Block 34: Queen Charlotte’s Crown by Georgann Eglinski for the Princess of Wales
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Wales (1796 –1817)
Charlotte Augusta was born nine months after the ill-fated honeymoon of her parents Prince George (see block 27) and Princess Caroline (block 30).
Princess Charlotte in 1806
In Jane Austen’s England the Princess of Wales was second in line to the throne after her father who became King George IV. The predominant emotional climate in Charlotte's childhood was her self-absorbed parents’ mutual contempt, so she led a lonely life.
When the Princess was about 16 her Uncle, the Duke of York, recommended she read Sense & Sensibility. Charlotte wrote a friend she had heard much about the novel and after she read it identified with Marianne’s sensibility and ‘imprudence.”
‘Sence and Sencibility’ I have just finished reading; it certainly is interesting, & you feel quite one of the company. I think Maryanne & me are very like in disposition, that certainly I am not so good, the same imprudence, &c, however remain very like. I must say it interested me much.’ Letter from Princess Charlotte January, 1812.


Queen Charlotte’s Crown by Becky Brown
As heir to the British throne the Princess found an acceptable mate in German royalty.

The brown frame reads:"Princess Charlotte of Wales Married to Leopold Prince of Saxe-Cobourg May 2, 1816"
Patchwork sold at Christies framing the Princess Charlotte panel
Another English frame quilt with the royal wedding panel.
Collection of the New England Quilt Museum
See the quilt here:
“This piece of Patchwork was finished two days previous to the Death of H.R.H. the Princess Charlotte…”Had Charlotte survived her father she'd have become Queen Charlotte when he died in 1830.
Queen Charlotte’s Crown by Becky Brown
The quilt pattern Queen Charlotte's Crown was given the name by Ruth Finley in her 1929 book. The block, which shows a crown and one reflected below it, can symbolize the "might-have-been" Charlottian Era we'd look back upon, rather than the Victorian Era led by Charlotte's cousin Alexandrina Victoria, who was born about 18 months after Charlotte’s death.
D - Cut 4 squares 3-1/4”.

Cut each in half diagonally to make 2 triangles. You need 8 of the smallest triangles.
E – Cut 2 rectangles 8” x 2-1/4”. You can trim the ends at 45-degree angles now or wait to trim them until you have stitched them to piece C.
Soon after the Princess’s death her letters were published in 1822. You can read Royal correspondence or, Letters between her late Royal Highness…and her Royal Mother at Google Books:
http://books.google.com/books?id=SIJUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
A more comprehensive edition edited by Arthur Aspinall was published in 1949, Letters of the Princess Charlotte, 1811-1817
D - Cut 4 squares 3-1/4”.

Cut each in half diagonally to make 2 triangles. You need 8 of the smallest triangles.
E – Cut 2 rectangles 8” x 2-1/4”. You can trim the ends at 45-degree angles now or wait to trim them until you have stitched them to piece C.
Sewing:
Queen Charlotte’s Crown by Bettina Havig
http://books.google.com/books?id=SIJUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
A more comprehensive edition edited by Arthur Aspinall was published in 1949, Letters of the Princess Charlotte, 1811-1817
Mourning jewelry for the Princess featuring an eye portrait
(quite the rage at the time) and some of her hair.
See more Princess Charlotte mourning jewelry at the royal
blog:
http://britishroyalblog.blogspot.com/2013/11/thursdays-royal-jewellery-princess.html
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