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QUEEN VICTORIA
CHAPTER I
ANTECEDENTS
I
ON November 6, 1817, died the Princess Charlotte,
of England. Her short life had hardly been a happy
only child of the Prince Regent, and heir to the crown
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, acqiesced : but,
suddenly falling in love with Prince Augustus of Prussia,
she determined to break oft 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, mor-
ganatically, but she did not know it, and he did not
tell her. While she was spinning out the negotia-
tions with the Prince of Orange, the allied sovereigns
it was June, 1814-arrived in London to celebrate
their victory.
Among them, in the suite of the