The married life and death of Queen Caroline (1768-1821 were equally frenzied. His creed is that she was a child-fancier: that Pergami’s elevation was all owing to her attachment to Victorine, and he says his conviction is strengthened every day of her entire innnocence as to Bergami.

“. ©2020 Number One London Blog. (c) National Galleries of Scotland; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation. The couple separated but Caroline was not provided with a suitable allowance or a home.

She indulged in flirtations with a number of her guests and she formed intense, but often short-lived, friendships without regard as to whether they were appropriate. Apparently illness had accomplished what he had tried to do so often in life — rid himself of Caroline. George, for his part, only married Caroline to increase his personal allowance from Parliament. Any way it was Lady Jersey who met Caroline when she disembarked and traveled with her to meet the Prince and went along on their honeymoon with them. The Duchess of Brunswick duly passed on these fears to her brother George III, writing in October 1795: ‘I fear some black design, Lady Jersey turns every word the poor Princess says, and her whole thrust is to hurt her in your opinion.’ The Duchess went on to lament that her daughter was ‘frightened out of her senses.’. Glorious Georgian gossip from the quill of Catherine Curzon. Though there were rumors of poison and other nefarious plots, her death was officially ruled to be from natural causes. ", The Continuing Story of "Mad Jack" Mytton, The True Story of Regnecy Eccentric "Mad Jack" Mytton, A TOUR GUIDE IN ENGLAND – WHAT WE SAW AT CHATSWORTH HOUSE, WOW ~ Word of the Week ~ Nicknacks – Obstinate Headstrong Girl … author Renée Reynolds, Guest Post: A Farewell to Donald Hendricks. It was in this way that I came across Princess Caroline of Brunswick, the estranged wife of the Prince Regent, later King George IV. Following a sojourn at Villa d’Este by Lake Como, they set off on extensive travels abroad.

They despised one another - the prince found her fat, ugly, rude, and her lack of personal hygiene disgusting. They travelled back to Italy, eventually arriving in Pesaro in 1818.

We will continue reporting on Queen Caroline’s death and burial soon. The Duchess, therefore, retired from court and found solace in religion, but remained worried that her husband was setting an immoral example to their children. .

I have seen Lushington and Wilde repeatedly. He has been at Harwich, where he saw the body of the Queen embarked about 3 o’clock on Thursday; and then immediately came across the country, and, after travelling all night, got here to dinner yesterday, and proceeds to Durham to-night to join the circuit there. Her Majesty has quitted a scene of uninterrupted persecution, and for herself I think her death is not to be regretted. . Did Caroline think her husband and his mistress were plotting against her? The events of the Princess’s life from 1819 to her death in 1821 are outlined in The Dressmaker’s Secret. Was she scared of being locked away in a castle - or even framed for adultery? … I shall, I think, be satisfied with going to Harwich with it, and not go, as I had intended, to Brunswick.”. I am thrilled to welcome Hannah Moss today with the tale of a very real Gothic heroine!

Prostitution and the Law in the Long 18th Century, Magic, Witches & Devils at The John Rylands Library, Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi, Napoleon’s Smart Sister, The Price of a Woman Scorned: Victor de Riqueti, Marquis de Mirabeau, The Holy Life of Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha Antonia of Austria, A Regal Disagreement: Charlotte, Princess Royal. She rented a house in middle-class Blackheath, where she held some kind of a court, encouraging politicians and society figures to visit. She died on August 7, 1821,  just a month after her husband’s lavish coronation ceremony which she was physically restrained from attending.

In later life Caroline recalled how she felt like a 'shuttlecock' between her parents - if she showed any regard for one, the other would scold her for it. In turn, she found the prince fat and rude. He was, however, perturbed by her free and easy manner. . I haven't read anything about Caroline that makes me admire her. According to Caroline her mother 'could not suffer the attachment' between the Duke and Luise.

… It was as it should be and the only thing that was so during the six and twenty years’ connection of this unhappy woman with this country. .