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Army career Photograph of Prince Charles of Prussia, c. 1860 Prince Charles entered the Prussian army in 1811 at the age of ten, with the rank of lieutenant in a regiment of the guards. In 1819, he became a member of the Prussian Staatsrat. In 1820, he became a major in the First Regiment of Foot Guards.

Prince Louis Charles of Prussia (German: Friedrich Ludwig Karl von Preußen) (born Potsdam, 5 November 1773; died Berlin, 28 December 1796) was the second son and third child of Frederick William II of Prussia and Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt .

Immediate Family Frederica Queen Consort of Hanover second cousin Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig von Pre... son Karl Georg Friedrich Wilhelm (Ka... son Friederike Wilhelmina Luise Amal... daughter Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmst... mother King Frederick William II of Pru... father Princess Frederica Charlotte of ... sister

Prince of Wales 1707–1751: Augusta of Saxe-Gotha 1719–1772: Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg 1708–1752: Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen 1713–1761: Christine of Hesse-Eschwege 1648–1702: Ferdinand Albert I of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 1636–1687: George III of the United Kingdom 1738–1820: Charlotte of Mecklenburg ...

Born in Berlin, Frederick was the son of Prince Louis Charles of Prussia and Duchess Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, later Queen of Hanover, nephew of King Frederick William III of Prussia and stepson of Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover . Princess Charlotte of Wales was interested in Frederick in 1814 and hoped to marry him.

She was a German princess who married successively Prince Louis Charles of Prussia, Prince Frederick William of Solms-Braunfels, and her first cousin Ernest Augustus. Through her 1815 marriage to Ernest, then Duke of Cumberland, Frederica became a British princess and Duchess of Cumberland.