Scott is not describing Charlotte herself, as she had been dead for eight years at time of writing, but rather oil paintings of Charlotte’s ancestors. Scott is recounting walking through the “old apartments” in Windsor Castle in October 1826 (eight years after Charlotte’s death), while they are being renovated. Scott is clearly commenting on the near-comical-bad paintings. Medals by John Kirk (L. Brown, A Catalogue of British Historical Medals 1760-1960: The Accession of George III to the Death of William IV, 1980, nos.168, 184).

During the Regency [ edit ] Queen Charlotte in her later years, painted by Stroehling, 1807, Royal Collection

The 'madness' of King George 

In this work, Valdes claims Charlotte’s link to Margarita de Castro y Sousa, but does not mention the further distant link to Madragana (which appears later in the GEN-MEDIEVAL mailing list thread and makes its way into Wikipedia). Valdes uses Charlotte’s ancestor Margarita de Castro y Sousa as evidence, stating that there are “six different lines” of ancestry between them, even though there only three lines of ancestry between them. Margarita appears once in Charlotte’s 9th generation and twice in Charlotte’s 10th generation, accounting for 1/256th of Charlotte’s ancestry. While most of this work focuses on the evolution and variations of the myth, we will start with a brief overview of her. A second half-length portrait attributable to Morland, the head comparable with the Oxford portrait, but less conspicuously dressed, was sold Sotheby’s, 2 August 1967, lot 292. See also 1767 and 1774 below. Painting by Joshua Reynolds, whole length seated in robes of state. Royal Academy (D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds, I, 2000, no.718). For the distribution of the many copies, see George III.

ordinary in features, but the farthest possible from anything like vulgarity. A professor might despise it, but in the Miniature by Jeremiah Meyer. Royal Collection (R. J. B. Walker, The eighteenth and early nineteenth century Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, 1992, no.253). Two copies are also in the Royal Collection (R. J. B. Walker, The eighteenth and early nineteenth century Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, 1992, nos.254, 1043). Allan Ramsay became one of the “Principal Painters in Ordinary” for King George III, a position he reportedly started from 1761 to his death in 1784. She shared a love of botany and plants with her husband, who became known as “Farmer George” due to his agricultural interests. The 'madness' of King George

From Princess Sophia To Queen Charlotte

Medal by Julien Colibert (L. Brown, A Catalogue of British Historical Medals 1760-1960: The Accession of George III to the Death of William IV, 1980, no.27, as 1761, but Colibert came to England in 1769). A bust-length miniature in the Royal Collection, attributed to Richard Collins (R. J. B. Walker, The eighteenth and early nineteenth century Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, 1992, no.173), resembles the Meyer. Queen Charlotte was played by Frances White in the 1979 television series Prince Regent, by Helen Mirren in the 1994 film The Madness of King George, [71] by Golda Rosheuvel in the 2020 Netflix original series Bridgerton, [72] and by India Amarteifio in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story. The principal surveys of Charlotte’s iconography are contained in the catalogues of the Royal Collection (Sir Oliver Millar, The Later Georgian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, I, 1969 and R. J. B. Walker, The eighteenth and early nineteenth century Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, 1992) and in the National Gallery exhibition catalogue by Michael Levey (M. Levey, A Royal Subject, Portraits of Queen Charlotte, 1977). Unfortunately, Queen Charlotte’s life’s end was far from blissful. After the onset of George III’s permanent “madness” in 1811, she grew temperamental — likely from the stress of her husband’s un-diagnosed mental condition — and even fought publicly with her son over her right to the crown.

In the contextual analysis below, you will read more about who Queen Charlotte was and the collection of portraits that Scottish portraitist, Allan Ramsay, painted of her. This will be followed by a formal analysis, providing a brief overview of one example of his portraits of her, titled Queen Charlotte, from 1762, which is part of the Royal Collection Trust in the United Kingdom.Charlotte was unknown and thought to have no political connections or aims. This was seen as a plus by George’s political advisers, who wanted British interests to prevail after the king’s marriage. And so, though George had never met Charlotte, in 1761 an emissary proposed marriage on his behalf. Charlotte accepted, and the arranged marriage took place just six hours after the young princess arrived in England. Despite this somewhat inauspicious start, Charlotte and George enjoyed an affectionate, fruitful partnership that endured until the king’s mental illness violently transformed his personality in the late 1780s. Now, a new spinoff of Netflix’s popular historical drama “ Bridgerton” is revisiting the royal couple’s love story. Titled “ Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story,” the six-episode limited series stars India Amarteifio as the young queen and Corey Mylchreest as her husband. Medal attributed to William Mossop, conjoined busts of the King and Queen (L. Brown, A Catalogue of British Historical Medals 1760-1960: The Accession of George III to the Death of William IV, 1980, no.529).

Medal by C. James and Thomas Wyon sr. (L. Brown, A Catalogue of British Historical Medals 1760-1960: The Accession of George III to the Death of William IV, 1980, no.304).Though she spoke no English and had never met her husband before her wedding day, Charlotte was now Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. Everyone wanted to greet the new king and queen: At their coronation, so many well-wishers crowded them that it took two hours to for their procession to make it from the street into Westminster Abbey. Soon, Charlotte had her first child, a daughter. She would go on to bear 15 children during her long marriage. Were Queen Charlotte and King George in love?