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- She chose Montagu House in Blackheath, next to what is now Ranger’s House and close to Greenwich Park. Her daughter, Princess Charlotte, was allowed to visit. Caroline’s mother, the Duchess of Brunswick, later moved into Ranger’s House (then named Brunswick House) next door to be close to her daughter.
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She was Princess of Wales from 1795 to 1820. The daughter of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, and Princess Augusta of Great Britain, Caroline was engaged in 1794 to her cousin George, Prince of Wales, whom she had never met. He was already illegally married to Maria Fitzherbert.
They separated after the birth of their only child Princess Charlotte (1796–1817) and Caroline spent much of her time in Italy. When George III died, she became nominally Queen of the United Kingdom and Hanover, and quickly returned to England to assert her rights and position.
She danced at a ball in Geneva naked to the waist, and in Naples she became the mistress of King Joachim, Napoleon’s brother-in-law. In January 1820 King George III died and Prinny became King George IV and so Caroline became Queen.
When her husband became King George IV she returned to England to claim her position as queen. George banned her from attending his coronation in July 1821. Humiliated and unwanted, she died within three weeks, never having actually been crowned.
When George became king in 1820, Caroline returned to England to claim her place as queen. Her cause was taken up by George's not inconsiderable number of enemies and she won a good deal of popular support.
In 1814, Caroline left England with her adopted children to escape the persecutions of the king and his friends and traveled on the Continent, living principally in Italy.
Princess Charlotte of Wales was the only daughter of George IV, then Prince of Wales and his first cousin, Caroline of Brunswick. She was born at the Prince George's residence of Carlton House in London, on 7 January 1796.
