Frederick, King of the British

Full name
	Edward Frederick William

Frederick
Frederick
King of the British and of the People of his other Realms ;
Canada	1923-1957
Australia	1923-1957
New Zealand	1923-1957
British Leeward Islands	1923-1957
British Windward Islands	1923-1957
Pakistan	1947-1957
South Africa	1923-1957
Ceylon	1923-1957
Ghana	1923-1957
Nigeria	1923-1957
Sierra Leone	1923-1957
Tanganyika	1923-1957
Uganda	1923-1957
Malawi	1923-1957
Malta	1923-1957
The Gambia	1923-1957
Guyana	1923-1957
Mauritius	1923-1957
Fiji	1923-1957
Puerto Rico	1923-1957
India	1947-1950
Kenya	1923-1941
Reign	5 January 1923 - 7 July 1957
Coronation	17 May 1923
Predecessor	George V
Successor	Charles III
Prime Ministers	See list Bonar Law; Stanley Baldwin; Ramsay MacDonald; Neville Chamberlain; Winston Churchill; Clement Attlee;
King of Hanover
Reign	5 January 1923 - 20 November 1924
Coronation	17 May 1923
Predecessor	George V
Successor	Merged with the United Kingdom through the Kingdom of Hanover Act 1924
Emperor of India
Reign	5 January 1923 - 15 August 1947
Predecessor	George V
Successor	Position abolished
Emperor of India
Born	Prince Frederick of Wales and Prussia; 22 November 1895; Rideau Hall, Ottawa, Canada
Died	7 July 1957 (aged 63); Buckingham Palace, London
Burial	25 July 1957; Westminster Abbey, London
Spouse	Victoria Louise of Prussia; (m. 1913; ann. 1919); Margaretha of Sweden (m. 1925)
Issue; Detail	Charles III; Margaret, Duchess of Halland;
Full name
Full name
	Edward Frederick William
House	Hanover
Father	George V
Mother	Sophia of Prussia
Religion	Protestant

Frederick (English: Edward Frederick William; German: Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm; 22 November 1895 - 7 July 1957) was King of the British and King of Hanover from 5 January 1923 to 7 July 1957. He was also the last Emperor of India, reigning from 1923 to 1947 until the abolition of the British Raj and its subsequent partition into India and Pakistan.

The eldest son of King George V and Princess Sophia of Prussia, Frederick was born during the reign of his grandfather King William V. At the age of eighteen, he was wedded to Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, daughter of German Emperor Wilhelm II, in an attempt at mending British-German relations. However, despite the birth of a son, namely the future Charles III, the end of the First World War, coupled with existing ideological differences, resulted in the couple having their marriage annulled as Frederick subsequently remarried to Princess Margaretha of Sweden, with whom he had a daughter.

Upon ascending to the throne in 1924, Frederick oversaw a rather tumultuous post-war period, which was further aggravated by the occurrence of the Great Depression in 1929. However, it was during this time that Frederick later gained much personal acclaim for his efforts in preserving the monarchical institution amidst rising but otherwise small republican and other extreme sentiments across the country. In addition, as King, Frederick also oversaw his country's involvement in the Second World War against Nazi Germany, a conflict that would mark the last few years of his reign and which preceded a rather tumultuous and testy period afterward marked by anti-colonial rebellions in various British colonies in Asia, namely the British Raj. On 7 July 1957, at the age of fifty-five, Frederick passed away and was thereafter succeeded by his only living son who ascended to the throne as King Charles III.