Charlotte, Königin von Großbritannien
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Image source
Wikimedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Charlotte_gainsborough.jpg
Basic data
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Sophie Charlotte, Prinzessin von Mecklenburg-Strelitz Birth Name
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May 19, 1744 in Mirow
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†November 17, 1818 in London
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Königin
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London, Neustrelitz
Iconography
_with_her_Two_Eldest_Sons_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg "Queen Charlotte with her Two Eldest Sons, Johan Zoffany, 1765 (Source: Wikimedia)")
![In 1767, Francis Cotes drew a pastel of Queen Charlotte with her eldest daughter, Charlotte, Princess Royal. Lady Mary Coke called the likeness "so like that it could not be mistaken for any other person".[20] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Charlotte1767Cotes.jpg "In 1767, Francis Cotes drew a pastel of Queen Charlotte with her eldest daughter, Charlotte, Princess Royal. Lady Mary Coke called the likeness \"so like that it could not be mistaken for any other person\".[20] (Source: Wikimedia)")
![Charlotte sat for Sir Thomas Lawrence in September 1789. His portrait of her was exhibited at the Royal Academy the following year. Reviewers thought it "a strong likeness".[49][e] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Queen_Charlotte_by_Sir_Thomas_Lawrence_1789.jpg "Charlotte sat for Sir Thomas Lawrence in September 1789. His portrait of her was exhibited at the Royal Academy the following year. Reviewers thought it \"a strong likeness\".[49][e] (Source: Wikimedia)")
_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4534916.jpg "Queen Charlotte's funerary hatchment on display at Kew Palace. The right is black and the left white because she was survived by her husband, King George III. (Source: Wikimedia)")
![One of three lines of descent between Charlotte, Margarita de Castro e Sousa, and Madragana. This portion of Charlotte's ancestry has often been used to justify claims that she was of African descent.[83] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Margarita_de_Castro_e_Souza_genealogy_and_descent.JPG "One of three lines of descent between Charlotte, Margarita de Castro e Sousa, and Madragana. This portion of Charlotte's ancestry has often been used to justify claims that she was of African descent.[83] (Source: Wikimedia)")
_-_Queen_Charlotte_(1744-1818)_-_RCIN_405308_-_Royal_Collection.jpg "Portrait of Queen Charlotte by Allan Ramsay, 1761 (Source: Wikimedia)")
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Biographical information from the WeGA
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- Research of the WeGA was without success so far
- It is a well known person where enough information is available online elsewhere, see e.g Wikipedia
