Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - Marie Charlotte Amélie Augustine Victoire Clémentine Léopoldine o Saxe-Coburg me Gotha, e mōhiotia ana i raro i te ingoa "Charlotte", ko te tamahine a Kingi Kingi Leopold I o Belgium me Louise o Orléans. Ko tana ingoa tuatahi he mihi ki te Princess Charlotte o Wales, te wahine tuatahi a tona papa. Ko ia te tamaiti tuawha me te whakamutunga me te tamahine anake o te tokorua kingi Belgian, i muri i a Louis-Philippe (i mate i raro iho i te kotahi tau i te 1834), Leopold (i whanau i te 1835) me Philippe (i whanau i te 1837). He uaua rawa te hapūtanga whakamutunga a Kuini Louise i reira nga mataku o te kohuru i te Paenga-whawha, engari i te 7 o Hune 1840 i te 1 o te ata, i whanau a Charlotte i te Whare o Laeken. I te tuatahi i pouri i te whanautanga o te tamahine, kaore i te rangatira i Belgium i taua wa, ka miharo a Kingi Leopold I ki tana tamahine, i riro i tana tamaiti tino pai. Na tona whaea, ko Charlotte he mokopuna o Louis Philippe I me Maria Amalia o nga Sicilies e rua, Kingi me Kuini o nga French, na tona papa, he whanaunga matua ia na Kuini Wikitoria o te United Kingdom o Great Britain me Ireland; he mihi ki tenei whanaungatanga, me tua atu ki nga nohoanga auau i te taone nui o Ostend i te raumati, ka roa te hararei a Charlotte me ona tupuna whaea i nga whare rangatira o Parani me tana whanaunga i Windsor Castle. I tata ia ki tana kuia whaea, Kuini Maria Amalia, a ka tuhi tonu te tokorua; i muri i te French Revolution o 1848
i whakakahoretia ai ōna mātua tupuna, ā, i whakaraua ki Ingarangi, mō ētahi wiki o te tau, ka noho a Charlotte ki Claremont me te whānau o tōna whaea i te whakaraunga.