The first PEOPLE'S PRINCESS

Nearly 200 years before Diana, the press obsessed over the life and untimely death of another popular royal

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Back in 1817, the death of a young Princess of Wales prompted scenes of tears and mass mourning that would be repeated outside  Kensington Palace 180 years later.

Princess Charlotte Augusta was the Royal Family’s future hope, a woman with a common touch loved by many and followed obsessively by the newspapers of the day. Her death, at the age of 21, sparked a succession crisis that was only settled by the birth of her baby cousin, Victoria.