Swedish princess. She belonged to the Oldenburg Dynasty as the only daughter of King Adolph Fredrick and Queen Louise Ulrica. When her brother became King also of Norway in 1814, she was excluded from that part of it and thereafter was referred to only as Royal Princess in official publications. It was like an original "no-sisters" policy such as the one in 1980 when the current Swedish king's sisters were cut off once and for all. In 1787 she ascended to the position of reigning Abbess of Quedlinburg, a Protestant monastery in northern Germany. She was heavily involved in the 1770s-1790s intrigue and drama surrounding her earlier king-brother Gustav III and the upheaval after his assassination. She also made a project out of trying to get recognition for a young woman at court whom she believed to be her half-sister through an extramarital affair of her father's. That scandal was only trumped by rumors that she had given birth in secret herself to at least one child either by Prince von Hessenstein or by Caribbean-Swedish courtier Badin. By the time the new Bernadotte Dynasty arrived from France and took over in 1818, she was the only remnant left alive of the ancient Swedish Dynasties, and had put her white wigs away for a more Napoleonic look.
Swedish princess. She belonged to the Oldenburg Dynasty as the only daughter of King Adolph Fredrick and Queen Louise Ulrica. When her brother became King also of Norway in 1814, she was excluded from that part of it and thereafter was referred to only as Royal Princess in official publications. It was like an original "no-sisters" policy such as the one in 1980 when the current Swedish king's sisters were cut off once and for all. In 1787 she ascended to the position of reigning Abbess of Quedlinburg, a Protestant monastery in northern Germany. She was heavily involved in the 1770s-1790s intrigue and drama surrounding her earlier king-brother Gustav III and the upheaval after his assassination. She also made a project out of trying to get recognition for a young woman at court whom she believed to be her half-sister through an extramarital affair of her father's. That scandal was only trumped by rumors that she had given birth in secret herself to at least one child either by Prince von Hessenstein or by Caribbean-Swedish courtier Badin. By the time the new Bernadotte Dynasty arrived from France and took over in 1818, she was the only remnant left alive of the ancient Swedish Dynasties, and had put her white wigs away for a more Napoleonic look.
Bio by: Count Demitz
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