Biography of Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England 1744-1818
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On 19 May 1744 Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England was born to Charles Louis Frederick Duke of Mecklenburg (age 36).
On 05 Jun 1752 [her father] Charles Louis Frederick Duke of Mecklenburg (age 44) died.
On 25 Oct 1760 King George II of Great Britain and Ireland (age 76) died at Kensington Palace. His grandson [her future husband] King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 22) succeeded III King Great Britain and Ireland. Duke Cambridge merged with the Crown.
In 1761 Elizabeth Gunning Duchess Hamilton and Argyll (age 27) was appointed Lady of the Bedchamber to Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 16).
In 1761 Frances Bisshopp (age 20) was appointed Maid of Honour to Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 16).
In 1761 Simon Harcourt 1st Earl Harcourt (age 47) was appointed special ambassador to Mecklenburg-Strelitz, to negotiate a marriage between [her future husband] King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 22) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 16) who he subsequently conducted to England.
On 08 Sep 1761 King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 23) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 17) were married at Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. She by marriage Queen Consort England. He the son of Frederick Louis Hanover Prince of Wales and Augusta Saxe Coburg Altenburg (age 41). They were second cousin twice removed. He a grandson of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland.
After 08 Sep 1761 Susan Tracy Keck Maid of Honour (age 16) was appointed Maid of Honour to Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 17).
Around 1762. Allan Ramsay (age 48). Portrait of Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 17).
On 12 Aug 1762 [her son] King George IV of Great Britain and Ireland was born to [her husband] King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 24) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 18).
On 16 Aug 1763 [her son] Prince Frederick Hanover Duke York of York was born to [her husband] King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 25) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 19).
In 1764 Charles William Ferdinand Brunswick Bevern (age 28) and [her sister-in-law] Princess Augusta Charlotte Hanover (age 26) were married. She the daughter of Frederick Louis Hanover Prince of Wales and Augusta Saxe Coburg Altenburg (age 44). She a granddaughter of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland.
On 29 Dec 1765 [her brother-in-law] Frederick Hanover (age 15) died.
Around 1766 Johan Joseph Zoffany (age 32). Portrait of Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 21).
On 29 Sep 1766 [her illegitimate daughter] Princess Charlotte Hanover was born illegitimately to [her husband] King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 28) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 22) at Buckingham House [Map].
On 02 Aug 1767 [her son] Edward Augustus Hanover 1st Duke Kent and Strathearn was born to [her husband] King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 29) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 23) at Buckingham House [Map].
Around 1768. Nathaniel Dance-Holland (age 32). Portrait of Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 23).
On 13 May 1768 [her sister-in-law] Louisa Hanover (age 19) died.
On 08 Nov 1768 [her daughter] Princess Augusta Sophia Hanover was born to [her husband] King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 30) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 24).
On 22 May 1770 [her daughter] Princess Elizabeth Hanover was born to [her husband] King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 31) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 26).
On 05 Jun 1771 [her son] Ernest Augustus King Hanover was born to [her husband] King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 33) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 27) at Buckingham House [Map].
On 27 Jan 1773 [her son] Prince Augustus Frederick Hanover 1st Duke Sussex was born to [her husband] King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 34) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 28) at Buckingham House [Map].
On 24 Feb 1774 [her son] Adolphus Hanover 1st Duke Cambridge was born to [her husband] King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 35) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 29).
On 25 Apr 1776 [her daughter] Mary Hanover Duchess Gloucester and Edinburgh was born to [her husband] King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 37) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 31).
1777. Benjamin West (age 38). Portrait of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 32).
On 03 Nov 1777 [her daughter] Princess Sophia Hanover was born to [her husband] King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 39) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 33).
On 23 Feb 1779 [her son] Prince Octavius Hanover was born to [her husband] King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 40) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 34).
On 22 Sep 1780 [her son] Prince Alfred Hanover was born to [her husband] King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 42) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 36).
On 20 Aug 1782 [her son] Prince Alfred Hanover (age 1) died.
On 03 May 1783 [her son] Prince Octavius Hanover (age 4) died.
On 07 Aug 1783 [her daughter] Princess Amelia Hanover was born to [her husband] King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 45) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 39).
