A great-grandchild of King George II, she was interested in             
          politics and the theatre. She also enjoyed music and had a beautiful       
          soprano voice. Her education had been conservative, and her dignified      
          and austere manner was lightened by her sense of humour. However, as       
          an old lady she was forbidding and terrifying, even though a               
          lady-in-waiting described her as "a Duck of a Duchess! I never met         
          with anyone with whom it is so easy to get on". Always punctual, she       
          was kind and gracious to those around her; and methodical, she ran an      
          ordered household.                                                         
             Frequently she attended the sittings of the House of Lords and          
          never missed reading her daily paper. With her husband they brought        
          their children up in Hannover, where they remained until 1837.             
             She disliked Prince Albert, the Prince Consort, because "he had         
          taken Queen Victoria" from her own son. And Prince Albert disliked the     
          Cambridges influence over his son, the Prince of Wales. However, she       
          was well pleased with the marriage of the Prince of Wales to Princess      
          Alexandra of Denmark, as Alexandra was her own great-niece.                
             It was also the Prince of Wales who was instrumental in bringing        
          the Duke of Teck to England, who subsequently married her youngest         
          daughter, "Fat Mary".                                                      
             Toward the end of 1888 she became ill and died on 6 April 1889 aged     
          ninety-two. Queen Victoria attended her funeral, the only one she did      
          attend until that of her son, Prince Leopold. 
 

Source: Leo van de Pas