Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain
| Princess Elizabeth | |||||
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 Portrait by Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1754 | |||||
| Born | 10 January 1741 Norfolk House, Westminster | ||||
| Died | 4 September 1759 (aged 18) Kew Palace, Surrey | ||||
| Burial | 14 September 1759 | ||||
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| House | Hanover | ||||
| Father | Frederick, Prince of Wales | ||||
| Mother | Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha | ||||
Princess Elizabeth Caroline of Great Britain (10 January 1741 – 4 September 1759) was one of the children of
King George III
.
Life
Princess Elizabeth was born at
Lady Jane Hamilton stood proxy).[citation needed
]
Little is known of her short life[2] other than a fragment preserved in the Letters of Walpole.
We have lost another Princess, Lady Elizabeth. She died of an
Horatio Mann, 13 September 1759[3]
She died on 4 September 1759 at Kew Palace, London and was buried at Westminster Abbey.
Ancestors
| Ancestors of Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain Princess Magdalena Sibylle of Saxe-Weissenfels | |||||||||||||
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| 3. Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha | |||||||||||||
| 14. Charles, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst | |||||||||||||
| 7. Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst | |||||||||||||
| 15. Princess Sophia of Saxe-Weissenfels | |||||||||||||
See also
- List of British princesses
References
- ^ The Third Register Book of the Parish of St James in the Liberty of Westminster For Births & Baptisms. 1723-1741. 24 January 1740.
- ^ Wilkins, William Henry (1904). A Queen of Tears: Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway and Princess of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Longmans, Green and Co. pp. 32–33.
- Walpole, Horace; Charles Duke Yonge (1890). Letters of Horace Walpole. London: T. Fisher Unwin. pp. 173–177.
- ^ Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 4.
