The Georgian Papers programme to digitise the material in the Royal Archives is proceeding apace, and the latest postings include the papers of Princess Charlotte. My blog on my experiences of working on her papers is up as well and can be read here. In it, I point out that between the summer of 1814 and the beginning of January 1815, Charlotte was courting two Prussian princes, Prince Frederick (above), the nephew of King Frederick William III, and Prince Augustus, the king's cousin. But when she was disappointed in both of them, she fastened on another German prince, Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, as her husband. He was second (or third!) best, but she fell deeply in love with him, and their short marriage was intensely happy.
The post was taken up in the Times of 26 May and can be read here. The Tatler then followed this up with its own article - though they published a portrait, not of Charlotte's Prince Frederick of Prussia, but a much later Prussian prince, Crown Prince Frederick, the future Emperor Frederick III and the father of Kaiser William II!
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