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Frederick William III

noun
1.
King of Prussia who became involved in the Napoleonic Wars (1770-1840).





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... calm. Scarcely had the Graf surrendered his liberty than he fell passionately in love with his wife's adopted daughter, Helmine, a beautiful girl of eighteen, the child, it was believed, of humble parents. Frederick William III. of Prussia was one of her admirers, and had offered to marry her morganatically, and create her Herzogin von Breslau. But Helmine gave her royal suitor no encouragement, and he soon consoled himself with the Princess Liegnitz. Lucie spared no pains to marry off the inconvenient beauty, ...
— Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century • George Paston


Words linked to "Frederick William III" :   Hohenzollern, Rex, king, male monarch


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