Hannah Lightfoot

Hannah Lightfoot ( born October 12, 1730 in London, † December 1759 or 1768) was an English Quaker and supposedly legitimate wife of the Prince and later King George III.

Life

Hannah Lightfoot came from a recognized Quakerfamilie, her parents were the shoemaker Matthew Lightfoot and his wife Mary Wheeler. End of the 1740s she met the Prince of Wales know and bore him two sons and a daughter.

Over one hundred years later, rumors, George had married the Quaker Hannah Lightfoot already on 17 April 1759. In this case, George would have been a bigamist and any children of the marriage to Princess Sophie Charlotte of Mecklenburg -Strelitz had been declared illegitimate. But it turned out that Hannah Lightfoot not with Georg could have been married. She was already since 1753 the wife of Isaac Ford Axel and died in December 1759, which would not have any children from a closed in April 1759 marriage can come. The alleged marriage in 1866 was mentioned in a court case against the daughter of imposter Olive Wilmot, who had been posing as "Princess Olive". A marriage certificate submitted was exposed as a forgery; this is now in the royal archives of Windsor Castle.