Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
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Duchess Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (3 March 1778-29 June 1841), Duchess of Cumberland and later Queen of Hanover, was the consort of Prince Ernest Augustus, 1st Duke of Cumberland (later King Ernst August I of Hanover), the fifth son and eighth child of King George III of the United Kingdom and Queen Charlotte.
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[edit] Early life
Her Highness Duchess Frederica Louise Caroline Sophie Alexandrine (Friederike Luise Caroline Sophie Alexandrine in German) was born in Hanover, the fifth daughter of Duke Charles II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1741-1816) and his first wife, Frederica (1752-1782), the daughter of George William, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt. Her father assumed the title of Grand Duke of Mecklenburg on 18 June 1815. Duchess Frederica was the niece of her future mother-in-law, Queen Charlotte (formerly Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz).
[edit] First marriage
Duchess Frederica married firstly His Royal Highness Prince (Frederick) Louis of Prussia (5 November 1773-23 December 1796), the younger son of King Frederick William II of Prussia, on 26 December 1793 at the Royal Palace, Berlin. This marriage was dissolved in 1796
[edit] Second marriage
She then married His Serene Highness Frederick William, Prince of Solms-Braunfels (22 October 1770-13 April 1814) on 10 December 1798 at Berlin.
[edit] Third marriage
Fourteen months after her second husband's death, she was married for a third time on 29 May 1815 at the parish church of Neustrelitz, Germany, and again on 29 August 1815 at Carlton House, London to His Royal Highness Field Marshal Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland.
[edit] Queen of Hanover
The Duchess of Cumberland became Queen of Hanover upon the ascension of her third husband to the Hanoverian throne on 20 June 1837. Queen Frederica of Hanover died in 1841 at Hanover and was buried in the Chapel at Schloss Herrenhausen.
[edit] Titles, Style, Honours & Arms
[edit] Titles
- 1778-1793: Her Highness Duchess Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- 1793-1796?8?: Her Royal Highness Princess Frederick Louis of Prussia
- 1798-1815: Her Highness The Princess of Solms-Braunfels
- 1815-1837: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cumberland and Teviotdale
- 1837-1841: Her Majesty Queen Frederica of Hanover
[edit] Issue
| Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| By HRH Prince Frederick Louis of Prussia (married December 29, 1793; dissolved 1796) | |||
| Prince Frederick of Prussia | October 30, 1794 | July 27, 1863 | Married Princess Louise of Anhalt-Bernburg |
| Prince Charles of Prussia | September 26, 1795 | April 6, 1798 | |
| Princess Frederica of Prussia | September 30, 1796 | January 1, 1850 | married Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau (October 1, 1794-May 22, 1871) |
| By HSH Frederick William, Prince of Solms-Braunfels (married December 10, 1798; he died April 13, 1814) | |||
| Princess Sophia of Solms-Braunfels | February 27, 1799 | October 20, 1799 | |
| Prince Frederick William of Solms-Braunfels | September 11, 1800 | September 14, 1800 | |
| Prince William of Solms-Braunfels | December 13, 1801 | September 12, 1868 | married Countess Maria Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau |
| Princess Augusta of Solms-Braunfels | July 25, 1804 | October 8, 1865 | married Albert, Prince of Schhartzburg-Roudolstadt |
| Unnamed Stillborn Daughter | 1805 | 1805 | |
| Prince Alexander of Solms-Braunfels | March 12, 1807 | February 20, 1867 | married Princess Louise of Landsberg-Velen |
| Prince Charles of Solms-Braunfels | July 27, 1812 | November 13, 1875 | married Princess Sophie of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg |
| By HRH Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (later HM King Ernest Augustus I of Hanover) (married May 29, 1815) | |||
| Princess Frederica of Cumberland | 27 January 1817 | January 27, 1817 | stillborn |
| Unnamed stillborn daughter | April 1818 | April 1818 | |
| George V of Hanover | 27 May 1819 | 12 June 1878 | married 1843, HH Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg; had issue |
