How Queen Mary collected Queen Charlotte: an exhibition currently at the Queen's Gallery, London, celebrates the collecting and patronage of Queen Charlotte alongside that of her husband, George III. That this is possible at all is largely thanks to the diligence with which her possessions were recovered and restored by her great-grand-daughter Queen Mary.

Apollo | August 1, 2004| | Copyright

On 8 September 1761 the seventeen-year-old Princess Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz arrived in London after a stormy voyage. (1) That evening she was married with great ceremony to the King of England, a man she had never met and of whose language she was entirely ignorant. She wore a dress of silver tissue and a stomacher covering the whole centre part of her bodice, set with a number of very large diamonds, worth quite extravagant sums according to the Duchess of Northumberland. (2) At the coronation, fourteen days later, she was again laden with pearls and diamonds. ...

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