Princess Charlotte, George IV's daughter
Luc:
A new topic about: princess Charlotte of Wales, daughter of King George IV and Caroline of Brunswick. I know her parents had an ill-fated marriage... Let's post info and pictures of her !!
Luc:
Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales was born on 7 January 1796 in the Carlton House in London, her fathers reidence. She was the only child of the Prince and Princess of Wales, George IV and Caroline. Who has more info about her and her relationship with her father and mother ?? Please post then !
Yseult:
Luc, here you have a few well-known images of princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales:
As far as I know, she had a very sad childhood. The marriage between her father and her mother was absolutely unhappy, prince George found his cousin-and-bride Caroline absolutely ugly and unhygienic, and Caroline regarded George as an unattractive man. They had just three sexual intercourses in their marriage, she became pregnant and the couple never lived together afterwards. When Charlotte was a baby, her parents lived apart. George banished his wife to a private residence, The Pagoda, and restricted the time Caroline could spend with their common daughter. So, Charlotte grew up without the warmth tender of both her father and her mother, cause George was involved in his affair with the flamboyant countess of Jersey while it is said that, in The Pagoda, Caroline had an intimate relationship with George Canning.
But Charlotte paternal grand-mother, after whom the girl has been named, tried in vain to supply the parents. Sadly, queen Charlotte was a devoted wife to her husband, mad king George, so she can´t provide her grand-daughter all the time the girl needed. Your princess Charlotte grew up as a rather spoiled creature and she became a headstrong young woman. She rejected her bethrotal to the prince Willem of Netherlands, with the support of a russian grand duchess, Ekaterina Paulovna, beautiful dowager duchess of Oldenburg, who visited England after the defeat of Napoleon by the allies at the Battle of Leipzig. Funny enough: it is said that Ekaterina tried to ensure the split between princess Charlotte and Willen because herself was attached to the Orange prince, but, during her journey in England, the russian energetic grand duchess fell madly in love with her cousin Wilhelm, crown prince of Württemberg.
Luc:
But... why didn't her grandparents care for their granddaughter? I read somewhere that her father said: "Charlotte have to give up the crazy thought to possess an own will. So long as I live, she has to obey me. Even when she has got 30, 40 or 50 years." And what you said about prince Willem of the Netherlands, he married in 1816 the sister of Catharina Pavlovna, Anna !
Prince_Christopher:
Here is a link to an interesting page about Charlotte:
http://www.georgianindex.net/Prn_Charlotte/P_Charlotte.html
She has always been one of my favorites, of that period, one of the "what-ifs" that makes history so intriguing.
By all accounts, she was a lively and well-liked girl, but rebellious and headstrong as well. Considering who her parents were, she turned out rather well and it would have been interesting to see how she lived out her life. The public loved her fanatically and her death was a terrible shock to the world that existed then.
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