George III (1738-1820) and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744-1818)

[CyrilVladisla]

How many daughters did King George III and Queen Charlotte have?

 

[Denville]

do you seirously not know?

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Charlotte, Princess Royal was the eldest daughter of King George III and Queen Charlotte.
She became Queen of Wurttemberg as the wife of King Frederick I of Wurttemberg.
http://www.gogmsite.net/_Media/1800-princess-charlotte-2.jpeg

 

[An Ard Ri]

The Wedding Night of Frederick and Charlotte was famously satirised in 1797 by James Gilray.

 

[An Ard Ri]

A BBC Documentary on King George III
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0fblrg0/why-is-king-george-iii-remembered-as-a-mad-man-

 

[Prinsara]

It doesn't seem to mention the actual documentary's name, just shows a clip.

 

[CyrilVladisla]

King George III of England married at an extremely young age. Was this absolutely necessary? Also, how well did he know his wife? How well did the new Queen know her spouse?

 

[Curryong]

George III was 23 when he married. I don’t know that I would call that extremely young by the standards of monarchy in the 18th century. He was a susceptible young man and it was thought that he would be better off married.

He and Charlotte, his prospective wife, didn’t know each other at all. He proposed to her through official intermediaries and was influenced by his mother as to suitable Protestant Princesses. She accepted, was escorted to England and they were married almost immediately. However they were happily married (with the exception of George’s mental health troubles) and had an enormous family.

 

[Denville]

THe marriage really went south when George became mentally ill, however. Charlotte was afraid of him and hostile to him.

 

[An Ard Ri]

Queen Charlotte kept a friendly correspondence with Queen Marie Antoinette and was quite horrified by the execution of Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette.

 

[Denville]

any royal was going to be pretty worried and horrified by the execution of the King and queen.

 

[Misskitty]

I'm interested in discussing the fictionalized Bridgerton and how much of the truth they put in. Also Queen Charlotte. Anyone watch these shows?

 

[Prinsara]

I'm interested in discussing the fictionalized Bridgerton and how much of the truth they put in. Also Queen Charlotte. Anyone watch these shows?

Not a lot of the truth at all. Bridgerton isn’t fictionalized; it’s alternate-historical fantasy. George’s illnesses didn’t occur until several decades later (and the show did an absolutely godawful job portraying mental illness — you literally cannot be that sick and losing touch with reality one moment and having a charming, coherent conversation with someone moments later; that’s not how it works). Also, George was never hot; also, the granddaughter who died, Princess Charlotte, was never Princess Royal (she would have had to be the king’s daughter), which was a very minor, easy to get right detail which they completely missed.

Charlotte was a very enthusiastic botanist; the show did get that right. She and all the children were also often stifled and unhappy by so much enforced domesticity and isolation. Charlotte was also naturally not that thrilled at being constantly pregnant. The real story is in the book A Royal Experiment, by Hadlow. There’s also a substantially more accurate portrayal of things in “Prince Regent”, a 70’s miniseries on Youtube.