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Prince Octavius of Great Britain

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346: 309:, a friend of the King, recalled an encounter with Octavius at the Queen's Lodge, Windsor. In a letter, she described how sweetly George carried Octavius and brought the prince to her in his arms. Octavius then held out his hand to play with Mrs. Delany, and he kissed her cheek at the instigation of his father. Despite the social norm that discouraged public shows of familial affection, she praised the novel way in which the King and Queen raised their children. Another witness wrote that George and Charlotte "have their children always playing about them the whole time"; during most evenings the children were brought to their parents between six and seven in the evening to play for an hour or two. The King also was kept informed of his children's educational progress. 192: 42: 2169: 2150: 301:
financial irresponsibility. Somewhat unusually for the period, the King was affectionate and indulgent with his young children, and strove to attend their birthday parties and other events organised for their merriment. On one occasion, a friend witnessed a happy domestic scene that involved George "carrying about in his arms by turns
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According to Queen Charlotte, Octavius's death was unexpected; she wrote to a friend who faced a similar tragedy that "twice have I felt what you do feel, the last time without the least preparation for such a stroke, for in less than eight and forty hours was my son Octavius, in perfect health, sick
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Octavius's death devastated his father; Walpole wrote "the King has lost another little child; a lovely boy, they say, of whom their Majesties were dotingly fond". The rest of the royal court, especially the attendants and caretakers of the young prince, were likewise distraught by Octavius's sudden
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Octavius was the last member of the British royal family to contract smallpox. Members of the royal household asserted that his death was not a result of the inoculation he had received, but rather a cold. Most accounts of George III and his family fail to identify a cause for Octavius's death,
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to the Queen, noted that Prince Octavius was "a lovely child of sweet disposition, showed every promise of future goodness." King George was extremely devoted to Octavius, who was too young to cause the kinds of trouble that his elder brothers did by this time, which included sexual misconduct and
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was completing the finishing touches on a set of portraits of the family. The King asked him to stop, but when he found out that the painting Gainsborough was working on was of Octavius, allowed the painter to continue. When this same painting was exhibited a week later, Octavius's sisters were so
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that upon Prince Alfred's death, King George had declared "I am very sorry for Alfred; but had it been Octavius, I should have died too." In 1820, the historian Edward Holt wrote of the Prince's character, "Though Prince Octavius had not passed his fifth year, he was considered very docile, and
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that every day "increases the chasm I feel for want of that beloved object ". In later years, King George imagined conversations with his two youngest sons. During one of the King's bouts of madness in 1788, George mistook a pillow for Octavius, who by that time had been dead for five years.
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virus. Several days later, he became ill. His subsequent death at the age of four devastated his parents, and in particular his father. King George III had been very fond of his two youngest sons, Alfred and Octavius, and his
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virus. Sophia recovered without incident, but Octavius became ill and died several days later, on 3 May 1783 at around eight in the evening. He was four years old. A letter from the governess of the royal children,
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possessed good-nature in such an uncommon degree, that he was the delight of all about him." The 19th-century biographer John Watkins added that Octavius was "reckoned one of the finest of the royal progeny".
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on the Sussex coast, where he could take in the fresh seaside air during the summer of 1780. When he was nineteen months old, Octavius became an older brother with the birth of his younger brother
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upset that they broke down and cried in front of everyone, and their parents were also visibly touched. Three months after Octavius's death, his father was still dwelling on his son, writing to
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and struck with death immediately". The prince's death had a marked effect, both mentally and physically, on Queen Charlotte, who at the time was pregnant with her youngest child,
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death. Shortly afterward, King George said "There will be no Heaven for me if Octavius is not there." The day after his son's death, the King passed through a room where artist
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themselves make little mention of the prince's death, merely noting the date and the age at which he died. On 10 May, Octavius was buried alongside his brother Alfred at
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Octavius was attached to Princess Sophia, the sister who was closest to him in age, who called Octavius "her son". He went with her and their siblings,
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The Public and Domestic Life of His Late Most Gracious Majesty, George the Third, Volume 1
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Memoirs of Her Most Excellent Majesty Sophia-Charlotte: Queen of Great Britain, Volume 1
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Fritz, Paul S. (1982). "The Trade in Death: The Royal Funerals in England, 1685–1830".
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Octavius was christened on 23 March 1779, in the Great Council Chamber at
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Six months after Alfred's death, Octavius and Sophia were taken to
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Prince Charles Edward, Duke of Albany and of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
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The Elder Sons of George III: Kings, Princes, and a Grand Old Duke
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The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford, Volume VIII
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but a few mention the inoculation as a potential culprit. The
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Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
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The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
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Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
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as His Royal Highness The Prince Octavius, with the
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Prince Octavius
Painting of Octavius as a young boy with long blonde hair, wearing brown overalls and a blue hat
Benjamin West
Buckingham House
Kew Palace
Westminster Abbey
St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
House
Hanover
George III
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
King George III
queen consort
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Prince Alfred
inoculated
smallpox
later bouts of madness
hallucinations
Portrait of Prince Octavius as a young boy in 1782, by Thomas Gainsborough. He is depicted with long, flowing blonde hair and a yellow and blue shirt.
Thomas Gainsborough
Buckingham House
King George III
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Latin
eighth son
House of Lords
St James's Palace
Frederick Cornwallis
Archbishop of Canterbury

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