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On this day in royal history . 29th January 1820 . 👑 King George III died . . ◼ In the last years of his life the king suffered from dementia & became completely blind & increasingly deaf. . ◼ He was incapable of knowing or understanding either that he was declared King of Hanover in 1814, or that his wife (Queen Charlotte) died in 1818. . ◼ Over Christmas 1819, he spoke nonsense for 58 hours, & for the last few weeks of his life was unable to walk. . ◼ He died at Windsor Castle at 8:38 pm on 29 January 1820, six days after the death of his fourth son, the Duke of Kent. His favourite son, Frederick, Duke of York, was with him. . ◼ He was buried on 16 February in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. . ◼ George was succeeded by two of his sons George IV & William IV, who both died without surviving legitimate children, leaving the throne to the only legitimate child of the Duke of Kent, Victoria, the last monarch of the House of Hanover. . ◼ He lived for 81 years & 239 days & reigned for 59 years & 96 days: both his life & his reign were longer than those of any of his predecessors. Only Victoria & Elizabeth II have since lived & reigned longer. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #OnThisDay #otd #TheYear1820 #GeorgeIII #KingGeorgeIII #HouseofHanover #KingofHanover #Hanoverian #Royalty #History #RoyaltyinArt #BritishMonarchy #D29Jan #RoyalFamily  #royal #Royalty #BuckinghamPalace #windsorcastle #Georgians #Georgian #britishroyalfamily #royals #Britain #britishroyalty #britishroyals #crown #otd  #monarchy #RoyalHistory Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2021 (at Windsor Castle) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKpNu2oDdr7/?igshid=rll7pzywvk40

On This Day In History . 10 December 1820 . Princess Elizabeth of Clarence was born . . Princess Elizabeth of Clarence was the second daughter & third child of Prince William, Duke of Clarence and St Andrews (later King William IV) & his wife (later Queen), Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen. . ◼ She was a granddaughter of King George III of the United Kingdom & a first cousin of Queen Victoria. . ◼ After having had one child who died on the day of her birth, Princess Charlotte (27 March 1819) & suffering a stillbirth, the third pregnancy of the Duchess of Clarence also did not go as expected. The Duchess delivered a girl, almost six weeks premature, on 10 December 1820 at St James’s Palace. She was christened on the day of her birth at the Palace by William Howley, then Bishop of London. . ◼ The Duke & Duchess of Clarence had wanted to name her Georgina, but King George IV asked that she be named Elizabeth instead. The couple agreed & christened her “Elizabeth Georgiana Adelaide” (or Elizabeth-Georgiana-Adelaide). . ◼ She lived the remainder of her days at St James’s Palace. After “being suddenly seized with the fatal disease, an intro-susception of the bowels” she died shortly thereafter on 4 March 1821, aged 12 weeks. After her death, her mother suffered three more stillbirths. . ◼ Elizabeth was buried at Windsor Castle, in St George’s Chapel, on 10 March 1821. During her short life, she was ahead of her cousin, the future Queen Victoria, in the line of succession. . 👑 Had the Princess lived she may have become Queen Elizabeth II. . 📷 The picture is a recumbent effigy of Princess Elizabeth of Clarence by William Scoular (died 1854) in the Grand Corridor of Windsor Castle. . . #onthisdayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #Theyear1820 #d10dec #PrincessElizabeth #HouseofHanover #stjamespalace #KingWilliamIV #QueenAdelaide #History #Britishmonarchy #otd #RoyalHistory #HistoryFacts #RoyalFamily #Theking #williamiv #thisday #Britishroyals #Britishroyalfamily #royalfamilyuk #Britishroyalty #Royalart #Artwork #portraitpainting #windsorcastle #buckinghampalace #kensingtonpalace #royals #royalty (at St James’s Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIoQRG4j8uT/?igshid=5mlgqj5gb8us

On this day in history . 29th January 1820 . 👑 King George III died . . ◼ In the last years of his life the king suffered from dementia & became completely blind & increasingly deaf. . ◼ He was incapable of knowing or understanding either that he was declared King of Hanover in 1814, or that his wife (Queen Charlotte) died in 1818. . ◼ Over Christmas 1819, he spoke nonsense for 58 hours, & for the last few weeks of his life was unable to walk. . ◼ He died at Windsor Castle at 8:38 pm on 29 January 1820, six days after the death of his fourth son, the Duke of Kent. His favourite son, Frederick, Duke of York, was with him. . . ◼ He was buried on 16 February in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. . ◼ George was succeeded by two of his sons George IV & William IV, who both died without surviving legitimate children, leaving the throne to the only legitimate child of the Duke of Kent, Victoria, the last monarch of the House of Hanover. . ◼ He lived for 81 years & 239 days & reigned for 59 years & 96 days: both his life & his reign were longer than those of any of his predecessors. Only Victoria & Elizabeth II have since lived & reigned longer. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1820 #GeorgeIII #KingGeorgeIII #HouseofHanover #KingofHanover #Hanoverian #Royalty #History #RoyaltyinArt #BritishMonarchy #D29Jan #RoyalFamily  #royal #Royalty #BuckinghamPalace #windsorcastle #Kensingtonpalace  #royalwedding #britishroyalfamily #royals #Britain #hermajesty #britishroyalty #britishroyals #crown  #Windsor #monarchy  (at Windsor, Berkshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtPDyF2lv2q/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=suy1uu4bsh1g