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Queen Charlotte was a patroness of the arts, known to Johann Christian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, among others Charlotte is named after the queen Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the wife of King George III of the UK. It is also the home of Queens College, established in 1857.

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