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When King George III suc­ceeded to the throne of Great Britain upon the death of his grand­fa­ther, George II, he was 22 years old and un­mar­ried. His mother and ad­vi­sors were eager to have him set­tled in mar­riage. The 17-year-old Princess Char­lotte of Meck­len­burg-Stre­litz ap­pealed to him as a prospec­tive con­sort partly be­cause she had...

Upon her wed­ding day, Char­lotte spoke no Eng­lish. How­ever, she quickly learned Eng­lish, al­beit speak­ing with a strong Ger­man ac­cent. One ob­server com­mented, "She is timid at first but talks a lot, when she is among peo­ple she knows." Less than a year after the mar­riage, on 12 Au­gust 1762, the Queen gave birth to her first child, Georg...

When the King had his first, tem­po­rary bout of men­tal ill­ness in 1765, Char­lotte's mother-in-law and Lord Bute kept her un­aware of the sit­u­a­tion. The Re­gency Bill of 1765 stated that if the King should be­come per­ma­nently un­able to rule, Char­lotte was to be­come re­gent. Her mother-in-law and Lord Bute had un­suc­cess­fully op­posed t...

King George III and Queen Char­lotte were music con­nois­seurs with Ger­man tastes, who gave spe­cial ho­n­our to Ger­man artists and com­posers. They were pas­sion­ate ad­mir­ers of the music of George Frid­eric Han­del. In April 1764, Wolf­gang Amadeus Mozart, then aged eight, ar­rived in Britain with his fam­ily as part of their grand tour of Eu...

The French Rev­o­lu­tion of 1789 prob­a­bly added to the strain that Char­lotte felt. Queen Char­lotte and Queen Marie An­toinette of France had main­tained a close re­la­tion­ship. Char­lotte was 11 years older than Marie An­toinette, yet they shared many in­ter­ests, such as their love of music and the arts, in which they both en­thu­si­as­ti­cal...

After the onset of his per­ma­nent mad­ness in 1811, George III was placed under the guardian­ship of his wife in ac­cor­dance with the Re­gency Bill of 1789. She could not bring her­self to visit him very often, due to his er­ratic be­hav­iour and oc­ca­sional vi­o­lent re­ac­tions. It is be­lieved she did not visit him again after June 1812. How­...

The Queen died in the pres­ence of her el­dest son, the Prince Re­gent, who was hold­ing her hand as she sat in an arm­chair at the fam­ily's coun­try re­treat, Dutch House in Sur­rey (now known as Kew Palace). She was buried at St George's Chapel, Wind­sor Cas­tle. Her hus­band died just over a year later. She is the sec­ond longest-serv­ing con­s...

Places named after her in­clude the Queen Char­lotte Is­lands (now known as Haida Gwaii) in British Co­lum­bia, Canada, and Queen Char­lotte City on Haida Gwaii; Queen Char­lotte Sound (not far from the Haida Gwaii Is­lands); Queen Char­lotte Chan­nel (near Van­cou­ver, Canada); Queen Char­lotte Bay in West Falk­land; Queen Char­lotte Sound, South ...

Titles and styles

1. 19 May 1744 – 8 September 1761: Her Serene HighnessPrincess Charlotte of Mecklenburg 2. 8 September 1761 – 17 November 1818: Her MajestyThe Queen

Arms

The Royal Coat of Arms of the United King­dom are im­paled with her fa­ther's arms as a Duke of Meck­len­burg-Stre­litz. The arms were: Quar­terly of six, 1st, Or, a buf­falo's head ca­bossed Sable, armed and ringed Ar­gent, crowned and langued Gules (Meck­len­burg); 2nd, Azure, a grif­fin seg­re­ant Or (Ro­s­tock); 3rd, Per fess, in chief Azure, a grif­fin seg­re­ant Or, and in the base Vert, a bor­dure Ar­gent (Prin­ci­pal­ity of Schw­erin); 4th, Gules, a cross patée Ar­gent crowned Or (Rat...