Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen

Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (13 August 1792 – 2 December 1849) was the wife of King William IV of the United Kingdom. She was the daughter of George I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Luise Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.

Life
Adelaide was born on 13 August 1792 at Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany. She was the first child of George I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen and Luise Eleonore. At her baptism, she had twenty-one godparents, including:
 her mother
 Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, the Holy Roman Empress
 Maria Carolina of Austria, the Queen of Naples and Sicily
 Maria Theresa of Austria, the Crown Princess of Saxony
 Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen, the Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
 Princess Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg
 Landgravine Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1757–1830), Duchess of Saxe-Weimar
 Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
 Adolph, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-BarchfeldSandars, p.17

On 11 July 1818, Adelaide married Prince William, Duke of Clarence. It was a double wedding with William's younger brother, Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. When they married, William was second in line to become king. He became first in line when his brother, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, died in 1827. William and Adelaide became King and Queen of the United Kingdom when William's older brother, king George IV died in 1830.

William and Adelaide were King and Queen until William died in 1837. Adelaide died on 2 December 1849, aged 57.

Things named after Adelaide

The following are some of the things named after Adelaide:

Settlements
Adelaide, Eastern Cape
Adelaide, the capital city of South AustraliaRodney Cockburn, South Australia What's in a Name? Adelaide: Axiom Publishing. 3rd Edition. Reprinted 2002 Pg 3.
Queen Adelaide, Cambridgeshire
Adelheidsdorf, a municipality in Lower Saxony, Germany

Other things
Adelaide Hospital in Dublin
Adelaide River, in the Northern Territory of Australia
Fort Adelaide, in Port Louis, Mauritius
Queen Adelaide Archipelago in Chile
Adelaide Island, in Antarctica
525 Adelaide, an asteroid

Children
NameBirthDeathNotes Princess Charlotte of Clarence  27 March 1819  Died a few hours after being baptised, in Hanover.Weir, pp. 303–304. Stillborn child  5 September 1819  Born dead at CalaisZiegler, p. 126 or Dunkirk. Princess Elizabeth of Clarence  10 December 1820  4 March 1821  Born and died at St James's Palace. Stillborn twin boys  8 April 1822  Born dead at Bushy Park.Ziegler, pp. 126–127.

Ancestry

References

Sources
 Sandars, Mary F. (Frances): The life and times of Queen Adelaide. London, 1915. .

 Ziegler, Philip (1971). King William IV. London: Collins. .

 Other websites 

 Biography 

 Queen Adelaide Society (City of Adelaide, South Australia)

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