The marriage of the Prince of Wales to Caroline of Brunswick was strewn with private skirmish and public scandal, yet it did bear a daughter - Princess Charlotte, heiress presumptive to the English throne. The Regent, still elegant, though moving swiftly into corpulent middle age; his wife Caroline, always determined to shock and eccentric almost to the point of lunacy; old George III rambling on into the mists of his madness; and stern Queen Charlotte at the head of her web of domestic spies...amidst them all sparkled Charlotte, lovable and enchanting daughter of the court, the Regent's daughter. Ever bewildered by her bizarre collection of royal relatives, Charlotte grew up honest, forthright and always sure of her destiny...