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H.M.
Queen Adelaide
Consort of William IV

1792-1849

  
 

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  full name:   Adelheid Luise Therese Caroline Amalie
  birth: 1792.08.13 at Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany
  father:   George I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
  mother:   Louise of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
  marriage: 1818.07.11 King William IV
at Kew Palace, Richmond, Surrey
  children: 1818 child, stillborn
    1819 Princess Charlotte Augusta Louisa of Clarence (d. 1819)
    1819 child, stillborn
    1820 Princess Elizabeth Georgiana Adelaide of Clarence (d. 1821)
    1822 child, stillborn
    1824 twins, stillborn
  death: 1849.12.02 at Stanmore, London
(buried: St. George's Chapel, Windsor)
       
       
  Titles, Orders and Awards
     
  Titles:
  1792 H.S.H. Adelheid Luise Therese Caroline Amalie, Princess of Saxe-Meiningen
   
  1830.06.26 H.M. Queen Adelaide
     
  British Empire/Commonwealth Orders and Awards:
   
     
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   Other Military Connections
1830.07 gave her title to 9th (or Queen's Royal) Lancers on the occasion of her husband's accession to the throne
1831.01.14 gave her title to 50th (the Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot
1835.11.07 gave her title to 1st, or Queen's Own Regiment of Oxfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry
 
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