Since England became a single ... As he had two older brothers, William IV never expected to be king and spent his youth in the Royal Navy, which later earned him the nickname the 'Sailor King'.

When William IV became King of the United Kingdom in 1830, England didn’t know what it was in for. Bawdy, brassy, and unapologetically obscene, there’s a reason the history books skip over ...

He succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother George IV in 1830, as the second son of George III, Prince Frederick Duke of York, had died in 1827 without a son. William IV and Queen Adelaide ...