This is a book about the life of Queen Victoria. It starts with a double wedding in Kew Palace.
Kew Palace is a British royal palace within the grounds of Kew Gardens on the banks of the River Thames.
The double wedding was of William, Duke of Clarence to Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meininge, and Edward, Duke of Kent, to Princess Victoire of Saxe-Coburg. This wedding took place on July 11, 1818. These two men were urged to marry when their nice Charlotte, the heir to the throne, died. Charlotte of Wales died on November 6, 1817, after a long and difficult childbirth where she gave birth to a stillborn son. She was the only legitimate granddaughter of King George III and would have become Queen of England had she lived.
William, Duke of Clarence, had never married and had a mistress, Mrs Jordan. Dorothea Jordan (née Bland; 22 November 1761 – 5 July 1816) was an Anglo-Irish actress, as well as a courtesan. She was the long-time partner of Prince William, Duke of Clarence, and the mother of 10 illegitimate children by him, all of whom took the surname FitzClarence.
Her wife to be was Princess Adelaide of Szxe-Meiningen. Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (13 August 1792 – 2 December 1849) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Queen of Hanover from 26 June 1830 to 20 June 1837 as the wife of King William IV.
Edward, Duke of Kent, also had mistresses before. One of his mistresses was Adelainde Dubus, who gave him an illegitimate daughter, but both mother and daughter died. Adelaide Dubus (1761-89) was a musician and actress. On the 15th of December 1789 Adelaide gave birth to the couple's child; a daughter named Adelaide Victoire Auguste Dubus. Adelaide died in childbirth.
He also took another lover, Therese-Bernardine Montegenet, known as Julie de Saint Laurent, and they were together for 28 years. Madame Alphonsine-Thérèse-Bernardine-Julie de Montgenêt de Saint-Laurent (30 September 1760 – 8 August 1830) was the wife of Baron de Fortisson, a colonel in the French service, and the mistress of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn. While in Geneva, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, was introduced to the de Fortissons. Soon afterward Julie and Edward became lovers.
He married Princess Victoire de Saxe-Coburg. Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld ( 17 August 1786 – 16 March 1861), later Duchess of Kent and Strathearn, was a German princess and the mother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
It was Victoire's second marriage. She had two previous children, Feodora and Charles. Her first marriage in 1803 was to the Prince of Leiningen, with whom she had a son, Charles, and a daughter, Feodora.
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