On the very first episode of the Broad Chronicles, we cover the would-be queen of the United Kingdom, Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales.

Charlotte was the only daughter of the Prince Regent, later George IV, and his estranged wife, Caroline of Brunswick. Born of her father's need for debt relief funds and the nation's need for an heir, Charlotte was a firecracker of a young woman who found herself constantly in the middle of her parents' bickering and the pawn in her father's political schemes. Ultimately, Charlotte would make a love match in Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, but her life was cut tragically short due to complications from childbirth.

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