Prince William of Gloucester

Full name
	William Henry Andrew Frederick

Prince William
Prince William
	Prince William of Gloucester visiting a cattle farm in Wales in 1971
Born	18 December 1941; Hadley Common, Barnet, Hertfordshire
Died	28 August 1972 (aged 30); Halfpenny Green, Staffordshire
Burial	2 September 1972; Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire
Full name
Full name
	William Henry Andrew Frederick
House	Windsor
Father	Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
Mother	Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott
Alma mater	Magdalene College, Cambridge; Stanford University;

Prince William of Gloucester (William Henry Andrew Frederick; 18 December 1941 – 28 August 1972) was a grandson of King George V and a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. At the time of his birth he was fourth in line to the throne, and ninth in line at the time of his death.

Life

He graduated from Cambridge and Stanford. He then joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, serving in Lagos and Tokyo, before returning to take over royal duties. He led an active life, flying Piper aircraft, trekking through the Sahara, and even ballooning.

He is still the most recent child of George III to be diagnosed with porphyria. Porphyria is widely believed to be the illness that most likely caused George III's mental breakdown.^[1]

Prince William died in 1972, aged 30, in an air crash while piloting his plane in a competition.

Prince William Of Gloucester Media

William as a young boy in Canberra in 1946, with his parents (far left and far right) and Lord and Lady Mountbatten
Prince William's coat of arms
Order of St John (UK) ribbon -vector

References

↑ Röhl, John C.G.; Warren, Martin; Hunt, David (1998). Purple Secret: Genes, 'Madness', and the Royal Houses of Europe. London: Transworld Publishers Ltd. ISBN 978-0552145503.

[purplesecret-1] Röhl, John C.G.; Warren, Martin; Hunt, David (1998). Purple Secret: Genes, 'Madness', and the Royal Houses of Europe. London: Transworld Publishers Ltd. ISBN 978-0552145503.

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