Charlotte, Princess of Sweden
Born: 1830
Daughter of: Oscar I (1799-1859) & Josephine of Leuchtenberg (1807-1876)
Died: 1889
Charlotte of Prussia, Princess of Saxe-Meiningen
Born: 1831
Daughter of: Albrecht (1809-1872) & Marianne of the Netherlands (1810-1883)
Married: George (1826-1914)
Children: Bernhard, George, Maria, a son
Died in childbirth: 1855
Charlotte (‘Carlotta’) of Belgium, Empress of Mexico
Born: 7 June 1840, Laeken
Daughter of: Leopold (1790-1865) & Louise of Orleans (1812-1850)
Married: Maximilian of Austria (1832-1867 – shot by revolutionaries in Mexico, after which Charlotte lost her sanity).
Died (confined): 19 January 1927, Heise
"She who was so quiet and self-possessed, so calm and serious and yet of cheerful disposition I cannot understand how such a thing could happen. I love her so much…Dear Charlotte, whom I have never seen agitated, who indeed at times often appeared phlegmatic and inanimate, whose reason and caution was always above her years, what she must have suffered, what she must have gone through to come to that!" (Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia)
"It is necessary at Laeken to shut all the doors and exercise a close watch over her. My poor sister imagines that Max is not dead and that he is kept shut up in England; she writes to him without ceasing and has sent him some presents…"(Leopold of Belgium, her brother).
"She has refused to get up except at night; and she fancies poor Max was not dead but only said so to enable him to marry again." (Queen Victoria)
Charlotte (‘Ditta’) of Prussia, Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen
Born: 14 July 1860, Potsdam
Daughter of: Frederick (1831-1888) & Victoria of Great Britain (1840-1901)
Married: Bernhard (1851-1928)
Children: Feodora
Died: 1 October 1919, Baden Baden. She probably suffered from porphyria.
“..so very dull and backward.” (Crown Princess Victoria – her mother!)
“…the great love of amusement [is] much to be regretted and then I blame her husband very much. If he allows it what can you say?” Queen Victoria
Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe, Queen of Wurttemberg
Born: 10 October 1864, Ratiboritz
Daughter of: William & Bathildis of Anhalt
Married: William II (1848-1921)
Died: 16 July 1946
"She is a good honest soul tho’ rather too brusque, she seems to get on well with all the members of the Wűrttemberg family which shows great tact." (Queen Mary of Great Britain)
“Too jolly and off-hand for a Queen and so ugly besides.” (Augusta of Mecklenburg Strelitz)
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Princess Reuss of Kostritz
Born: 7 November 1868, Berlin
Daughter of: William (1827-1879) & Alexandrine of Prussia (1842-1906)
Married: 1) Henry XVIII (1847-1911)
2) Robert Schmidt
Died: 20 December 1944
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
Born: 23 January 1896
Daughter of: William of Nassau & Marianne of Portugal
Married: Felix of Bourbon Parma (1893-1970)
Abdicated: 1964
Died: 9 July 1985
Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg, Princess of Prussia
Born: 1899
Daughter of: Ernst II (1871-1955) & Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe (1875-1971)
Married: Sigismund (1896-1978)
Died: 1989
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