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Sophia Sidney, Baroness De L'Isle and Dudley

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302: 39: 317:, where she died three months later. Sophia died in childbirth just after drawing a sketch of her ailing father. She was his favourite child and her death caused him intense grief, exacerbated by the fact that he was completely estranged from her brother the Earl of Munster. She was remembered as a woman of great wit, charm and gaiety. There is a memorial to her at 219:. Sophia would come to have nine siblings, five brothers and four sisters all surnamed FitzClarence. While circumstances prevented the couple from ever marrying, for twenty years William and Dorothea enjoyed domestic stability and were devoted to their children. In 1797, they moved from Clarence Lodge to 751: 608: 286: 236: 192: 137: 105: 725: 276: 1516: 634: 783: 484: 290: 259: 1450: 1491: 1496: 542: 1428: 1368: 1347: 689: 1383: 568: 448: 212: 184: 422: 510: 318: 1506: 1511: 93: 1526: 1501: 258:
Adelaide Augusta Wilhelmina Sidney, married her first cousin, Frederick Charles George FitzClarence-Hunloke, son of
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residence until 1807. The couple separated in 1811 as William sought to produce legitimate issue.
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Sophia Philippa Sidney, married Alexander, Graf von Kielmannsegg, a great-grandson of
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In May 1831 Sophia, like her sisters, was raised to the status of a daughter of a
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Sophia and her husband had four surviving children, three daughters and a son:
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Ernestine Wellington Sidney, married Philip Perceval; mother of Major Sir
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Sophia FitzClarence was born on 25 August 1796 on Somerset Street in
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of Penshurst in the County of Kent. Sidney was a relation of the
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21. Princess Christiane Emilie of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
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Ancestors of Sophia Sidney, Baroness De L'Isle and Dudley
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The Sidneys of Penshurst and the Monarchy, 1500-1700
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Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen
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Index

The Right Honourable

Andrew Morton
London
England
Kensington Palace
Noble family
FitzClarence
Philip Sidney, 1st Baron De L'Isle and Dudley
Philip Sidney, 2nd Baron De L'Isle and Dudley
William IV
Dorothea Jordan
William IV of the United Kingdom
Dorothea Jordan
Philip Sidney, 1st Baron De L'Isle and Dudley
Kensington Palace
London
Prince William, Duke of Clarence and St Andrews
Dorothea Jordan
Bushy House
Teddington
Philip Sidney
Baron De L'Isle and Dudley
Romantic poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley
George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster
Philip Hunloke
Henry Philip Hunloke
Johann Ludwig, Reichsgraf von Wallmoden-Gimborn
George II of Great Britain

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