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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 grandson of King George V and paternal cousin of Queen 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 3,698,666 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Prince William of Gloucester is the 10,396th most popular politician (down from 10,176th in 2019), the 2,239th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,314th in 2019) and the 345th most popular British Politician.

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  • 51.65

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Prince William of Gloucester ranks 10,396 out of 15,577. Before him are Sinan Hasani, Ahmad Qavam, Fyodor Sergeyev, Abu Yahya ibn Abd al-Haqq, Virius Nicomachus Flavianus, and Seuthes I. After him are Antti Rinne, Sukhdev Thapar, Abdelaziz Djerad, Geoffrey II of Villehardouin, Muqtada al-Sadr, and Dirk Stikker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Prince William of Gloucester ranks 236. Before him are Aleksandar Shalamanov, Vyacheslav Vedenin, Daniel Schmid, Miriam Margolyes, Yevhen Marchuk, and Andrea de Adamich. After him are Robert McKee, Desmond Dekker, Silvio Moser, David Johnston, Jiří Raška, and Alfred Aho. Among people deceased in 1972, Prince William of Gloucester ranks 107. Before him are Thomas C. Kinkaid, František Čáp, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Roberto Clemente, Bruce Cabot, and Miriam Hopkins. After him are Mahendra of Nepal, Friedrich Christiansen, Alfons Gorbach, Maximus V of Constantinople, Ennio Flaiano, and Cecil Day-Lewis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Prince William of Gloucester ranks 2,239 out of 7,765. Before him are Sylvia Pankhurst (1882), George Romney (1734), Rachel Ward (1957), Miriam Margolyes (1941), Roger Cotes (1682), and Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730). After him are Nick Hornby (1957), Adam Clayton (1960), Anthony Quayle (1913), Llywelyn the Great (1173), George Mary Searle (1839), and Claude Rains (1889).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Prince William of Gloucester ranks 345. Before him are Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1406), David Trimble (1944), John Owen (1616), Phil Taylor (1960), Prasutagus (50), and Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730). After him are Llywelyn the Great (1173), Dionysios Kasdaglis (1872), Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563), Æthelbald of Mercia (null), Ernst Wilhelm Bohle (1903), and Asma al-Assad (1975).

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