a rose by any other name. Never was fate so cruel to one so fair as to Princess Charlotte of Wales, whose face peers wistfully from the heart of this perfect rose. A drop of dew, perhaps a tear, falls on a leaf for this heir to the British throne who might have brought light and grace to an unhappy royal house. Her father, the profligate George IV, had deserted Charlotte’s mother, Queen Caroline, even before the daughter’s birth, for the established comforts of Mrs. Fitzherbert, and later had his queen tried by the House of Lords for “improper conduct” with an Italian lover.
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The young princess grew up amid this scandal determined to find a happiness of her own in a marriage to Leopold of Saxe-Coburg in 1816. This she did-but it was short lived, for within the first year Charlotte died in childbirth at the age of twenty-one. England was plunged into deep mourning and countless mementos flooded the land, such as this engraving, The Royal Rose by P.W. Tomkins, to be found in the British Museum. Had Charlotte lived, she would have reigned instead of Queen Victoria.
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