Excerpt from Victoria: The Woman The relations between the Prince Regent and his unfortunate wife and cousin, Caroline of Brunswick, were the scandal of europe: it was impossible that they should ever live together again. After the Prince Regent the Duke of York was next heir; he had married' in 1791 the Princess Royal of Prussia, but the union was childless, and therefore the third son, the Duke of Clarence, the fourth son, the Duke of Kent, and the fifth son, the Duke of Cumberland, stood next in the order of succession. The two former were unmarried, and the country saw with alarm the possibility of the sovereignty passing from brother to brother in the order of their birth, and ultimately devolving upon the hated Duke of Cumberland, who had married the Princess Frederica of mecklenburg-strelitz, the sister of the patriotic Queen Louise of Prus sia. This princess had been divorced from her first husband, the Prince of Solms Braunfels, and possessed such an unhappy reputation that Queen Charlotte declined to receive her. The wife would have been as little acceptable to the English people as queen, as the husband would have been as king. 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.