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He was styled Duke of Cambridge, but never formally created so, because he died so young. However, Charles II of England, James" brother, approved of the marriage and the wedding between James and Anne was held on 3 September 1660 in London. Charles was born on 22 October and was baptised on 1 January 1661 at Worcester House.
However, he died before reaching the age of one, after becoming ill with smallpox.
He was buried in Westminster Abbey, on 6 May 1661. After James" death in 1667, at the age of three, another younger brother, Edgar was styled as such, but he, too, died at the age of three and all titles became extinct until the birth of the another son, also named Charles, in 1677.
During his short life, Charles bore a coat of arms, as a grandson of a British Sovereign, consisting those of the kingdom, differenced by a label argent of five points ermine. Ancestors.