Frederick vi of denmark

Princess Louise Augusta of Denmark

Duchess consort of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg

Louise Augusta of Denmark and Norway

Portrait by Anton Graff, 1791

Tenure13 November 1794 – 14 June 1814
Born(1771-07-07)7 July 1771
Hirschholm Palace, Hørsholm, Denmark
Died13 January 1843(1843-01-13) (aged 71)
Augustenborg Palace, Augustenborg, Denmark
Burial

Sønderborg Castle

Spouse
IssueCaroline Amalie, Queen of Denmark
Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
Frederick, Prince of Noer
HouseOldenburg
FatherChristian VII of Denmark (officially)
Johann Friedrich Struensee (rumored)
MotherCaroline Matilda of Great Britain
ReligionLutheranism

Louise Augusta of Denmark and Norway (7 July 1771 – 13 January 1843) was the daughter of the Queen of Denmark-Norway, Caroline Matilda of Great Britain. Though officially regarded as the daughter of King Christian VII, it is widely accepted that her biological father was Johann Friedrich Struensee, the king's royal physician and de factoregent

On 7 July 1771, Queen Caroline Matilda of Denmark gave birth to a daughter at Hirschholm Palace. By her side was the baby’s father Johann Friedrich Struensee, the King’s royal physician. He was stroking her hair and holding her hand as a male accoucheur delivered their daughter. On 22 July, the day of Louise Auguste’s christening, Johann Friedrich Struensee and his friends Enevold Brandt were both ennobled as counts. Caroline Matilda’s husband was King Christian VII of Denmark, and he recognised the child as his own. Christian was mentally ill and under the influence of both Struensee and his Queen. The young Princess received the name Louise for her paternal grandmother and Auguste for her maternal grandmother. Rumours of her paternity were already circling, and in an attempt to counter them, Caroline Matilda asked her husband, her brother-in-law and her husband’s stepmother to stand as sponsors.

The following year, Struensee and Queen Caroline Mathilda were overthrown by Count Schack Carl Rantzau and the Dowager Queen Juliana Maria. Struensee and

Louise Augusta

Christian VII's robe

Christian 7th couldn’t himself decide what to wear on his coronation in 1767. Since his great-great-great-great grandfather Christian 4th’s coronation, it had become a tradition that new kings wore a special, fine and expensive coronation suit. It was made of white silk woven with gold, and cut to imitate the style of a Spanish nobleman from the late 1500’s. At the coronation ceremony the King put on the red velvet mantle embroidered with gold, and lined with ermine, one of the most exclusive royal symbols in all of Europe. The garments and mantle kept their old-fashioned style, like the ceremony itself, for almost 300 years, right up to the last Danish coronation in 1840. Coronations are the most glorious ceremonies in the hierarchy of power. The clothes that the King wore, in the time before television cameras, helped to make him visible at a distance. The coronation robes are the manifestation of his ascending the throne, with God’s benediction, and it had to be highly visible, with sweeping lengths of silk velvet, glittering je

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