By the time she had borne 14 of her 15 children, she wrote that “I don’t think a prisoner could wish more ardently for his liberty than I wish to be rid of my burden.” But court life was difficult for Charlotte, who clashed with her mother-in-law over the formal rules of the British aristocracy and found the expectation to bear plenty of heirs exhausting. Were Queen Charlotte and King George in love?īy all reports, the king and queen had an unusually happy marriage, and George III was a devoted father and husband. She would go on to bear 15 children during her long marriage. Soon, Charlotte had her first child, a daughter.

Everyone wanted to greet the new king and queen: At their coronation, so many well-wishers crowded them that it took two hours to for their procession to make it from the street into Westminster Abbey. Though she spoke no English and had never met her husband before her wedding day, Charlotte was now Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. Charlotte accepted, and the arranged marriage took place just six hours after the young princess arrived in England. And so, though George had never met Charlotte, in 1761 an emissary proposed marriage on his behalf. This was seen as a plus by George’s political advisers, who wanted British interests to prevail after the king’s marriage. complicated.)Ĭharlotte was unknown and thought to have no political connections or aims. ( Who was the first King of England? The answer is. George needed a wife, and he needed one fast, his advisers decided-and they mounted a desperate search for a Protestant princess to share his life and sire an heir. In 1760, George III’s grandfather died, making him King of England-and making his unmarried status a matter of national alarm. But this would work in the young woman’s favor when a far-off prince became king. Unauthorized use is prohibited.īorn in 1744 in Mecklenburg-Strelitz, a duchy in what is now Northern Germany, the princess had an unremarkable childhood in what other members of the European aristocracy considered to be a mediocre and provincial dukedom.

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