:queen; and losing no opportunity of irritating his father, " he made," says See also:Lecky, " his See also:court the See also:special centre of opposition to the See also:government, and he exerted all his See also:influence for the ruin of See also:Walpole." After a See also:marriage between the prince and Lady See also:Diana See also:Spencer, afterwards the wife of See also:John, 4th duke of See also:Bedford, had been frustrated by Walpole, Frederick was married in See also:April 1736 to 1 Frederick was never actually created duke of Gloucester, and when he was raised to the See also:peerage in 1736 it was as duke of See also:Edinburgh only. See G. E. C(okayne), See also:Complete Peerage, sub " Gloucester." near See also:Berlin, and was buried at the adjacent See also:church of Nikolskoe. His third daughter, Princess See also:Louise Margareta, was married, in See also:March 1879, to the duke of See also:Connaught.

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