Charlotte of mecklenburg-strelitz biography of mahatma gandhi

Adeline Horsey Recollections. After my dear mother's death I visited a great deal with my father (age 53), and one year we went for the shooting to Lord Huntingfield's place, Heveningham Hall, Suffolk.

I slept in the bedroom once occupied by the famous Chevalier d'Éon, who had been a frequent guest at Heveningham, and about whom there were many stories told. It was said that the Chevalier was the one and only lover of cross-grained Queen Charlotte, and that her son, [her son] George IV, was the result of their intimacy, although his paternity was of course admitted by [her former husband] King George III.

The animosity always displayed by the old Queen to her grand-daughter, [her granddaughter] Princess Charlotte, was supposed to arise from the fact that as heiress to the throne she innocently dispossessed the other Royal Dukes from the succession.

It is certainly a fact that the Princess's untimely death in childbirth was attributed to foul play a