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Poughkeepsie Journal, New York, June 26, 1816

The wedding of Princess Charlotte of Wales and Leopold I of Belgium was quite rowdy! 

…he was assailed by numbers of females patting him on the back, and calling blessings on him, &.; this gave a number of men, in the delay thus occasioned, an opportunity to take the traces from the carriage, and draw him without horses…

Princess Charlotte, with Leopold as her consort, would have been Queen of England upon the death of her father (instead of her cousin, Victoria), if she hadn’t died during childbirth to a stillborn son the year after her wedding.

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