Charlotte Augusta of Wales
Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (London, January 7, 1796 - Claremont House (Esher, Surrey), November 6, 1817) was a British princess.
She was the daughter of the prince of Wales, the later King George IV and his wife Caroline of Brunswick. Her parents had a particularly bad marriage and actually lived divorced after the birth of their daughter. Charlotte hardly saw her mother. As sole child of the British throne, she seemed advised to follow her father as a monarch.
In 1814 she was engaged for several months with the Dutch prince Willem (the later King William II), but she broke the engagement. On May 2, 1816, she married Leopold of Saxony-Coburg, the later king of the Belgians. Leopold was encouraged by the brother-in-law of his sister and patron, Russian Tsar Alexander I, who wanted to prevent a British-Dutch dynastic union. Princess Charlotte Augusta had musical talent and composed four marches for the musical chapel of the 49th Princess Charlotte or Wales's Hertfordshire Regiment, stationed in Weymouth, as well as a "slow march" as a tribute to the 1st Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley.
Contemporaries reported that Leopold and Charlotte formed a happy couple. On November 5, 1817, after a childbirth that lasted fifty hours, she died of a born-in son. One day after, she herself died from the consequences. The midwife later committed a suicide to another woman's suicide. Her death led to great uncertainty about succession. Hasteful marriages of her unmarried uncles were the result.
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