Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Totally Explained

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| place of death = Hanover | place of burial = Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover |}} Duchess Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (3 March 1778 – 29 June 1841), Duchess of Cumberland and later Queen of Hanover, was the consort of Ernest Augustus I of Hanover, the fifth son and eighth child of George III and Queen Charlotte.

Early life

Her Highness Duchess Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was born in Hanover, the fifth daughter of Charles II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and his first wife, Frederica (1752-1782), the daughter of George William, Prince 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).

First marriage

Duchess Frederica married firstly His Royal Highness Prince Louis Charles of Prussia (called Prince Ludwig, 5 November 1773-23 December 1796), the younger son of Frederick William II of Prussia, on 26 December 1793, at the Royal Palace, Berlin. This marriage was dissolved in 1796

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.

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 The Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland.

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.

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

3 March 1778 – 26 December 1793: Her Highness Duchess Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
26 December 1793 – 1796: Her Royal Highness Princess Frederick Louis of Prussia
1796 – 10 December 1798: Her Highness Duchess Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
10 December 1798 – 29 August 1815: Her Highness The Princess of Solms-Braunfels
29 August 1815 – 29 June 1841: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cumberland and Teviotdale
20 June 1837 – 29 June 1841: Her Majesty Queen Frederica of Hanover

Issue

Name	irth	eath	otes
*By HRH Prince Frederick Louis of Prussia* (married 29 December 1793; dissolved 1796)
Prince Frederick Wilhelm Ludwig of Prussia	30 October 1794	27 July 1863	married, 1817, Princess Louise of Anhalt-Bernburg
Prince Frederick Wilhelm Charles George of Prussia	26 September 1795	6 April 1798
Princess Frederica Wilhelmina Luise Amalieof Prussia	30 September 1796	1 January 1850	married, 1818, Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt
*By HSH Frederick William, Prince of Solms-Braunfels* (married 10 December 1798; he died 13 April 1814)
Princess Sophia of Solms-Braunfels	27 February 1799	20 October 1799
Prince Frederick William of Solms-Braunfels	11 September 1800	14 September 1800
Prince Frederick Wilhelm Heinrich Casimir Georg Karl Maximilian of Solms-Braunfels	13 December 1801	12 September 1868	married, 1831, Countess Maria Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau
Princess Augusta Luise Therese Matilda of Solms-Braunfels	25 July 1804	8 October 1865	married, 1827, Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Unnamed Stillborn Daughter	1805	1805
Prince Alexander Frederick of Solms-Braunfels	12 March 1807	20 February 1867	married, 1863, Princess Louise of Landsberg-Velen
Prince Frederick Wilhelm Ludwig Georg Karl Alfred Alexander of Solms-Braunfels	27 July 1812	13 November 1875	married, 1845, Princess Sophie of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
*By HRH Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland* (later HM King Ernest Augustus I of Hanover) (married 29 May 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, Marie of Saxe-Altenburg; had issue

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