Lord North was born in London on 13 April 1732 at the family house at Albemarle Street, just off Piccadilly, though he spent much of his youth at Wroxton Abbey in Oxfordshire. North's strong physical resemblance to George III of the United Kingdom suggested to contemporaries, including George IV of the United Kingdom who famously remarked that “either his royal grandmother or North’s mother must have played her husband false”, That George III's father, Frederick, Prince of Wales, might have been North's real father and North was actually the king's half brother, a theory compatible with the prince's reputation but supported by little else other than the circumstantial evidence. That North's father, Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford, was from 1730 to 1751 Lord of the Bedchamber to Frederick, Prince of Wales who stood as godfather to the infant, christened Frederick, possibly in memory of his real father.