Princess Charlotte of Prussia

Born at the Neues Palais in Potsdam on 24 July 1860, Charlotte was a difficult child with a nervous disposition and little interest in study. Her relationship with her demanding mother, Victoria, Princess Royal, was strained from the start. At seventeen she married Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Meiningen in 1878, desperate to escape parental control, but her weak-willed husband had no effect on her eccentric personality. She spent her years enjoying Berlin society, frequently leaving her only child, Princess Feodora, with family members — the two shared the same strained dynamic Charlotte had known…