My Family Tree

Mary Adelaide was the daughter of Prince Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge, the youngest surviving son of George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, she was therefore a first cousin of Queen Victoria. Her mother was Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel, the daughter of Prince Frederick of Hesse-Cassel. She was born in Hanover on 27 November 1833. The princess was christened with the names Mary Adelaide Wilhelmina Elizabeth at Cambridge House, Hanover by Rev John Ryle Wood, Chaplain to the Duke of Cambridge. She was named Mary Adelaide Wilhelmina Elizabeth for her aunt Princess Mary of Gloucester, Queen Adelaide, the King, and her aunt Princess Elizabeth Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg. Mary Adelaide had two elder siblings, a brother George born in 1819, who later succeeded his father as Duke of Cambridge and married the actress Sarah Fairbrother, and a sister Princess Augusta, who was born in 1822, who later married her first cousin, Frederick William of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The family grew up in H