On 15 Dec 1785 [her son] King George IV of Great Britain and Ireland (age 23) and [her daughter-in-law] Maria Anne Smythe aka "Mrs Fitzherbert" (age 29) were married. The marriage was invalid under English civil law because his father had not given his consent. Her uncle Henry Errington and her brother John Smythe were witnesses. The ceremony was performed by one of the prince's Chaplains in Ordinary, the Reverend Robert Burt, whose debts of £500 were paid by the prince to release him from Fleet Prison [Map]. He the son of King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 47) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 41).
In 1790 George Harcourt 2nd Earl Harcourt (age 53) was appointed Master of the Horse to Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 45) which position he held until his death in 1809.
On 29 Sep 1791 [her son] Prince Frederick Hanover Duke York of York (age 28) and [her daughter-in-law] Frederica Charlotte Hohenzollern (age 24) were married at Charlottenburg, Berlin. She the daughter of Frederick William II King Prussia (age 47) and Crown Princess Elisabeth Christine of Prussia (age 44). He the son of King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 53) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 47). They were third cousins. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King George I of Great Britain and Ireland.
On 04 Apr 1793 [her son] Prince Augustus Frederick Hanover 1st Duke Sussex (age 20) and [her daughter-in-law] Augusta Murray Duchess Sussex (age 25) were married at Rome, Italy in secret contrary to the Royal Marriages Act which required him to seek permission before marrying. She the daughter of John Murray 4th Earl Dunmore (age 63) and Charlotte Stewart Countess Dunmore (age 63). He the son of King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 54) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 48).
In Aug 1794 [her son] Prince Augustus Frederick Hanover 1st Duke Sussex (age 21) and [her daughter-in-law] Augusta Murray Duchess Sussex (age 26) marriage annulled by the Court of Arches which deemed the marriage contrary to the Royal Marriages Act. The couple continued to live together until 1801 when they separated. She received a grant of £4000 each year and custody of their children.
On 08 Apr 1795 [her son] King George IV of Great Britain and Ireland (age 32) and [her daughter-in-law] Caroline of Brunswick Queen Consort England (age 26) were married at Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. He the son of King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 56) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 50). They were first cousins. She a great granddaughter of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland.
On 18 May 1797 [her son-in-law] King Frederick Wilhelm Karl Württemberg (age 42) and [her illegitimate daughter] Princess Charlotte Hanover (age 30) were married. She the illegitmate daughter of King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 58) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 52). They were third cousins. He a great x 2 grandson of King George I of Great Britain and Ireland.
In 1802 Charlotte Elizabeth Digby (age 23) was appointed Maid of Honour to Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 57).
On 02 Nov 1810 [her daughter] Princess Amelia Hanover (age 27) died.
On 23 Mar 1813 [her sister-in-law] Princess Augusta Charlotte Hanover (age 75) died.
In 1815 [her son] Ernest Augustus King Hanover (age 43) and [her daughter-in-law] Frederica Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort Hanover (age 36) were married. She by marriage Duchess Cumberland and Teviotdale. He the son of King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 76) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 70). They were half first cousins.
On 22 Jul 1816 [her son-in-law] William Frederick Hanover 2nd Duke Gloucester and Edinburgh (age 40) and [her daughter] Mary Hanover Duchess Gloucester and Edinburgh (age 40) were married at St James's Palace [Map]. She by marriage Duchess Gloucester and Edinburgh. She the daughter of King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 78) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 72). He the son of William Henry Hanover 1st Duke Gloucester and Edinburgh and Maria Walpole Duchess Gloucester and Edinburgh. They were first cousins. He a great grandson of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland. 
On 29 May 1818 [her son] Edward Augustus Hanover 1st Duke Kent and Strathearn (age 50) and [her daughter-in-law] Marie Luise Victoria Saxe Coburg Gotha Duchess Kent and Strathearn (age 31) were married at Ehrenburg Palace. She by marriage Duchess Kent and Strathearn. She the daughter of Francis Saxe Coburg Gotha I Duke Saxe Coburg Gotha and Augusta Reuss Duchess Saxe Coburg Gotha (age 61). He the son of King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 79) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 74). They were third cousin once removed.
