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"Caroline of Brunswick was the cousin of George, Prince of Wales and Prince Regent, and they were married in 1795 without having met until she arrived from Germany in England for the wedding in 1795. The match was a disaster, as they hated each other from the start. When he first saw his intended wife, he announced he was not well and asked for a glass of brandy, while she told her attendants that he did not look nearly as handsome as his portrait had suggested. Although he spent the first night of the honeymoon lying in the fireplace in a drunken stupor, they stayed together long enough for Caroline to conceive and give birth to a daughter, Charlotte, the following year.
Charlotte had an unhappy life, torn between two parents who were separated, hated each other. Her father tried to poison the child's mind against her mother, and the latter did likewise. Thanks largely to her sympathetic uncles, she grew up into a determined and level-headed princess, although her marriage to Prince Leopold of Coburg, happy as it was, would sadly prove all too short.
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John Van der Kiste, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Royalty bio
Yes
Period of greatest activity?
- 1800's
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- Prince/Nobleman/King
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- emotionally unstable
Biography of famous person?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- German
How sensitive is this person?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 2 ()
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
- Germany
Misc setting
- Fancy Mansion
Century:
- 19th century
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Book makes you feel?
- thoughtful
Writer's slant towards subject:
- neutral
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of set of events during life
Pictures/Illustrations?
- More 6-10 B&W
How much dialogue in bio?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 26-50% of book
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