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Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

1744–1818

Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a German princess who became queen of Great Britain and Ireland through her marriage to George III in 1761. Born at Mirow in 1744, she travelled to Britain as a seventeen-year-old bride and met George only shortly before their wedding. Their marriage produced fifteen children and for many years formed the centre of a comparatively domestic royal household, with Charlotte playing a major role in the upbringing, marriages and conduct of an unusually large royal family.

Charlotte had no formal political office, but her responsibilities expanded as George III experienced recurrent episodes of severe illness and as relations within the royal family became more difficult. She was an active patron of music, supported artists and musicians, collected books and developed a strong interest in botany and the gardens at Kew. During the Regency she remained a senior figure at court while her eldest son exercised royal authority. She died in 1818, after nearly six decades as queen consort.

In Julia Quinn’s Queen Charlotte, A young Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz arrives in Britain to marry George III, a king she has never met. Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz is treated fictionally in Laura Purcell’s God Save the King, Laura Purcell’s Queen of Bedlam, and Jean Plaidy’s Sweet Lass of Richmond Hill. In Deryn Lake’s Death in St James’s Palace, Queen Charlotte’s court provides the immediate setting when Sir John Fielding and John Rawlings attend St James’s Palace, bringing the investigation into the ceremonial and domestic world around the queen.

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (3 series)

John Rawlings in Order

by Deryn Lake 17 books 4.2(11,535)

The John Rawlings mysteries follow a young London apothecary whose trained eye for physical detail and talent for deduction repeatedly draw him into murder investigations. Working at first alongside Sir John Fielding, the blind Bow Street magistrate known as the “Blind Beak”, Rawlings moves through pleasure gardens, theatres,…

All books in this series

1. Death in the Dark Walk

First published 1994 · 4.3(3,082)

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2. Death at the Beggar’s Opera

First published 1995 · 4.3(816)

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3. Death at the Devil’s Tavern

First published 1996 · 4.2(697)

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4. Death on the Romney Marsh

First published 1998 · 4.2(589)

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5. Death in the Peerless Pool

First published 1999 · 4.2(496)

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6. Death at the Apothecaries’ Hall

First published 2000 · 4.4(706)

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7. Death in the West Wind

First published 2001 · 4.2(509)

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8. Death in St James’s Palace

First published 2002 · 4.1(562)

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9. Death in the Valley of Shadows

First published 2003 · 4.2(413)

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10. Death in the Setting Sun

First published 2004 · 4.1(512)

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11. Death and the Cornish Fiddler

First published 2006 · 4.2(440)

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12. Death in Hellfire

First published 2007 · 4.0(462)

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13. Death and the Black Pyramid

First published 2009 · 4.1(444)

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14. Death at the Wedding Feast

First published 2011 · 4.2(372)

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15. Death on the Rocks

First published 2014 · 4.2(311)

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16. Death at the Boston Tea Party

First published 2016 · 4.1(473)

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17. Death on the River Thames

First published 2022 · 4.3(651)

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Georgian Saga in Order

by Jean Plaidy 11 books 4.3(2,545)

The Georgian Saga follows the Hanoverian dynasty from George I and the divided household of George II to George III, the Regency and the accession of Victoria. The novels combine royal marriages, mistresses, succession disputes and parliamentary politics with the private tensions that shaped Britain’s eighteenth- and early…

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1. The Princess of Celle

4.1(341)

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2. Queen in Waiting

4.1(253)

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3. Caroline, the Queen

4.1(316)

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4. The Prince and the Quakeress

4.2(220)

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5. The Third George

4.2(217)

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6. Perdita’s Prince

4.1(209)

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7. Sweet Lass of Richmond Hill

4.1(207)

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8. Indiscretions of the Queen

4.2(193)

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9. The Regent’s Daughter

4.3(218)

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10. Goddess of the Green Room

4.1(169)

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11. Victoria in the Wings

4.3(202)

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Georgian Queens in Order

by Laura Purcell 2 books 4.0(523)

The Georgian Queens novels place royal women at the centre of Britain's Hanoverian monarchy. Queen of Bedlam follows Queen Charlotte and her daughters as George III's illness turns family life into a constitutional crisis. Mistress of the Court moves back to the Hanoverian accession, tracing Henrietta Howard and…