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Jul 24, 2009 · The monument to Princess Charlotte. The monument built in the memory of Princess Charlotte (1796-1817) that presides in the Urswick Chapel in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, was constructed by M.C. Wyatt. The money required to cover its cost was raised through private subscription as early as 1817, the same year as the Princess’s death.
Photograph of the memorial to Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales who died in childbirth in 1817. The monument consists of five cowled figures in the throes of mourning positioned at the base. A central figure reaches for the sky with its right arm outstretched and is flanked by two angels, one of whom holds an infant in its arms.Princess Charlotte was the only child of George, Prince of Wales ...
Photograph of Princess Charlottes monument in the Urswick Chapel of St Georges Chapel in Windsor Castle. In the centre, a marble sculpture of Princess Charlotte ascends to heaven supported by two winged angels whilst at her feet, a group of mourners kneel.On 6 November 1817, Princess Charlotte, daughter of the Prince Regent and heir presumptive to the throne, died at Claremont House after a ...
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Princess Charlotte was the child of a broken marriage and from the time she was three, she never lived with either of her parents. Her father gave her erratic and intermittent attention, and she was always closer to her mother, though Caroline’s life was becoming an open scandal that threatened to engulf her daughter. She was an endearing, though w...
When Charlotte was 15, her grandfather descended into his final attack of insanity and her father became Prince Regent. She was now completely in his power. At the end of 1813, just before her 18th birthday, she was pressurised into becoming engaged to the Hereditary Prince of Orange, the heir to the Dutch throne. No sooner had she consented than s...
Charlotte now realised that the only way she could free herself from her father’s tyranny was to find a husband, but one she had chosen for herself. Her choice fell on Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, whom she had met when he came to England in the summer of 1814. He was young and handsome, a gallant soldier, but also a younger son without land or mo...
Charlotte and Leopold went to live at Claremont House, near Esher in Surrey. They lived quietly and happily, doing good works in the neighbourhood, with occasional theatre visits to London. It was under their patronage that the theatre was founded which was later to be known as the Old Vic. Early in 1817 Charlotte became pregnant. On 3 November, ab...
The country went into shocked mourning for its “people’s princess”. The grief was compounded by a succession crisis and Charlotte’s middle-aged uncles entered hasty marriages to ensure the continuance of the dynasty. The result was the birth of the future Queen Victoria to Edward, Duke of Kent, and Leopold’s sister, Victoire of Saxe-Coburg. Leopold...
- Anne Stott
Signature. Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (7 January 1796 – 6 November 1817) was the only child of George, Prince of Wales (later George IV), and Caroline of Brunswick. She was expected to ascend the British throne after the deaths of her grandfather, George III, and her father, but died in childbirth at the age of 21, predeceasing them ...
May 2, 2024 · It has not been verified by CNN. The Princess of Wales. London CNN —. A photograph of a beaming Princess Charlotte has been released by the Prince and Princess of Wales to mark her ninth ...
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