Vicar of St Peters Church from 1829 to 1854, but present at this event in 1821 when his father was churchwarden. Was arranged to bypass London, but was forced through the city by roadblocks manned by rioters, two of whom died in the disturbances. Rumours circulated, but the cause was probably natural. She was not invited to the coronation of her husband George IV on 19 July 1821 but arrived anyway and was refused entry.Īfter this she declined medically and died on 7th August. Was dropped when it was considered she had sufficient supporters to prevent it passing the House of Commons.
In Parliament to dissolve the marriage and strip her of her titles was effectively a trial for adultery. When her husband became George IV in 1820, she returned to England, became a focus for those opposed to the King, and debate on a bill For some years she toured Europe openly in the the company of the Chamberlain to the Queen’s Household, Bertolomo Pergami. While George was acting as Prince Regent, ruling on behalf of his father King George III from 1811, Caroline was excluded from public life and agreed to leave the country in exchange for an annual allowance. The marriage was a disaster George was drunk at the wedding, his new bride was “fat, coarse, vulgar and unwashed”, and the couple separated very soon after, but did produce a child, Princess Charlotte, who was to die in childbirth in 1818. In 1795 she married her first cousin, George, Prince of Wales, as part of a deal to get Parliament to increase the Prince’s income. The body of Caroline of Brunswick remained in the building overnight on the way to Harwich and eventual burial in Brunswick Cathedral.
In 1821 a quite extraordinary event occurred in St Peters Church that involved one of the greatest political controversies of the age.