33 Facts About Queen Adelaide

Queen Adelaide's mother was Luise Eleonore, daughter of Christian Albrecht, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.

Queen Adelaide's godparents numbered twenty-one, including her mother, the Holy Roman Empress, the Queen of Naples and Sicily, the Crown Princess of Saxony, the Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg, the Duchess of Saxe-Weimar, the Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and the Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld.

However, Queen Adelaide seemed the ideal candidate: amiable, home-loving, and willing to accept William's illegitimate children as part of the family.

Queen Adelaide's dowry was set at 20,000 florins, with additional three separate annuities being promised by her future husband, the English regent, and the state of Saxe-Meiningen.

Queen Adelaide married William in a double wedding with William's brother, Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, and his bride Victoria, Dowager Princess of Leiningen, on 11 July 1818, at Kew Palace in Surrey, England.

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Queen Adelaide improved William's behaviour; he drank less, swore less, and became more tactful.

Queen Adelaide became pregnant again, and a second daughter, Elizabeth Georgiana Adelaide, was born on 10 December 1820 at St James's Palace.

William and Queen Adelaide were crowned on 8 September 1831 at Westminster Abbey.

Queen Adelaide was deeply religious and took the service very seriously.

Queen Adelaide was beloved by the British people for her piety, modesty, charity, and her tragic childbirth history.

Queen Adelaide treated the young Princess Victoria of Kent with kindness, despite her inability to produce an heir and the open hostility between her husband and Victoria's mother, the Dowager Duchess of Kent.

Queen Adelaide refused to have women of questionable virtue attend her Court.

Queen Adelaide never spoke about politics in public; however, she was strongly Tory.

False rumours circulated that she was having an affair with her Lord Chamberlain, the Tory Lord Howe, but almost everyone at court knew that Queen Adelaide was inflexibly pious and was always faithful to her husband.

In October 1834, a great fire destroyed much of the Palace of Westminster, which Queen Adelaide considered divine retribution for the vagaries of reform.

The Duchess refused to acknowledge Queen Adelaide's precedence, left letters from Queen Adelaide unanswered, and commandeered space in the royal stables and apartments for her use.

The breach between the Duchess and the King and Queen Adelaide was never fully healed, but Victoria always viewed both of them with kindness.

Queen Adelaide was dangerously ill in April 1837, at around the same time that she was present at her mother's deathbed in Meiningen, but she recovered.

Queen Adelaide stayed beside William's deathbed devotedly, not going to bed herself for more than ten days.

In early October 1838, for health reasons, Queen Adelaide travelled to Malta aboard HMS Hastings, stopping at Gibraltar on the way, and staying on Malta for three months.

Queen Adelaide had been given the use of Marlborough House, Pall Mall in 1831, and held it until her death in 1849.

Queen Adelaide had the use of Bushy House and Bushy Park at Hampton Court.

Queen Adelaide became a tenant of William Ward and took up residence at the latter's newly purchased house, Witley Court in Worcestershire, from 1842 until 1846.

Semi-invalid by 1847, Queen Adelaide was advised to try the climate of Madeira for the winter that year, for her health.

Queen Adelaide donated money to the poor of the island and paid for the construction of a road from Ribeiro Seco to Camara de Lobos.

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Queen Adelaide gave the font and when the church was completed after her death, the east window was dedicated to her memory.

Queen Adelaide died during the reign of her niece Queen Victoria on 2 December 1849 of natural causes at Bentley Priory in Middlesex.

Queen Adelaide wrote instructions for her funeral during an illness in 1841 at Sudbury Hall:.

Queen Adelaide's name is probably best remembered in the Australian state of South Australia, founded during the brief reign of William IV.

The Queen Adelaide Society was inaugurated in Adelaide in 1981 by the late Dorothy Howie with the twin objectives of promoting public awareness of Queen Adelaide and to provide an annual donation to a South Australian children's charity.

The Citadel in Port Louis, capital of the Republic of Mauritius, is named Fort Queen Adelaide, the building having been started during the reign of William in 1834.

In 1832 Queen Adelaide Township was surveyed in what became the western part of Middlesex County in Ontario.

Queen Adelaide was played by Harriet Walter in the 2009 film The Young Victoria, as a kindly but practical counsellor to the inexperienced queen.