Adelaide of saxe-meiningen biography of alberta

Queen of England. Name variations: Adelaide Louisa Theresa. Born in Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany, on August 13, 1792; died on December 2, 1849, in Stanmore, London, England; buried at St.

George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England; daughter of George I, duke of Saxe-Coburg-Meiningen, and Louise of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1763–1837); married William, duke of Clarence, on July 18, 1818; became queen of England in 1830 on his accession as William IV until his death in 1837; children: Charlotte Guelph (1819–1819, died day of birth); Elizabeth Guelph (1820–1821, died age three months), and four other unnamed babies who died in childbirth, including twins.

With worries of English succession in the air, the 53-year-old William, duke of Clarence (later William IV), married the 26-year-old Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, considered plain and religious by contemporaries, specifically to bear children—legitimate children.

He had already fathered ten