Amelia of the United Kingdom
1783 – 1810 · Generation XXXII · House of Hanover
Amelia of the United Kingdom (1783–1810). The fifteenth and youngest child of George III and Queen Charlotte, she was born at the Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park and was often said to be her father’s favourite, his “Emily.” She was five when his first bout of madness struck, and the over-sheltered household that followed gave her and her sisters little chance to meet suitors. Signs of tuberculosis appeared when she was about fifteen. On a seaside cure at Weymouth in 1801 she fell in love with the equerry Charles FitzRoy, twenty-one years her senior; the Royal Marriages Act barred a match, yet she considered herself his wife. Erysipelas confined her to bed in October 1810, and she died on 2 November, nursed by her sister Mary. She left the King a mourning ring of her hair and FitzRoy everything else; her death is credited with hastening her father’s final descent into insanity.
Place in the family
- Amelia of the United Kingdom was an aunt of Queen Victoria.
One of 35 people of House of Hanover (from 1700) in this archive. Called from Germany by the Act of Settlement; the Georges, then Victoria.
Line of descent: Owen Tudor → Edmund Tudor → King Henry VII → Margaret Tudor → King James V of Scotland → Mary Queen of Scots → King James I → Elizabeth Stuart → Sophia of Hanover → King George I → King George II → Frederick Prince of Wales → King George III → Amelia of the United Kingdom.
Parents
- King George III (1738 – 1820)
- Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744 – 1818)
Siblings
- King George IV (1762 – 1830)
- Frederick Duke of York (1763 – 1827)
- King William IV (1765 – 1837)
- Charlotte, Princess Royal (1766 – 1828)
- Edward Duke of Kent (1767 – 1820)
- Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (1768 – 1840)
- Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (1770 – 1840)
- Ernest Augustus King of Hanover (1771 – 1851)
- Augustus Frederick Duke of Sussex (1773 – 1843)
- Adolphus Duke of Cambridge (1774 – 1850)
- Mary Duchess of Gloucester (1776 – 1857)
- Sophia of the United Kingdom (1777 – 1848)
- Octavius of the United Kingdom (1779 – 1783)
- Alfred of the United Kingdom (1780 – 1782)