Friedrich Ludwig oder Frederick war das erste Kind von Georg II. August von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1683-1760), dem Kurfürsten von Hannover und König Georg II. von Großbritannien, und seiner Gattin Karoline Wilhelmine von Brandenburg-Ansbach (1683-1737). Er erblickte das Licht der Welt am 31. Januar 1707 und starb am 20. oder 31. März 1751.
"For their son, Prince Frederick [Friedrich Ludwig], neither George [II.] nor Caroline had much affection. They, not without some reason, pronounced him selfish, wayward, and vicious; and, to avoid the annoyance of his presence, they forced him to reside at Hanover, till the parliament and the people began to murmur at his absence; when, with an ill grace, the King called him to England. He arrived on the fourth of December, 1728, and shortly afterwards was created Prince of Wales, and sworn of the privy council. But the meeting between the Prince and his parents produced no happy result. The sire refused to pay the debts which the son had contracted during his residence abroad; and the son retaliated by throwing himself into the arms of the opposition, and it soon became apparent, that Prince Frederick was the most malicious and hated personal and political enemy of George II., his consort, and the court. ... 'Whenever,' observes Lord Hervey, 'the Prince [of Wales] was in the room with the King, it put one in mind of the stories one has heard of ghosts that appear to part of company, and are invisible to the rest; and in this manner, wherever the Prince stood, though the King passed him ever so often, or ever so near, it always seemed as if the King thought the place the Prince filled a void.'" (in: Francis Lancelott: The Queens of England and Their Times: Matilda, Queen of William the Conqueror, to Adelaide, Queen of William the Fourth, Volume 2, id., pp. 923/928).