The nation did, too. To the popular imagination, Princess Charlotte represented a new day, a new era, a reversal of the high and irreverent carrying-on of the upper classes during the unsettling years of war, rumoured madness in their king, and even, perhaps, invasion of their own shores. Having lived only to the age of 21, the young Princess doesn't get a great deal of press anymore. Most have forgotten her. Her memoirs (not autobiographical) reveal a generous, loving girl with a great deal of intelligence, a whip of a temper, but with a propensity towards kindness and propriety that was heartily attractive. I find it little wonder that England of her day loved her so well. I wish we could have seen what "Queen Charlotte" would have been like on the throne.

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