Caroline Matilda of Great Britain was a Queen of Denmark and Norway from 1766 to 1772 by marriage to King Christian VII. The youngest and posthumous daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales, by Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Caroline Matilda was raised in a secluded family atmosphere away from the royal court.

When was Caroline Mathilde exiled?

On 28 May 1772, Caroline Matilda was deported on board a British frigate. George III, dismayed at her behaviour, did not receive her at the English court as he thought his sister's conduct had hastened their mother's recent death but sent her to Celle, where she resided at Celle Castle in Hanover.

What happened Caroline Mathilde?

Caroline Matilda died suddenly of scarlet fever on 10 May 1775. On her deathbed, she wrote a letter to her brother in which she proclaimed her innocence. She was buried in the crypt of the Stadtkirche St. Marien near her paternal great-grandmother Sophia Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg, who was also divorced and exiled.