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          Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen

          17 May 1768 - 7 August 1821

          Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen was born on 13 August 1792 at Meiningen, in Thuringia, she was the daughter of George I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen and his wife Luise Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, daughter of Prince Christian of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.

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          5. She was christened with the names Adelaide Amelia Louise Theresa Caroline.

          Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen

          Her marriage to William Duke of Clarence, third son of George III and 27 years her senior, was arranged as a result of the death in childbirth of the Prince Regent's only daughter, Princess Charlotte of Wales in 1817, which left no heir to the throne in the third generation.

          By the end of 1811, King George III was mad and, although still King in name, his heir-apparent and eldest son George was Prince Regent. In an attempt to secure the succession to the throne, William was informed that Parliament would guarantee his large gambling debts should he marry and produce an heir, Willi