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Caroline (1768–1821)| Wife of George IV. She married the Prince of Wales in 1795. The marriage was unhappy from the start. After the birth of a daughter, Charlotte, in 1796, a formal separation took place, and the princess went to live at Blackheath. Weary of continual persecution at the hands of her husband, she went abroad in 1814. When she became queen six years later, she returned to England. A bill to divorce her was introduced into the House of Lords but was not proceeded with. Popular feeling in the country was strongly on her side in the quarrels with her husband. She died a few days after George IV's coronation, from which she was forcibly excluded. |
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| Gerald Arbuthnot Farquhar, Butler Francis, Footman Lady Hunstanton Lady Caroline Pontefract Lady Stutfield Mrs. Cousin Caroline was a lady of very imposing height and circumference, but in spite of her size and her handsome trappings, there was something exposed and unsheltered in her expression, as if for many summers her thin red skin and hooked nose and reduplication of chins, so much resembling the profile of a cockatoo, had been bared to the weather; she was, indeed, a single lady; but she had, it was the habit to say, "made a life for herself," and was thus entitled to be heard with respect. I would gladly have sent my husband away to Caroline with all our goods, and have come after myself, but this was impracticable; he would never stir without me, being himself perfectly unacquainted with the country, and with the methods of settling there or anywhere else. |