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Old 16th Apr 2021, 00:12
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Archimedes
 
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Originally Posted by euromanxdude
Quick correction- George 1V had a daughter with his wife Caroline. Princess Charlotte was at the time the most popular member of the royal family, and everyone looked forward to the day she would inherit the throne. She married and died shortly after giving birth to a stillborn son. The country went into deep mourning. Her widowed husband later went on to be king of the Belgians and uncle to Charlotte’s cousin Victoria
You're quite correct, of course - I meant that when he became King in 1820 he had no surviving children, but in a bid to make the post a little shorter than it turned out failed to make that qualifier clear.
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