Duke Ernest Gottlob of Mecklenburg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German duke
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Place of Birth: Mirow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
About Duke Ernest Gottlob of Mecklenburg
- Duke Ernest Gottlob Albert of Mecklenburg (27 August 1742 – 27 January 1814) was a member of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
- As a younger son of Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg, Ernest was an elder brother of Queen Charlotte of the United Kingdom, who married King George III in 1761.
- Ernest followed his sister to England, where he unsuccessfully pursued marriage with the country's largest heiress, Mary Eleanor Bowes. Enormous debt would later lead Ernest to attempt another marriage with a princess from the House of Holstein-Gottorp, but Charlotte managed to dissuade him.
- Ernest eventually became the military governor of Celle in the Electorate of Hanover, of which his brother-in-law George III was the head.
- Ernest died in 1814 at the age of 71 during the reign of George III but under the regency of his nephew George IV.
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