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Prince William of Gloucester

1941 - 1972

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Prince William of Gloucester (William Henry Andrew Frederick; 18 December 1941 – 28 August 1972) was a member of the British royal family. The elder son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, he was a grandson of George V, nephew of Edward VIII and George VI, and first cousin of Elizabeth II. At birth he was fourth in line to the throne; he was ninth in line at the time of his death. A Cambridge and Stanford graduate, he joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office serving in Lagos and Tokyo, before returning to take over royal duties. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Prince William of Gloucester has received more than 3,873,586 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Prince William of Gloucester is the 9,505th most popular politician (up from 10,368th in 2019), the 1,919th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,233rd in 2019) and the 295th most popular British Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Prince William of Gloucester ranks 9,505 out of 19,576. Before him are Ilu-shuma, Ulpia Severina, Amha Selassie, Abderrahmane Youssoufi, Vitold Fokin, and Léon Flameng. After him are Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, Hotula Khan, Thorbjørn Jagland, Sophia Albertina, Abbess of Quedlinburg, and Hovhannes Kajaznuni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Prince William of Gloucester ranks 206. Before him are Kim Hye-ja, Ivanka Khristova, Carla Gravina, Esther Ofarim, Harald Nielsen, and Edmund Stoiber. After him are Leslie Lamport, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Wilson Pickett, Denys Arcand, Robert D. Putnam, and Chrysostomos II of Cyprus. Among people deceased in 1972, Prince William of Gloucester ranks 96. Before him are James F. Byrnes, Ángel Romano, Pierre Brasseur, Edward Calvin Kendall, Ivan Yefremov, and Dan Blocker. After him are Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Violette Leduc, Walter Jackson Freeman II, Lee Morgan, František Čáp, and Mahendra of Nepal.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Prince William of Gloucester ranks 1,919 out of 8,785. Before him are William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759), Penelope Fitzgerald (1916), Willibald (700), Gerald Gardner (1884), Mary Cartwright (1900), and Arthur Tansley (1871). After him are Mary Hopkin (1950), Julian Lennon (1963), Colin Davis (1927), George Whitefield (1714), Cynric (450), and John A. Macdonald (1815).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Prince William of Gloucester ranks 295. Before him are Ælle of Sussex (500), Catherine Ashton (1956), John Hume (1937), Rædwald of East Anglia (550), Louise, Princess Royal (1867), and William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759). After him are Cynric (450), John A. Macdonald (1815), Louisa Adams (1775), Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730), Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516), and John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (1859).

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