On 01 Jun 1818 [her son] Adolphus Hanover 1st Duke Cambridge (age 44) and [her daughter-in-law] Princess Augusta Hesse-Kassel Duchess Cambridge (age 20) were married. She by marriage Duchess Cambridge. The difference in their ages was 23 years. He the son of King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 79) and Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 74). They were second cousins. She a great granddaughter of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland.
On 17 Nov 1818 Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England (age 74) died.
On 29 Jan 1820 [her former husband] King George III of Great Britain and Ireland (age 81) died at Windsor Castle [Map]. His reign the third longest after Victoria and Elizabeth II. His son [her son] King George IV of Great Britain and Ireland (age 57) succeeded IV King Great Britain and Ireland. [her daughter-in-law] Caroline of Brunswick Queen Consort England (age 51) by marriage Queen Consort England.
Adeline Horsey Recollections. After my dear mother's death I visited a great deal with my father (age 53), and one year we went for the shooting to Lord Huntingfield's place, Heveningham Hall, Suffolk. I slept in the bedroom once occupied by the famous Chevalier d'Éon, who had been a frequent guest at Heveningham, and about whom there were many stories told. It was said that the Chevalier was the one and only lover of cross-grained Queen Charlotte, and that her son, [her son] George IV, was the result of their intimacy, although his paternity was of course admitted by [her former husband] King George III. The animosity always displayed by the old Queen to her grand-daughter, Princess Charlotte, was supposed to arise from the fact that as heiress to the throne she innocently dispossessed the other Royal Dukes from the succession. It is certainly a fact that the Princess's untimely death in childbirth was attributed to foul play at the time, and when later the accoucheur Sir Richard Croft, committed suicide, all classes of society were loud in condemnation of the Queen and the Prince Regent. I do not vouch for the accuracy of Queen Charlotte's love affair. I only give the Heveningham gossip as I heard it.
Note A. D'Eon was undoubtedly one of the most picturesque and mysterious personages of the eighteenth century I was naturally interested in these somewhat scandalous stories.
The Chevalier died when he was eighty-three years of age, after a most extraordinary career. He was at one time aide-de-camp to the Comte de Broglie, and fought in the French army; but later on for some mysterious reason he discarded man's attire and passed as a woman for thirty-four years. Often when I went into my room I half expected to see a ghostly figure seated at the escritoire where the Chevalier wrote his secret cipher communications, and I wondered whether the brocade crowns and frills and furbelows that he wore as a woman had ever hung in the old wardrobe which I used.
My father and I also stayed with the Westmorlands at Apethorpe Hall; we visited the Earl (age 38) and Countess of Chichester (age 36) at Stanmer Park, and we were welcome guests at Cadlands, Silverlands, Chiswick House, West Park, and my uncle Lord Stradbroke's place, Henham Hall, which was afterwards burnt down.
I had visited Deene Park, Northamptonshire [Map] with my mother in 1842, but I must deal with my future home in the chapter devoted to Deene and its associations.
On 28 Jun 1853 Francis Charteris 8th Earl Wemyss Douglas 4th Earl March (age 81) died. His son Francis Charles Charteris 9th Earl Wemyss (age 56) succeeded 9th Earl Wemyss. Louisa Bingham Countess Wemyss (age 55) by marriage Countess Wemyss.
His obituary in the Gentleman's Magazine by Sylvanus Urban Volume XL reads as follows:
THE EARL OF WEMYSS AND MARCH June 28 At Gosford House East Lothian in his 81st year the Right Hon Francis Wemyss Charteris Wemyss sixth Earl of Wemyss and Lord Elcho and Methel 1633 Baron Wemyss of Elcho 1628 Earl of March Viscount of Peebles and Lord Niedpath, Lyne and Munard 1697 all dignities in the peerage of Scotland Baron Wemyss of Wemyss co Fife 1821 and Lord Lieutenant of Peebleshire.
He was born on the 15th April 1772 the only son of Francis Lord Elcho son and heir apparent of the fifth Earl by Miss Susan Tracy Keck one of the Maids of Honour to Queen Charlotte the second daughter of Anthony Tracy Keck esq of Great Tew co Oxford by Lady Susan Hamilton fourth daughter of James fourth Duke of Hamilton and first Duke of Brandon KG and KT.
