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| Caroline Matilda of Great Britain Queen of Denmark |
Queen of Denmark
(1751-1775)
(1751-1775)
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Johann Friedrich Struensee |
Her lover was:
Johann Friedrich Struensee (1737-1772)
Lover by 1770.
Danish-German physician, administrator & political philosopher.
First encounter.
" . . . King Christian, in 1771, fell under the influence of Count Johann Friedrich Struensee, a clever court doctor of insinuating charm who became the young Queen Matilda's lover and virtual ruler of the Kingdom. . . ." (Saint Croix 1770-1776: The First Salute to the Stars & Stripes: 27)
Natural offspring.
" . . . When the Queen gave birth to a daughter in the summer of 1771, the baby was so widely believed to be Struensee's. . . Since it is an axiom of the court that a child of a Queen cannot be illegitimate, Queen Matilda's daughter with Struensee married into the House of Schleswig-Holstein and her descendant, Augusta Victoria, married William II to become the Empress of Prussia." (Saint Croix 1770-1776: The First Salute to the Stars & Stripes: 27)
Affair's end & aftermath.
" . . . In the spring of 1772 Queen Matilda was imprisoned by her husband in Hamlet's Kronburg Castle in Elsinore for her scandalous behavior. Her lover was condemned first to lose his right hand and then be beheaded; afterward, his body was drawn and quartered and his head displayed on a stake. Over fifty thousand Countrymen attended the spectacle. Such cruel and severe punishment was not uncommon for the time. The 'Struensee Affair' shook St. Croix and all of Europe. George III demanded his sister be set at liberty forthwith and threatened the bombardment of Copenhagen. The Danish Court ceded to the British lion's roar. Matilda was sent off in exile to Celle, a small town on the banks of the Aller in her brother's Hanoverian electorate, never to see her children again. . . ." (Saint Croix 1770-1776: 27)
PRINCESSES OF DENMARK.
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| Thyra of Denmark |
(1853-1933)
Wife of: Ernst August of Hannover, Crown Prince of Hanover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, mar 1878
Her lover was:
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Vilhelm Frimann Marcher |
Vilhem Frimann Marcher (1839-1878)
Lover in 1871
"Otherwise it might have been seen as very romantic that the young princess fell in love with lieutenant of the cavalry, Vilhelm Frimann Marcher, that they forgot the otherwise very prominent class differences and had a love affair. When the child was born on the 8 November 1871 the princess was only 18 years old so she was almost a child herself. To avoid a major scandal - princesses are not expected to get pregnant by attractive commoners, especially not when unmarried - one of Thyra's brothers, the King of Greece, George I, suggested that she had her baby in Athens, pretending that she was ill with jaundice and traveled because of her health." (Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/3750657"
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