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On This Day

Posted by Karen on March 14, 2025, 9:45 am

1816 - The engagement of Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, daughter of HM King George IV, to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, later known as Leopold I of Belgium, was announced. At least for a couple of years her life was a reasonably happy one. She adored her Leo. If not for her death and that of her still born son in 1818 we would have had a Queen Charlotte and not Victoria.

Re: On This Day

Posted by Candace on March 14, 2025, 12:45 pm, in reply to "On This Day"

If Charlotte had survived but perhaps not her child, you might would still have had a Victoria later....just not for as long as she actually reigned. Interesting the twists and turns of life.

Re: On This Day

Posted by Hollie24 on March 14, 2025, 12:50 pm, in reply to "On This Day"

If Charlotte had survived, and had borne surviving children, the UK and Europe would look very different today. So would much of the rest of the world. Leopold wouldn't have been chosen as King of the Belgians, so Belgium and Luxembourg would have been different. So would the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Parts of Africa wouldn't have become Leopold II's personal fortune-makers (and horror-makers as a result of his basically enslaving and brutalizing the population) since he wouldn't have existed. There would have been no Stephanie of Belgium for Rudolf of Austria to marry either, so he might have married someone else and had a son instead of a daughter. And so on.

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