Princess Charlotte of Belgium (1840
Guglielmo Faijas miniature is based on a miniature by Sir William Ross dating from 1857, the year of the Princesss marriage, and showing her wearing a white dress trimmed with blue spring gentians, and a matching circlet of flowers in her hair. Rosss miniature was painted for the princesss father, Leopold I, King of the Belgians, and impressed Queen Victoria deeply.  How lovely Rosss miniature of Charlotte is she wrote to her uncle Leopold on 10 February 1857. I shall venture to retain it a little longer...
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