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E-book Queen victoria

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On November 6, 1817, died the Princess Charlotte, only child of the Prince
Regent, and heir to the crown of England. Her short life had hardly been a
happy one. By nature impulsive, capricious, and vehement, she had always
longed for liberty; and she had never possessed it. She had been brought up
among violent family quarrels, had been early separated from her disreputable
and eccentric mother, and handed over to the care of her disreputable and
selfish father. When she was seventeen, he decided to marry her off to the
Prince of Orange; she, at first, acquiesced; but, suddenly falling in love
with Prince Augustus of Prussia, she determined to break off the engagement.
This was not her first love affair, for she had previously carried on a
clandestine correspondence with a Captain Hess. Prince Augustus was already
married, morganatically, but she did not know it, and he did not tell her.
While she was spinning out the negotiations with the Prince of Orange, the
allied sovereign--it was June, 1814--arrived in London to celebrate their
victory. Among them, in the suite of the Emperor of Russia, was the young and
handsome Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. He made several attempts to attract
the notice of the Princess, but she, with her heart elsewhere, paid very
little attention. Next month the Prince Regent, discovering that his daughter
was having secret meetings with Prince Augustus, suddenly appeared upon the
scene and, after dismissing her household, sentenced her to a strict seclusion
in Windsor Park. "God Almighty grant me patience!" she exclaimed, falling on her knees in an agony of agitation: then she jumped up, ran down the
backstairs and out into the street, hailed a passing cab, and drove to her
mother's house in Bayswater.

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