Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany
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Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, was the second son of George III, King of the United Kingdom and Hanover, and his consort Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. A soldier by profession, from 1764 to 1803 he was Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück in the Holy Roman Empire.
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The Duke of York
The Grand Attack on Valenciennes by Philip James de Loutherbourg, 1794. The Siege of Valenciennes was an early Allied success but the campaign soon turned against them.
"The modern Circe or a sequel to the petticoat", caricature of Frederick's lover, Mary Anne Clarke by Isaac Cruikshank, 15 March 1809. The prince resigned as head of the British army ten days after the caricature's publication.
The Marriage of the Duke of York by Henry Singleton, 1791
Personal standard
Statue of Frederick Duke of York in Waterloo Place, Westminster, London
The Duke of York Column seen from The Mall, LondonAwards 7
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About this person
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, was the second son of George III, King of the United Kingdom and Hanover, and his consort Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. A soldier by profession, from 1764 to 1803 he was Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück in the Holy Roman Empire. From the death of his father in 1820 until his own death in 1827, he was the heir presumptive to his elder brother, George IV, in both the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Hanover.
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