William FitzClarence, 2nd Earl of Munster

Therefore, the second Earl of Munster was the great-grandson of King George III and first cousin once removed of Queen Victoria.

For the most part, FitzClarence led a typical Victorian upper-class life of hunting parties and balls.

He purchased a commission as ensign and lieutenant in the Scots Fusilier Guards on 1 July 1842.

[6] FitzClarence married his first cousin Wilhelmina Kennedy-Erskine (27 June 1830 – 9 October 1906) on 17 April 1855.

They had nine children[citation needed]: Lord Munster died in 1901, at 23 Palmeira Square, Hove, at the age of 77, when his second cousin Edward VII was on the throne of the United Kingdom.

Arms of FitzClarence, Earl of Munster: The royal arms of King William IV (without the escutcheon of the Arch Treasurer of the Holy Roman Empire and without the Crown of Hanover) debruised by a baton sinister azure charged with three anchors or [ 1 ]