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.
The Times, on behalf of the English population, welcomes Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on his wedding day to Queen Victoria, London, England, February 10, 1840
We welcome his Royal Highness to his adopted country in a spirit of frank and true cordiality.
We
wish him all happiness.
We wish him the full reward of public and private virtue in a nation’s approval and in his own. Should he deviate into error, we will respectfully caution him. Should he suffer from calumny, we will strenuously defend him. And so, gallant stranger, we bid you welcome, and God prosper and protect you.
The Spokane Press, Washington, September 5, 1907
In 1913 Victoria Louise married Ernest Augustus (who became Duke of Brunswick six months later). Their wedding, a lavish affair, would be one of the last big social events for the European royals before the outbreak of WWII. In 1917 Ernest would lose his British title, that of Duke of Cumberland, due to the Titles Deprivation Act, because of his services for Germany in the war.
Prince Leopold of Battenberg, who became Lord Leopold Mountbatten after the British Royal Family renounced their German titles during WWII, never married and died from complications of a hip operation in 1922, at 32 years old. He is buried at the Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore.
London, November 20, 1947
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