Princess Charlotte Augusta

RMR dedicated this work to Major-General Sir Adam Williamson , a career soldier who had very recently returned to England after a spell as governor-general of Jamaica. Writing it just after...

Her full title was Diary illustrative of the Times of George the Fourth, interspersed with original letters from the late Queen Caroline, and from various other distinguished persons. This time (though the book...

ECK 's desire that the princess (eventual heir to the throne) should learn to think for herself, allied her with the hope of the nation (perhaps especially strong among women) that the princess would prove...

ECK 's position as a lady companion to Princess Charlotte was complicated by the intention of the princess's father, the Regent , to keep his daughter as long as possible a child. While subject...

At the request of the Prince Regent (later George IV ), and the urgings of the princesses Mary , Elizabeth , and Sophia , ECK agreed to serve as one of the lady companions to...

ECK was dismissed from the service of Princess Charlotte , the month after the princess had broken off her engagement to William, Prince of Orange .

In the same year, 1803, she was suggested by Thomas Erskine as a suitable person to become governess to the seven-year-old Princess Charlotte , who stood second in line for the British throne. She wrote...

It brought HM flattering personal attention from the royal family. Early admirers supposed it to have been written by a man. The Critical, reviewing it on this basis, wished it had looked at...

ECK remained in London after her dismissal in order to be able to contradict any untrue reports that might surface in the press. It was during this time that she agreed to pass letters between...

After her return she paid several visits to Princess Charlotte , who was by now married to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg . These visits were brief, however, and Prince Leopold made it clear that he...

CG 's relation by marriage the Countess of Arran had been governess to Princess Charlotte and was described as a leader of fashion.

ABJ 's father, Denis Murphy , was appointed Painter in Enamel to Princess Charlotte (daughter of the future George IV and Queen Caroline) and provided with an apartment in Windsor Castle.

AJV 's second published volume, The Pleasures of Human Life, a poem titled in a form which had become something of a cliché, bore her name and was dedicated to Princess Charlotte .

The prose dedication to Princess Charlotte emphasised EG 's worthiness by mentioning her father and her famous (and noble) aunts. She added a further dedicatory poem to the princess, entitled The Fable of the Trees...

The full title was Poems and Translations from the Minor Greek Poets and Others: written chiefly between the ages of ten and sixteen. The volume was supplied with two title-pages, one conventionally printed and...