Queen Charlotte, 1744-1818: a bilingual exhibit, 1996-1997.

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Queen Charlotte, 1744-1818: a bilingual exhibit, 1996-1997.

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Research material for Powell's exhibit includes 55 slides and 464 letters from Charlotte to her brother Grand Duke Charles II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. With the letters are corrrespondence of the Queen with other family members, documents relating to her marriage and her death, and some miscellaneous correspondence and documents. With the collection is a letter from Sheila de Bellaigue, Registrar, The Royal Archives, explaining that Grand Duke Charles' letters to Queen Charlotte were probably destroyed in 1820 by Sir Herbert Taylor, at the instruction of her daughters.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818

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Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (19 May 1744 – 17 November 1818) was Queen of Great Britain and Queen of Ireland as the wife of King George III. Charlotte was born into the royal family of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Charlotte was a patron of the arts and an amateur botanist who helped expand Kew Gardens. She introduced the Christmas tree to Britain, after decorating one for a Christmas party for children from Windsor in 1800. She was distressed by her husband's bouts of physical and mental illness,...

Charles, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 1741-1816,

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De Bellaigue, Sheila, 1945-

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Powell, Angelika Schmiegelow

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Slavic and East European Bibliographer, University of Virginia. From the description of On the origins of slavic cultures [manuscript] = Aux origines des cultures slaves : a selective bibliography 1967-1987, presented to the International Colloquium organized by the Universite de Paris, Sorbonne, France, and held at the Werner-Reimers Stiftung, Bad Homburg, West Germany, December 14-18, 1987, 1988. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647844375 From the description ...