[…] she had committed the one sin that fashionable English society could not forgive: she’d become a bore. Caroline’s exasperated ladies-in-waiting were fed up hearing about how she’d been monstrously treated by the royal family, how much she hated them, and the various creative ways she’d like to see them die. (Sometimes after dinner, Caroline would spend the evening sticking pins into a wax doll made to look like the prince, before melting it over the fire. […])
In August 1814, Caroline left England, spending the next six years traveling. In Geneva that October, the now blowsy woman of 46 embarrassed herself and everyone around her by attending a ball in her honor “dressed en Vénus, or rather not dressed further than the waist.” The next year, an English aristocrat who met Caroline in Genoa described her as a “fat woman of fifty years of age, short, plump and high colored,” wearing a “pink bodice cut very low and a short white skirt which hardly came below her knees.” Another recalled her black wig and “girl’s white frock” cut “disgustingly low” to her stomach.
Source:
McRobbie, Linda Rodriguez. “Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, The Princess Who Didn’t Wash.” Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories From History-- Without the Fairy-Tale Endings. MJF Books, 2013. 217-18. Print.
Further Reading:
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