Posterity, Love, and Children
Frederick William II had the following children:
- By Elizabeth Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg:
- Frederica Charlotte (1767–1820), who became Duchess of York by her marriage to Frederick, Duke of York
- By Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt:
- Frederick William III of Prussia (1770–1840)
- Christine (1772–73)
- Louis (1773–96)
- Frederika Louisa Wilhelmina (1774–1837), wife of William of Orange, afterwards King William I of the Netherlands
- Augusta (1780–1841), wife of William II, Elector of Hesse
- Charles (1781–1846)
- William (1783–1851)
Besides his relations with his maitresse en titre, the countess Lichtenau, the king—who was a frank polygamist—contracted two "marriages of the left hand" with Julie von Voß and the Sophie von Dönhoff.
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