Vintage “Duke of Gloucester" Prince William Hand Written Letter Dated 1828 For Sale

Up for sale the "Duke of Gloucester" Prince William Hand Written Letter Dated 1828 .

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Prince William Frederick, Duke of

Gloucester and 1776 – 30 November 1834) was a great-grandson of King George II of Great

Britain and the nephew and son-in-law of King George III. He was the grandson of both Frederick, Prince of Wales (George

II's eldest son), and Edward Walpole. Prince William married Princess Mary, the fourth daughter of George II Prince William

Frederick was born on 15 January 1776 at Palazzo Teodoli in via del Corso, Rome. His father was Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, the

third son of the Prince of Wales. His

mother, Maria,

was the illegitimate daughter of Edward Walpole and granddaughter of Robert Walpole. As a great-grandson of George II he held the

title of Prince of Great Britain with

the style His Highness,

not His Royal Highness, at birth. The young prince was baptized at

Teodoli Palace, on 12 February 1776 by a Rev Salter. His godparents were his

father's cousin and cousin-in-law, the Duke and Duchess of

Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg; and the Duke of Gloucester's second

cousin, the Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. During his stay in

Stockholm in 1802–1803, William's interest and rumoured affair with Aurora Wilhelmina Koskull attracted

a lot of attention, and he reportedly had plans to marry her. Queen

Charlotte recalled that William said of Koskull: "If she

was your daughter, I would marry her!"  William was admitted to the University of Cambridge (Trinity College) in 1787,

and granted his MA in

1790. He set up his London home at 31 Upper Grosvenor Street, Mayfair. On 25 August 1805, Prince William's father

died, and he inherited the titles Duke of Gloucester and

Edinburgh and Earl of Connaught. From 1811 until his death William was Chancellor

of the University of Cambridge. He was offered the throne of Sweden in 1812 by some members of the Swedish

nobility, but the British government would not allow it; the

French marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte was eventually selected to become

King Charles XIV John.