The Gilded Cage (LIN)

King George III could not bear to part with his daughters when they reached marriageable age. The Princess Royal escaped the paternal stranglehold at the age of thirty-one, when she married the Duke of Wurtemberg. Her sisters were not so fortunate, and desperation drove them to form unsuitable attachments. The young Princess Charlotte, only child of George, Prince of Wales, made fun of her 'maiden' aunts, until she too became the victim of an eccentric father.