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Princess Elizabeth of Clarence was the second daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Clarence, who became King William IV and Queen Adelaide on the death of George IV in 1830.

Princess Elizabeth’s sitting room in Clarence House in 1949. Hulton Archive // Getty Images After the Queen's accession in 1952, she and her family moved into Buckingham Palace; in turn, the...

It was the London home of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother from 1953 until 2002 and was also the home of The Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, and The Duke of Edinburgh following their marriage in 1947. Today Clarence House is the official London residence of The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall.

Probably fearing she too would die, Elizabeth was christened the day of her birth. She died quite suddenly 12 weeks later on 4 March 1821 of an ‘intro-susception of the bowels’, most likely gastrointestinal junction. She was buried on 10 March 1821 in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle.

Clarence House is a royal residence on The Mall in the City of Westminster, London. It was built in 1825–1827, adjacent to St James's Palace, for the Duke of Clarence, the future king William IV . The four-storey house is faced in pale stucco.