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    Dorothea Jordan (née Bland; 22 November 1761 – 5 July 1816) was an Anglo-Irish actress, as well as a courtesan. She was the long-time mistress of Prince...
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    and St Andrews. Between 1791 and 1811, he cohabited with the actress Dorothea Jordan, with whom he had ten children. In 1818, he married Princess Adelaide...
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  • Thumbnail for Amelia Cary, Viscountess Falkland
    Kingdom (then Duke of Clarence and St Andrews) by his long-time mistress Dorothea Jordan. Amelia had four sisters and five brothers, all surnamed FitzClarence...
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    son of William IV of the United Kingdom and his long-time mistress Dorothea Jordan. Like his siblings, he had little contact with his mother after his...
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  • Look up Dorothea in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dorothea, also spelt Dorothee (German), Dorothée (French), and Dorotea, is a female given name from...
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    daughter of King William IV of the United Kingdom by his mistress Dorothea Jordan. In later life she became a writer. Mary FitzClarence was born in Bushy...
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    actress Dorothea Jordan née Bland (1761–1816). Frances was born and raised in England, where her mother – adopting the stage name 'Mrs Jordan' – had continued...
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    of the United Kingdom, had at least ten children with his mistress Dorothea Jordan, all of whom took the surname FitzClarence. All of them were also granted...
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    daughter of William IV of the United Kingdom and his longtime mistress Dorothea Jordan. She was married to Philip Sidney, 1st Baron De L'Isle and Dudley,...
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    Kingdom (then Duke of Clarence and St Andrews) by his long-time mistress Dorothea Jordan, she grew up at their Bushy House residence in Teddington. Augusta...
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    illegitimate daughter of King William IV of the United Kingdom and Dorothea Jordan. She married William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll, and became Countess...
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  • Florida Dorothea Jordan (1761–1816), Irish actress and courtesan Sir Joseph Jordan (Royal Navy officer) (c.1603–1685), English admiral Lorna Jordan (1954–2021)...
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    aristocrat and a great-grandson of King William IV by his mistress Dorothea Jordan. Aubrey FitzClarence was born in Kensington, London, a son of William...
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    illegitimate son of Prince William, the future William IV, and his mistress Dorothea Jordan. FitzClarence joined the navy in 1813. In the following year he joined...
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    British peer, and the great-grandson of King William IV by his mistress Dorothea Jordan. Born Geoffrey George Gordon FitzClarence, he was the son of William...
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    in 1830) and his mistress, the comic actress Dorothea Jordan (née Bland). The King's eldest son by Jordan, George FitzClarence, was created Earl of Munster...
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    his maternal grandfather, he was also a descendant of William IV and Dorothea Jordan. The Duke was the only son of the 11th Earl of Southesk (1893–1992)...
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    and the third illegitimate son of King William IV by his mistress Dorothea Jordan. FitzClarence was commissioned as an officer in the British Army in...
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    William Beechey, Dorothea Jordan as Rosalind in Shakespeare's ‘As You Like It’...
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    son of William IV of the United Kingdom and his long-time mistress Dorothea Jordan, he was well-educated, although his written English was poor (as was...
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  • until 1556) Bushy House Teddington William IV; the FitzClarences, Dorothea Jordan, Adelaide of Saxe-Meinigen (1797–1849; still owned) Cambridge House...
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    Saxe-Gotha (for whom Lord Carnarvon stood proxy), and his great-aunt Sophia Dorothea, Queen in Prussia (for whom Lady Charlotte Edwin stood proxy). George grew...
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    was an illegitimate son of King William IV by his long-time mistress Dorothea Jordan. Therefore, the second Earl of Munster was the great-grandson of King...
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    actor Francis Bland and the actress Grace Phillips and the brother of Dorothea Jordan. Abandoning planned studies at Oxford University he appeared as an...
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    Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen 1792–1849 William IV 1765–1837 r.1830–1837 Dorothea Jordan 1761–1816 Charlotte Princess Royal 1766–1828 Frederick I King of Württemberg...
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    Dorothea Lange (born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best...
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    Though he had been able to father ten illegitimate children with Dorothea Jordan, an earlier mistress, none of his children by his wife survived childhood...
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    the throne. William already had ten children by the popular actress Dorothea Jordan, but, being illegitimate, they were barred from the succession. Considerable...
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    Washington Irving John Jackson Edward Jenner Sarah, Countess of Jersey Dorothea Jordan Edmund Kean Charles Kemble John Philip Kemble Stephen Kemble Michael...
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    in sharing descent from both King William IV (through his mistress, Dorothea Jordan), and William IV's niece, Queen Victoria, who succeeded him because...
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