The Succession to the Crown Act 2013 went into effect on 26 March 2015, marking the end of many years of male-preference primogeniture. Before this Act, the succession was settled on Sophia of Hanover and the “heirs of her body” with the Act of Settlement of 1701. Per common law, this implied male-preference primogeniture. This [read more]
*review copy* *contains affiliate links* The future King George IV was famously married twice, once illegally to Maria Fitzherbt and once legally to Caroline of Brunswick. Maria Fitzherbert, already twice a widow, was basically harassed into becoming his wife. Their wedding went against the Royal Marriages Act of 1772 and was thus never valid. Even [read more]
An emerald and diamond brooch that belonged to Princess Charlotte of Wales is headed for auction in July. Princess Charlotte would have succeeded her father, King George IV, as Queen if she hadn’t died in childbirth in 1817. The brooch was given by Princess Charlotte’s husband, Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, who went on to become [read more]
The wedding dress of Princess Charlotte of Wales, the only legitimate child of the future King George IV, is going on display for the time in over a decade. It will be part of the new exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace: Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians. The exhibition explores the fashion of [read more]
Read part one here. King Louis XVIII was quite fond of Maria Amalia, and he wrote of her, “I had heard a great deal in favour of this Princess, but when I became personally acquainted with her, I found in her many more good qualities than I had been to led to expect. Such a [read more]
Princess Charlotte of Wales was born into tragedy as the only child of parents who had been at war since the moment they married. That Charlotte was born at all seems to be nothing short of a miracle. As the only legitimate child of the Prince of Wales (the future George IV) and Caroline of [read more]
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