In early life his lordship had a commission in the army and from 1793 to 1797 was aide de camp to his grand uncle Lord Adam Gordon Commander in chief of the forces in Scotland He quitted the army in 1797.
His father Lord Elcho died on the 20th June 1808 and his grandfather on the 24th August following whereupon he succeeded to the Earldom of Wemyss and its attendant titles. On the death of William fourth Duke of Queensberry in Dec 1810 he inherited the barony of Niedpath and the extensive property which had belonged to his Grace in the county of Peebles in pursuance of the terms of the marriage contract of the first Earl of March his Grace's grandfather. He also succeeded to the dignities of Earl of March, Viscount of Peebles and Lord Douglas of Niedpath, Lyne and Munard the patent of creation being to Lord William Douglas et heredes masculos de ejus corpore quibus deficientibus alios ejus hæredes masin culos et talliæ contentos in ejus infeofa mentis terrarum et dominii de Niedpath.
His Lordship was created a peer of the united kingdom by the title of Baron Wemyss at the Coronation of King George IV by patent dated 17 Jul 1821. He supported the Conservative party in parliament but took but little interest in politics.
He married May 31 1794 Margaret fourth daughter of Walter Campbell esq of Shawfield by his first wife Eleanor daughter of Robert Kerr of Newfield eldest son of Lord Charles Kerr second son of Robert first Marquess of Lothian. By that lady who died in 1850 he had issue two sons and nine daughters 1 Francis his successor (age 56) 2 Lady Eleanor married in 1820 to Walter Frederick Campbell of Woodhall co Lanark (age 55) esq eldest son of Colonel John Campbell by Lady Charlotte (age 78) daughter of John fifth Duke of Argyle and died in 1832 3 the Hon Walter died 1818 4 Susan who died in infancy 5 Lady Margaret married in 1824 to Lieut Colonel John Wildman and died in 1825 6 Lady Katharine married in 1824 to her cousin George Harry Lord Grey of Groby who died in 1835 and she died in 1844 leaving issue the present Earl of Stamford and Warrington (age 26) and Lady Margaret Milbanke 7 Lady Charlotte (age 58) married in 1825 to Andrew Fletcher esq of Salton Castle East Lothian 8 Lady Louisa Antoinetta (age 58) married in 1832 to William Forbes esq of Callendar co Stirling late MP for Stirlingshire 9 Lady Harriet (age 58) married in 1829 to Sir George Grant Suttie Bart 10 Lady Jane and 11 Lady Caroline. The present Earls (age 56) in 1796 married in 1817 Lady Louisa Bingham (age 55) fourth daughter of Richard 2d Earl Lucan by whom he has issue Francis Lord Elcho (age 34) four other sons and daughters.
Kings Wessex: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings England: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of Malcolm III King Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 16 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of Philip "Bold" III King France
King George IV of Great Britain and Ireland x 1
Ernest Augustus King Hanover x 1
Great x 4 Grandfather: Albrecht VII Duke Mecklenburg
Great x 3 Grandfather: Duke John Albert I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anna Hohenzollern Duchess Mecklenburg 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Duke John VII of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Albert "The Elder" Hohenzollern I Duke Prussia
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anna Sophia Hohenzollern 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothea Oldenburg
10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Duke Adolphus Frederick I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Frederick I of Denmark
Great x 3 Grandfather: Duke Adolph Oldenburg of Holstein-Gotorp
Great x 4 Grandmother: Sophie of Pomerania Queen Consort of Denmark and Sweden
Great x 2 Grandmother: Sophia Oldenburg 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Landgrave Philip I of Hesse 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Christine Hesse 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Christine of Saxony 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
GrandFather: Duke Adolphus Frederick II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ernest I Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Duke of Brunswick-Dannenberg 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Sophie of Mecklenburg
Great x 2 Grandfather: Julius Ernst Duke of Brunswick-Dannenberg 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Maria Katharina 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Father: Charles Louis Frederick Duke of Mecklenburg 14 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England