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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.
This article was written the day of Princess Charlotte of Wales marriage to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
They proceeded to inspect the house, and continued to do so for about two hours. It is said to be very inconvenient and objectionable in many instances. The entrance from Oxford-street is extremely unpleasant. It has but one staircase, and that a very common one, very narrow, and very low.
Watercolor of Camelford-house by J. H. Shepard, 1850:
This article was written the day before
Princess Charlotte of Wales marriage to
Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
Had Charlotte outlived her father, George IV, she would have been Queen of England and Leopold would have been prince consort, but a year and a half later Charlotte died following childbirth, delivering a stillborn son. The accoucheur, Sir Richard Croft, who attended Charlotte throughout her pregnancy, committed suicide three months after her death.
In 1832, Leopold, as the first King of the Belgians, married again to Louise-Marie of Orleans.
Leopold’s nephew, Albert, became prince regent in 1840 when he married Queen Victoria. Victoria was born 18 months after Charlotte’s death.
A photo showing (among others) King Leopold and Queen Victoria, 1859:
In the picture: Queen Victoria,
Princess Alice (seated right), Prince Albert (Consort), Albert Edward (Prince of Wales),
Prince Philippe
(Count of Flanders, son of Leopold), Duke of Oporto, and King Leopold I of the Belgians.
The Times, London, May 1, 1816
This article was written the day before
Princess Charlotte of Wales marriage to
Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
Had Charlotte outlived her father, George IV, she would have been Queen of England and Leopold would have been prince consort, but a year and a half later Charlotte died following childbirth, delivering a stillborn son. The accoucheur, Sir Richard Croft, who attended Charlotte throughout her pregnancy, committed suicide three months after her death.
In 1832, Leopold, as the first King of the Belgians, married again to Louise-Marie of Orleans.
Leopold’s nephew, Albert, became prince regent in 1840 when he married Queen Victoria. Victoria was born 18 months after Charlotte’s death.
