Guillaume IV of the United Kingdom
Guillaume IV of the United Kingdom (Guillaume Henri), born the August 21st 1765, dead the June 20th 1837, was king of the the United Kingdom and king of Hanover of the June 26th 1830 with 1837.
He was the third child, and third wire, of the fifteen children of Georges III (1738-1820), king de Grande-Bretagne and of Ireland (1760-1801) then king of the United Kingdom (1801-1820), but also prince-Voter of Hanover (1760-1815) then king de Hanovre (1815-1820), and of Charlotte de Mecklembourg-Strelitz (1744-1818). Guillaume, the younger brother and successor of Georges IV, was the last but one monarch of the Maison of Hanover. During its youth, it was useful in the Royal Navy, which did it a time to call “ the marine king ” (“ the Sailor King ”), also " Silly Billy" (in other words Billy the imbecile).
Duke of Clarence
Until its accession with the thrones, it was titrated, of 1789 with 1830, duke of Clarence and Saint-Andrews, and count de Munster. Guillaume, recently created duke of Clarence, ceased his active service in Royal Navy in 1790, after which one promoted it with rear-admiral. When the the United Kingdom declared the war on the France in 1793, Guillaume wanted to serve his country, but was not put at the head of a vessel, instead of what it spent time in the House of Lords by justifying the extravagant expenditure of his brother who was the Prince de Galles and which had made an application to the Parliament for the relief of its debts. While being even it spoke against slavery, by using its experiment in the Antilles.
King
The June 26th 1830, it succeeded, in the two kingdoms British and of Hanover, with his/her older brother George IV (1762-1830), king of 1820 to 1830, died without surviving descent, while their “intermediate” brother Frederic-Auguste (1763-1827), duke of York and Albany and count d' Ulster had died without posterity.
Its reign gave place, in dialog with the successive governments, with the implementation of various reforms: greater autonomy for the municipalities, limitation of the time of Work the children, abolition of slavery in the British Empire, reforms electoral system in 1832. Although less implied in the political matters than his father and his older brother, he did not hesitate in 1834 to name a Prime Minister against the wishes of the Parliament.
Guillaume IV had a long relation with Dorothy Bland (Mrs. Jordan) (1761-1816), from which two illegitimate children come bearing the name from Fitzclarence, and whose descent remains nowadays, that it is in agnatic descent or by the female descents.
After the death of Dorothy Bland, in 1816, the duke of Clarence agree to take a wife “according to his row”, in the person of Adélaïde of Saxony-Meiningen (1792-1849), marriage celebrated on July 13rd, 1818, and from which five children, including three dull and two in low age come.
After the disappearance of Guillaume IV, the crown of the United Kingdom échut to his/her niece Victoria (1819-1901), only daughter of the duke of Kent Edward Augustus (1767-1820), 4th wire and 5th child of the king Georges III. But the crown of Hanover, country in which the succession had always taken place in succession of exclusively male primogeniture, was separated from the British crown after 123 years of personal Union, and échut with the prince Ernest-Auguste (1771-1851), up to that point duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale and count d' Armagh, 8th child and 5th wire of the king George III.
Guillaume IV belonged to the Maison of Hanover, resulting from the Maison of Brunswick (Brunswick-Luneburg) itself resulting from the Maison from Este, downward of the dukes of Toscane. He was the last king of the United Kingdom of the line of Hanover.
Internal bonds
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Georges II of Great Britain, paternal grandfather
- Charles Ier de Mecklembourg-Strelitz, maternal grandfather
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