In late 1769, she and the Prince of Wales were once again displayed, this time to the public in a "junior drawing room" in St James's Palace. This did not stop her parents from continuing to show her off. She was not a naturally musical child and later abhorred such displays of children, declaring that they made children vain and self-important. When she was almost three years old, she took part in her first tableau dressed like Columbine, where she danced with her seven-year-old brother George, Prince of Wales. Her early childhood, however, was not only focused on scholarly pursuits. She was taught to recite little verses and stories, and as a result had an almost uncanny ability to recall detail for the rest of her life. Her memory was another of her early subjects.
Since French was the official language in every European court, the little Princess was given a Frenchwoman to be her tutor, in order that she should have no accent. As the eldest daughter of the monarch, Charlotte was assumed to be destined for an important marriage on the continent, and her education was considered to be of the utmost importance, beginning when she was only eighteen months old.
Like all of her siblings, Charlotte was inoculated, in her case, in December 1768 along with her brother William. After the birth of three sons in a row, her parents were delighted to have a Princess in the nursery. Ĭharlotte was officially designated as Princess Royal on 22 June 1789. The Duke of Portland, Lord Chamberlain, and the Dowager Countess of Effingham, stood proxy for the King and Queen of Denmark. She was christened on 27 October 1766 at St James's Palace by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Secker, and her godparents were her paternal aunts Caroline Matilda and Louisa and Caroline Matilda's husband King Christian VII of Denmark. Princess Charlotte was born on 29 September 1766 at Buckingham House, London, to British monarch, King George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
The infant Princess Royal with her mother, Queen Charlotte.
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