A Poem on the Death of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales and Saxe Cobourg (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from A Poem on the Death of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales and Saxe Cobourg The following Poem is supposed to be writ ten, and most of it was written, a short time after the event which occasioned it, took place. It is meant to be considered as a record in verse, Of the sentiments universally entertained respecting the character Of her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte Of Wales, and of the profound grief expressed at her death, by the whole British Nation. Its conclusion refers to the solemn acts of devotion performed by every class of His Majesty's subjects, on the day of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.













A Poem on the Death of Her Royal Highness, the Princess Charlotte of Wales and Saxe Cobourg


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Royal Mourning and Regency Culture


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This book examines the widespread response in British artistic media to the death in childbirth in 1817 of Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, daughter of the Prince Regent and heiress to the throne, showing how both in print materials like poetry and sermons and extra-literary artifacts like visual art, ceramics, metalwork, and textiles her life and death were invested with the qualities of myth even as her memorialists appropriated her experiences in the process of producing consumer commodities for an emerging mass audience.