Talk:Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh

Latest comment: 5 years ago by Kowalmistrz in topic Hanover

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The infobox uses the word Reign for his tenure of the dukedom. Is that appropriate for a duke with no duchy? —Tamfang (talk) 04:48, 12 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

I don't think it's even appropriate for many dukes with duchies - we don't talk about the present prince of Wales's "reign" over the Duchy of Cornwall. "Tenure" should be used, I think. john k (talk) 06:01, 12 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

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The result of the move request was: moved. Jenks24 (talk) 11:37, 20 August 2014 (UTC)Reply



Prince William, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (son)Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh – Per Cambridge Alumni Database, Royal Warrant, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; his name is a better disambiguator than a parenthetical family relationship. DrKiernan (talk) 21:22, 11 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

  • As shown by the sources and the authority control links, he's generally called William Frederick. As all men are sons, "son" is imprecise as a disambiguator and applies equally to William Henry, who was the son of Prince Frederick. WP:AT recommends natural disambiguation (without parentheses) in addition to recommending precision. DrKiernan (talk) 10:47, 12 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
  • Support: as DrKiernan says, "son" is insufficient disambiguation. If you wanted to disambiguate them by their relationship then "the elder" and "the younger" would have been better. I'm rather surprised to see the argument that, in distinguishing between two men with slightly different names, removing that distinction makes the article title more accurate. Opera hat (talk) 23:49, 12 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
  • Another possibility is ...second Duke...Tamfang (talk) 08:17, 18 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

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Hanover

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Was he really a prince of Hanover? He was a great-grandson of the Elector of Hanover but not the King. He sure was a Hanoverian dynast and a Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg and in the line of succession to the Hanoverian throne but was he accorded a proper title when George III assumed the Royal title? Any source? For example, when Frederick III, Elector of Brandenburg assumed the title of King in Prussia, his nephews were given the titles of Princes in Prussia. Kowalmistrz (talk) 08:13, 9 July 2018 (UTC)Reply

Edit: he was not considered a Hanoverian dynast because of unequal character of his parents' marriage. Source- https://www.heraldica.org/topics/royalty/prince_highness.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kowalmistrz (talkcontribs) 11:04, 10 January 2019 (UTC)Reply