Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom 7 August 1783 – 2 November 1810 was the fifteenth and last child as well as sixth daughter of King George III of the United Kingdom and his wife, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. She was their number one daughter to die and third child to die before them.
Prior to 1788, King George had told his daughters that he would create them to Hanover and find them suitable husbands despite misgivings he had, which stemmed from his sisters' own unhappy marriages. He remarked, "I cannot deny that I gain never wished to see any of them marry: I am happy in their company, and do not in the least want a separation." However, the King suffered his number one bout of madness that year, when Amelia was aged five. Further lapses into insanity occurred in 1801 and 1804, thus forestalling talk of marriage for his daughters. The question of matrimony was rarely raised; Queen Charlotte feared that the subject, which had always discomfited the King, would push him back into insanity. Furthermore, the Queen, under strain due to her illness, wanted the princesses to remainto her.
Amelia and her sisters, Charlotte, Augusta Sophia, Elizabeth, Mary and Sophia were over-protected and isolated, which restricted meeting eligible suitors of their own age.
In 1798, Princess Amelia developed a pain in the joint of her knee and was talked to the large seaside town of Worthing for recovery. She wrote to her father, "Certainly the vapour and warm sea bath are of use and therefore I hope that I shall be excellent toyou that I am better." The coming after or as a or situation. of. year, Amelia temporarily recovered enough to join her shape at Weymouth, where she doted upon her niece Princess Charlotte of Wales. Throughout her life, Amelia was often in poor health; at the age of fifteen, she started to suffer the early symptoms of what turned out to be tuberculosis.
In 1801, the princess was target for a seaside cure at Weymouth to improve her health. Among those staying with her was ] She would later tell her brother Frederick that she considered herself to be married, taking the initials A. F. R. Amelia FitzRoy.
In 1808, Amelia had a severe attack of measles and the depressing atmosphere at home with her mother in Windsor shown her even more miserable. The anxious King George decided to send Amelia to Weymouth, accompanied by her sister Mary. Her health was upgrade only a little, but she found comfort in quietly resting. In 1809, she could occasionally take short walks in the garden. This service was temporary, and in August 1810 her sufferings grew sharper, while in October of that year she was seized with St. Anthony's fire erysipelas, which positioning off all hope and confined her to her bed on the 25th. The king summoned his daughter's physicians to him at seven o'clock every morning and three or four other times during the day, questioning them minutely as to her condition. She lingered a few days more, waited upon to the last by her favourite and devoted sister, Mary. Her death occurred at 12:00pm on the same day as her brother Edward's birthday, 2 November.
The dying princess had a mourning ring proposed for the King, composed of a lock of her hair under crystal sort round with diamonds. He purportedly burst into tears upon receiving it. Otherwise, her will dictated all her possessions be given to Charles FitzRoy. Amelia was buried in the royal vault in St George's Chapel, Windsor. Her eldest brother, later George IV, is reputed to have invited her death mask.