High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Prince William, Duke of Gloucester (24 July 1689 – 30 July 1700) was the son of Princess Anne, who ascended the British thrones in 1702, and her husband, Prince George of Denmark and Norway. Styled Duke of Gloucester, he was their only child to survive infancy. Because his birth seemed to cement the Protestant succession established in the "Glorious Revolution", Gloucester was contemporaneously viewed as a Protestant champion.