Also known as:
Juliane Henriette Ulrike
Anna Feodorovna of Russia.
Her lovers were:
Also known as Rodolphe-Abraham de Schiferli.
Natural Offspring:
1. Eduard Edgar Schmidt-Lowe (1808-?)
2. Louise HIlda Agnes d'Aubert (1812-?)
"Of the girls, Juliane Henriette Ulrike (better known as Anna Feodorovna) had the most misfortune. Catherine the Great chose her as the wife for her grandson, Grand Duke Constantine. He was known to be cruel, violent and as the author of We Two puts it, he was a strong contender to being 'the Caligula of his generation'. Juliane was pretty, kind, energetic, quick-witted and no fool; she left the marriage after three years of misery, only eighteen years old. She refused any reconciliation with her husband. She is known to have had two illegitimate children after her separation from Constantine, Eduard Edgar and Louise Hilda Agnes."(Baby Names from My Yesteryears)
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| Luise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha @Wikipedia |
Herzogin von Sachsen-Gotha-Coburg
(1800-1831)
Also known as:
Louise of Saxe-Gotha
Louise's personal & family background.
"Duke Ernst had finally married in 1817. The bride was a relative, 16-year-old Louise of Saxe-Gotha. It was a marriage for dynastic purposes. She was th eonly child of Prince Augustus, the reigning Duke of Gotha-Altenburg. Her father's younger brother, Friedrich, was a childless homesexual, which made her the ultimate heir to Gotha-Altenburg. Louise, whose mother had died when she was but twwo weeks old, was a small, vivacious and intelligent girl. . . ." (A Throne in Brussels: 19)
Physical appearance & personal qualities.
" . . . 'With long thick chestnut hair, and large blue eyes, though severely cross-eyed,' one of her nieces wrote, 'but when she smiles and talks, one assumes it to be a freshness in her expression, which suits her rather sell.' Because of her pleasant character, Louise was dearly loved by the people of Coburg. . . ." (A Throne in Brussels: 20)
An unhappy marriage --- and its aftermath.
" . . . But the marriage was an unhappy one, owing to Ernst's continuing extramarital affairs. In the very year of his marriage, Ernst became the father of an illegitimate daughter by his 19-year-old Parisian mistress Sophie Fermepin. His reputation was further harmed by the publication, in 1823, of the saucy memoirs of la Belle Grecque, his former mistress Pauline Panam, the mother of another of his many bastards. Out of revenge or out of loneliness, Louise soon started to take lovers of her own." (A Throne in Brussels: 20)
"Duke Ernst, a promiscuous as well as a sanctimonious hypocrite and highly suspicious pf his wife, began to hate her. After Louise's father died, he and his mother Augusta started scheming to rid themselves of her. On 29 August 1824, Ernst expelled Louise from Coburg, while Augusta confiscated her jewellery. The people of Coburg immediately went after their beloved Duchess, stopped her carriage, stormed the Ehrenburd Palace, forced the Duke to take her back. Ernst appealed to the Austrian Chancellor Metternich for help, but Metternich refused to send Austrian troops to settle a marital dispute. Nevertheless, on 2 September 'at the stroke of midnight,' so as to avoid popular demonstrations, Louise left Coburg for Sankt-Wendel, the distant Coburg exclave near the Franco-German border. 'There nobody will see or hear anything from her, and she will soon be forgotten,' Augusta reckoned." (A Throne in Brussels: 21)
Her lovers were:
1) Alexander von Hanstein, Graf von Pölzig und Beiersdorf (1804-1884)
Lover in 1824.
" . . . Luise, the Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg's daughter, divorced his father, Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, to marry her lover, Alexander, Count Von (sic) Pölzig-Beiersdorf. So nefarious was her reputation, that rumour had it that Albert's real father was a Jewish chamberlain." (Carleton: 132)
Reference.
[Ref1:Madame Gilflurt]
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