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Princess Charlotte

woman seated in a purple dress with white sleeves and bodice, looking over her left shoulder, brown hair in high curls. There is a picture, mostly clouds, in the left background.

Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales

by George Dawe
oil on canvas, 1817
NPG 51

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (1796 – 1817) was the only child of George, Prince of Wales (later to become King George IV) and Caroline of Brunswick. Had she outlived both her grandfather King George III and her father, she would have become Queen of the United Kingdom, but she died following childbirth at the age of 21.