Henry Edridge, A.R.A.

Princess Amelia, the fifteenth and last child of George III and Queen Charlotte, was born at the Royal Lodge, Windsor, on 7^th August 1783. She spent her youth with Princesses Mary and Sophia, and these three sisters, the youngest of the family, were painted together by Copley in 1785. She was said to have been a particular favourite of her father. From 1798 she began to suffer from ill health, which resulted in her being taken on visits, first to Worthing and later to Weymouth. It was in Weymouth in 1801 that she met and fell in love with Charles FitzRoy, son of the Earl of Southampton and an equerry. She died on 2^nd November 1810, aged only twenty-seven, nursed by her favourite sister Mary. By her will she left all her possessions to Charles FitzRoy. There is a drawing of her in a black dress by Edridge in the Royal Collection which is dated 1804.