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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Loved both shows but I don't get the (fictional) trajectory of Charlotte.  How does she go from a loving, very smart, young woman who cares about a lot of things and isn't taken up with being royal to a distant/neglectful mother who is pretty cold and snarky to everyone and doesn't seem to have interests beyond gossip / the ton[/quote]

Well, she was sent to a new country to marry the king who she didn’t know, he shielded himself from her because of his mental health issues, then she found out and did what she could to help, she had 15 children, 2 died under age 5, and she was in a position where it was pretty much impossible to know who to trust. Her firstborn child wasn’t “hers” as much as it was “the heir” and I expect all subsequent children (especially sons) were also treated as such by those around her. Apparently irl she was very close to her daughters and coddled/shielded them to a degree that probably made it difficult for her to let them go to marry. She was also probably afraid that some or all of her children would share their father’s affliction. 
I’d think all of that would be enough to make anyone pretty guarded about their life and maybe afraid to love/trust anyone. By the time her husband fully descended into madness she had seen a lot of horrible things and felt like the one person she really loved and trusted (her husband) was no longer even sometimes “there” for her. [/quote]

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