ABSTRACT
Eyewitness to the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, and ghostwriter of J. Booth’s best-selling account of the battle, published in 1815. According to Elizabeth Longford (1969):
Among the wise virgins to reach Antwerp before the ‘tumult, terror and misery’ of a refugee avalanche, was Miss Charlotte Waldie. She arrived with the first crash of the thunder-storm and had to listen at midnight to a sinister hammering in the hotel room next door. The nails were being driven into the Duke of Brunswick’s coffin.
