The buy of the needle
Shown here is the central medallion of a patchwork and appliqué quilt believed to have been produced by some patriotic sewer to mark the 1815 marriage of Princess Charlotte, the Prince Regent’s daughter, to Prince Leopold of Saxe- Coburg-Gotha.
Charlotte’s death in childbirth in 1817 was to bring a national outpouring of grief, but the quilt…