3483 x 5205 px | 29,5 x 44,1 cm | 11,6 x 17,4 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
27. Februar 2007
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Princess Charlotte was born on 29 September 1766 at Buckingham Palace, London. Her father was the reigning British monarch, George III. Her mother was Queen Charlotte (née Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz). She was christened on 27 October 1766 at St James's Palace, by The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Thomas Secker, and her godparents were The King and Queen of Denmark (her paternal aunt and her husband, for whom The Duke of Portland and The Dowager Countess of Effingham stood proxy, respectively) and Princess Louisa (her paternal aunt). As the daughter of the British monarch, Charlotte was styled HRH The Princess Charlotte at birth. She was styled HRH The Princess Royal from October 1766 and officially designated as such on 22 June 1789. Until she was married, Charlotte was always called "Royal", instead of her given name. Like her siblings, the Princess Royal was educated by tutors and spent most her childhood at Buckingham Palace, Kew Palace, and Windsor Castle, where her wetnurse was Frances wife of James Muttlebury (Court and Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte: Being the Journals of Charlotte Louise Henrietta Papendiek, Charlotte Louise Henrietta Papendiek, 1887, p. 69) Marriage On 18 May 1797, the Princess Royal was married at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, London to The Hereditary Prince Frederick of Württemberg, the eldest son and heir apparent of Duke Frederick II Eugene of Württemberg and his wife, Margravine Sophia Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt. The younger Frederick succeeded his father as the reigning Duke of Württemberg on 22 December 1797. Duke Frederick II had two sons and two daughters by his first marriage to the late Princess Augusta (3 December 1764 – 27 September 1788), the daughter of Duke Karl II of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Princess Augusta of Great Britain (the elder sister of George III) and the elder sister of Caroline of Brunswick, the estranged wife of the future George IV (then Prince of
