Monday, May 4, 2015

Rebellious ancestor: How Princess Charlotte has her name – Neue Zürcher Zeitung

The youngest offspring in the British royal family is Charlotte Elizabeth Diana hot. Why Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge have decided to name their child like that? Elizabeth and Diana, great-grandmother and grandmother died when the second and third first name, are clear. But Charlotte?



No Queen Mia

Of course, Royals have not the same freedom as other prominent parents who can register as the daughter about Chayenne, Davina or Shiloh the birth register. Even Emily, Isla Mia or how loud currently popular names for babies British would probably come hardly questioned. Instead, in the name of choice Windsors always the dynasty must be thought along. After all, is the little princess currently ranked fourth in the line of succession. If her older brother anything happen before he has offspring, they would one day head of state. And a queen Mia does not want you to the Kingdom but then expect.

The name of a member of the royal family must but not only sound worthy, always reference is thus made to a historical figure and is a bit also program. So who is the model for the small Charlotte?



A small rebel

With the access names Charlotte William and Kate around 200 years back in the history of the royal family. Two female figures are eligible as a reference. As is the one Charlotte Augusta of Wales. The only child of the Prince Regent and later King George IV. Had been immensely popular among the people. Had she not died at the age of 21 years, she would rather her cousin Victoria became Queen of England in 1837.

Charlotte had not easy in her short life. Her parents hated each other from the first moment of the arranged marriage. Her father then tried for years to separate the mother of his only child, but the rebellious Charlotte underwent repeatedly. Then the stern George wanted the woken and impulsive young woman to marry a man she refused vehemently. Finally, she sat by a love match with the German Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. The happiness lasted only a little more than a year. When she died in childbirth after a stillbirth in 1817, there was an outcry across the country. The collective grief over the loss of their future queen took trains like the death of the later Princess of Wales, Diana.



 The Queen Charlotte (1761-1818)
The Queen Charlotte (1761 but until 1818) (Portrait Allan Ramsay)

is ugly and sad also interesting life of grandmother of Princess , namely the Queen Charlotte, wife of George III as the. from 1761 to 1818 sat on the throne. She was a German princess, but also had ancestors in the Portuguese royal family. This led a historian in 2009 to the adventurous speculation, Charlotte had African blood and was England’s “Black Queen” was. It was considered very ugly, and you can actually discover mulattische in some portraits trains. The thesis could hardly be maintained in the result. More is occupied and in any event, as the very art-loving children and dear Queen suffered from the increasing psychosis of her husband, who had to be eventually replaced by his son as Prince Regent on the throne. Your recent years were considered unlucky, and she died at the age of 74 years shortly before her husband, who she so disappointed.

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