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CORNWALL. 373 2 Sep. 1705, Wilhelmina Cliarlotte Caroline, da. of John Frederick, Margrave op Bhandenburg-Anspach, by his 2nd wife, Eleanor, da. of John George, Duke of Saxe- EysenacH. They were, in Feb. 1717/8, expelled from court by the King (with whom tlio Prince, his sou, wsh on the worst possible terms), notice being given (in the Gazette) that none flatting them would be received by him. The Princess of Wales was b. 1 March 1683, and was living 11 June 1727, when her husband ascended the throne as George II, whereby all his honours merged in the Crown. XX. 1727, JT.E.JI. FitEDEiticK Levis, the Prince of Groat Britain, to Electoral Prince of Bruuswiok-Luneburg,^) Duke OS Edknburgh,( 1: >) 1751. &c, became, by the accession of his father to the throne as George II, on 11 June 1727, DUKE OF CORNWALL, as also DUKE OF liOTHSAY, &c. [S.] He was s. and h. ap. of King George II, by Wil- helmina Charlotte Caroline of Bradenburg-Anspach, was b. 20 Jan. 1707, at Hanover ; was el. K.G. 3 July, and inv. 24 Dec. 1717 at Hanover, being installed (by proxy) 30 April 1718. On 26 July 1726 he was or. 'by his grandfather) BAHON OF SNAUDON [Siwwdon], co. Carnarvon, VISCOUNT OF LAUNCESTON, co. Cornwall, EARL OF ELTHAM, co. Kent, MARQUESS OF THE ISLE OF ELY, and DUKE OF EDENBURQH.( b ) Within a year he became, 11 June 1727, Duke of Cornwall, &c, as ahovestated, and, some 18 months afterwards, was cr., 8 Jan. 1728/9, Prince of Wales and EABL OF CHESTER, with rem. to his heirs, Kings of Great Britain. He m. 27 April 1736, at the Chapel Royal, St. James' Palace, Augusta, yst. da. of Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotiia, by Magdalen Augusta, da. of Charles William, Prince of Anhalt Zehbst. They were (as had happened in the preceding reign), on 10 Sep. 1737, expelled by an order signed by the King (with whom the Prince, his son, was on the worst possible terms) from St. James' Palace, all persons who visited them being prohibited from attending court.( c ) The Prince of Wales d. 20 March 1750/1, T.p.,( d ) at Leicester House,(°) St. Martin's-in-the-fields, and was bur. privately the 13th in Westm. Abbey. The Principality of Wales, the Dukedom of Cormoall, and the Earldom of Chester, as also the Dukedom of Rothsayjif) &c. [S.], lapsed to the Crown, while the Dukedom of Edeuburgh, &c, devolved on the late Prince's s. and h., afterwards King George III. See " Edenburgh," Dukedom of, cr. 1726. His widow, who was b. 30 Nov. 1719, d. 8 Feb. 1772, at Carlton House, Pall Mall (being then the mother of the reigning Sovereign), and was bur. the 15th at Westm, Abbey. (») Seep. 372, note "b." ( b ) So spelt. (°) " The repugnance which George II conceived for his son was exceeded only by the dislike with which Ac himself had been previously regarded by his own father." See " Jesse's " Court of Hanover," Vol. iii. ( d ) " He [Frederick] is reported to have selected Edward, the Blaok Prince, as his model ; but, as Horace Walpole sarcastically observes, he resembled him in no other point than in dying before his father." See Jesse, ut supra. ( 6 ) This house is happily called by Pennant " the pouting place of Princes," for it was in it likewise that George II, when, in 1718, he was expelled from court by his father, made his London residence. ( f ) " Upon the death of this Prineo it was considered that the titles of Duke of Roth8ay, Earl of Carrick, &c, had reverted to the Crown, as the Dukedom of Corn- wall undoubtedly did. It was the opinion of the Judge Advocate [S.] that these dignities had been settled upon the plan of the Act of 11 Edw. Ill, by which the Duchy of Cornwall was governed, but no instance having occurred of a like nature iu Scotland, no certain opinion could be given ; a draft of an Act of Pari, was prepared in order to obviate the difficulty, but no further steps in the matter appear to have been taken." See "Courthope" (with MS. corrections), p. 13, note "t." An elaborate account of these proceedings is in " Wood's Douglas," Vol. ii, p. 437-439 ; but the period during which the heir apparent was of full age was only about 16 months, and the matter was concluded when on 25 Oct. 1760 he ascended the throne as George III.