Talk:Hannah Lightfoot
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This article asserts, as fact, that the allegations of Hannah Lightfoot being the first wife of George III are false. Unfortunately several of the references cited in the article seem to believe they are true, consider the following quote from one of the articles listed:
The Prince of Wales's wedding in 1759 to Quaker girl Hannah Lightfoot and the births of their three children, were concealed to allow him to marry Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
I have no idea whether Hannah was indeed the rightfull Queen of England or not, but some legitimate scholarly debate seems to exist even within the sources cited by this non neutral author!
In fact, as I look further, two of the references are novels, and thus not appropriate to citation in an encyclopedia article. Of the works which present themselves as non-fiction only The Great Prentenders seems to reject the idea that there is any credibility to this story, and one seems to embrace the story as true. The others are at least objective and open to possibilties.
Even if Hannah Lightfoot had been telling the truth, she had no right to the throne whatsoever. Undoubedly, she would have been Queen of the United Kingdom and Ireland as the consort of the King but she died before the 1761 marriage of King George III and Queen Charlotte. As the latter marriage had produced three sons and the former marriage had produced a daughter, those two daughters would have been ineligable to succeed due to their sex. Princess Olive or no she would have remained Princess Olive regardless of whether she was their child or not. The lines of King George IV, King William IV and Queen Victoria therefore would not have been in doubt. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.44.1.200 (talk) 13:12, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
