Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Taylor was a British Army officer who served as the first Private Secretary to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, serving George III, George IV, and William IV.
Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence, c. 1800
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland as the wife of King George III from their marriage on 8 September 1761 until her death in 1818. The Acts of Union 1800 unified
Herbert Taylor (British Army officer)
…Guards, in which he became a brevet colonel in 1810. In 1805 he became private secretary to King George III, and then, from 1811 private secretary to Queen Charlotte, the queen consort. He retained that office until 1818. Taylor commanded a brigade at Antwerp 1813–1814, and was sent on a diplomatic mission to…
Portrait of Queen Charlotte by Thomas Gainsborough, 1781
Charlotte's birthplace in Mirow
Charlotte with a servant by Johann Georg Ziesenis, c. 1761
Queen Charlotte with her Two Eldest Sons, Johan Zoffany, 1765