Wilhelm IV. Zitate

Wilhelm IV. Zitate

Wilhelm IV. – engl. William IV.; vormalig HRH The Prince William Henry, Duke of Clarence and St Andrews, Earl of Munster – war ein Angehöriger des Hauses Hannover, einer Nebenlinie der Welfen.

Nach einer Karriere in der Royal Navy war Wilhelm als direkter Nachfolger seines älteren Bruders Georg IV. von 1830 bis 1837 König des Vereinigten Königreichs von Großbritannien und Irland sowie in Personalunion König von Hannover. Wilhelm war der letzte Monarch, der beide Herrschaftsämter vereinigte; mit seinem Tod endete die seit 1714 bestehende britisch-hannoversche Personalunion.

✵ 21. August 1765 – 20. Juni 1837

“I trust in God that my life may be spared for nine months longer, after which period, in the event of my death, no Regency would take place. I should then have the satisfaction of leaving the Royal authority to the personal exercise of that young lady [Princess, later Queen, Victoria], the heiress presumptive to the Crown, and not in the hands of a person now near me [Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent], who is surrounded by evil advisers and who is herself incompetent to act with propriety in the station in which she would be placed. I have no hesitation in saying that I have been insulted grossly insulted by that person, but I am determined to endure no longer a course of behaviour so disrespectful to me. Amongst other things, I have particularly to complain of the manner in which that young lady has been kept away from my Court; she has been repeatedly kept from my Drawing Rooms, at which she ought always to have been present, but I am fully resolved that this shall not happen again. I would have her know that I am King, and I am determined to make my authority respected, and for the future I shall insist and command that the Princess do upon all occasions appear at my Court, as it is her duty to do.”

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William IV of the United Kingdom

As quoted in The Early Court of Queen Victoria http://www.archive.org/stream/earlycourtofquee00jerruoft/earlycourtofquee00jerruoft_djvu.txt (1912) by Clare Jerrold