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Our first talk of 2025, near to home in Weymouth

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18th century treasures at Waddesdon

In the footsteps of Lizzie B. Belton aka Rosings Park in the 1995 P&P with Colin and Jennifer.

When you discover that an ancestor was at a boarding school in Vauxhall in the early 1800s, you instantly get a picture of 'nowadays' Vauxhall in your head; an urban landscape with flyovers, skyscrapers and of course railways. And then you take a look at a contemporaneous map...

Our full video of the 2024 Grand Regency Costumed Promenade is now on our YT channel.

William's marriage produced no children who survived. Edward has one child - Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent. William went on to become William IV. The Georgian era ended when he died, on 20 June 1837. His niece, Edward's daughter, followed him as Queen Victoria.

It was a race. With their older brother, the Prince Regent, effectively out of it, William and Edward had a chance of fathering a monarch. They had a double wedding on 11 July 1818. But Edward had the edge on his brother. He’d married his Princess six weeks before, in Germany.

As a son of George III, he had to marry a Protestant princess. There weren’t many around and he settled on Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen. He was 52. She was 25. Beside him at the wedding was his younger brother, Edward Duke of Kent. He, too, was marrying to produce an heir.

On 11 July 1818 William, Duke of Clarence, married a German princess. He was 52 years old. She was 25. William, the second son of George III, was in a rush to father a child. That child would jump up to the top of the British royal line of succession. 🧵

So William, along with his brother Edward, married in 1818. It was an opportunity to father a future monarch. William was confident of becoming a father - again. He already had ten by his mistress, Dorothea Jordan. But they were illegitimate and couldn’t inherit.

There was no shortage of potential successors to George III. Of his 15 children, 12 were still alive. But, shockingly, there was no obvious heir in the next generation. The king’s only legitimate grandchild, Princess Charlotte, died in childbirth in November 1817.

We loved exploring @fairfax_house yesterday. In a city awash with history, this is our favourite find.

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