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Princess Louise was born as the fifth daughter and youngest child of the then Prince and Princess of Wales, on 7 December 1724, at Leicester House, London.

She was baptised " Louisa " there on 22 December.

Her godparents were her elder sister and two cousins: Princess Amelia of Great Britain, Princess Louisa Ulrika of Prussia ( for whom Sarah Lennox, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox, stood proxy ), and Frederick, Prince Royal of Prussia, later Frederick the Great ( for whom Henry de Nassau d ' Auverquerque, 1st Earl of Grantham, stood proxy ).