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Prince William of Gloucester

1941 - 1972

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Prince William of Gloucester (William Henry Andrew Frederick; 18 December 1941 – 28 August 1972) was a member of the British royal family. The elder son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, he was a grandson of George V, nephew of Edward VIII and George VI, and first cousin of Elizabeth II. At birth, he was fourth in line to the throne; by the time of his death, he was ninth. A graduate of Cambridge and Stanford, he joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, serving in Lagos and Tokyo before returning to undertake royal duties. He was the most recent descendant of George III to be diagnosed with porphyria, a condition thought to have caused George III’s mental breakdown, and in William’s case, it was most likely hereditary. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Prince William of Gloucester is the 10,587th most popular politician (down from 9,500th in 2019), the 2,375th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,919th in 2019) and the 367th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Prince William of Gloucester ranks 10,587 out of 19,576. Before him are Traicho Kostov, Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì, Morgan Tsvangirai, Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria, Michael Krešimir II of Croatia, and Michael Mayr. After him are Abdellatif Filali, Princess Augusta of Cambridge, Moshood Abiola, Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen, Jaan Teemant, and Leo IV, King of Armenia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Prince William of Gloucester ranks 243. Before him are Ken Saro-Wiwa, Bob Wilson, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Sarah Miles, Charles Whitman, and Lynne Cheney. After him are Lothar Bisky, Richard Martin West, Jesse Jackson, Sean Flynn, Robert Guéï, and Chubby Checker. Among people deceased in 1972, Prince William of Gloucester ranks 108. Before him are Frank Knight, Edward Calvin Kendall, Ángel Romano, Jessie Royce Landis, Nikolay Krylov, and Lillian Moller Gilbreth. After him are Walter Jackson Freeman II, Erik Eriksen, Dan Blocker, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Günter Eich, and Robert Casadesus.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Prince William of Gloucester ranks 2,375 out of 8,785. Before him are Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (1640), Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810), Henry Irving (1838), Frederick Copleston (1907), Richard Lydekker (1849), and Alan Stacey (1933). After him are Raymond Williams (1921), Eadgifu of Wessex (null), Emma Darwin (1808), Aelred of Rievaulx (1110), Angela Carter (1940), and Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1473).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Prince William of Gloucester ranks 367. Before him are F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (1782), David Blunkett (1947), William Fox (1812), Ken Tyrrell (1924), Andrew Bertie (1929), and Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (1640). After him are Eadgifu of Wessex (null), Emma Darwin (1808), Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1473), Catherine Carey (1523), Konstantinos Paspatis (1878), and Cynewulf of Wessex (750).

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