Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia

Friederike Charlotte Ulrike Katharina of Prussia ( born May 7, 1767 in Potsdam, † August 6, 1820 in Weybridge, Surrey, England) was Princess of Hanover and Duchess of Brunswick and Lüneburg, and by marriage Princess of Great Britain and Ireland and Duchess of York and Albany.

She was the daughter of the Crown Prince and later King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia and his first wife ( 1st degree cousin on both sides ) Elisabeth, born Princess of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel, whose marriage was divorced in 1769.

Life

After her parents' divorce and her mother's exile to Szczecin Friederike of Prussia grew alternately under the care of her paternal grandmother, Louise Amalie of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel and stepmother Friederike of Hesse- Darmstadt, her father's second wife on.

She married on 29 September 1791 at the age of 24 years, in Charlottenburg Prince Frederick Augustus of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of York and Albany ( 1763-1827 ). A second wedding ceremony was held at Buckingham Palace on 23 November 1791. Friederike followed her husband to Weybridge in Surrey, where the couple lived in the Oatlands House, which burned in 1794 and was rebuilt in neo-Gothic style of historicism. Although the 1793 Commander of the British- Hanoverian army and 1795 field marshal and commander of the British army appointed Duke soon by his wife separated in order to pursue his mistress Mary Anne Clarke, they remained there for nearly thirty years a resident until her death and stepped out in this time as a generous benefactress.

Friederike, Duchess of York and Albany, died in 1820 at the age of 53 years in Weybridge and was buried there. From her marriage to the Duke of York and Albany no children were born.

Two years after her death allowed the establishment of a subscription known as York Column column in honor of the benefactor. The monument stands at the eastern end of the High Street Weybridge in Weybridge.

The over thirty years ago by Friederike of Prussia inhabited Oatlands domain was sold in 1824, changed hands several times and was eventually parceled. The Oatland House was rebuilt by the South Western Hotel Company to a hotel, which opened in 1856 as the South Western Hotel and is known as Oatlands Park Hotel today.