Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 1 (of 3): Queen of Denmark and Norway, and Sister of H. M. George III. of EnglandWraxall, Lascelles, Sir
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Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 1 (of 3): Queen of Denmark and Norway, and Sister of H. M. George III. of England
Wraxall, Lascelles, Sir
Caroline Mathilde, Queen, consort of Christian VII, King of Denmark, 1751-1775; Denmark -- History -- Christian VII, 1766-1808
CAROLINE MATILDA, Princess; birth of, 15;
account of her youth, 33;
her vivaciousness and sweetness of temper, 34;
her manners and person, 35;
her education, _ib._;
her character, 35, 36;
her correspondence, 37-43;
proposal of marriage on behalf of, 40;
her feelings, 41;
makes her public appearance at Court, _ib._;
her letter to the Princess Mary of Cassel, 42;
public opinion favourable to her marriage, 43;
message from the crown for a grant upon the occasion of her
marriage, 44;
her marriage solemnized at the Chapel Royal of St. James', _ib._;
her departure for Copenhagen, 45;
her anxious feelings, 45, 46;
her letter to her brother, the Duke of York, 45;
her enthusiastic reception at Altona, 47;
loyal addresses to, 48;
her youth and inexperience, 48, 49;
her arrival at Copenhagen, 81;
her marriage, 84;
her warm reception, 85;
warnings respecting her 86, 87;
her household, 88;
feelings of the royal family of Denmark towards, 88, 89;
various festivals and amusements in honour of, 90;
her own account of the journey to Copenhagen, written to her
brother, the Duke of York, 92 _et seq._;
her description of Holstein and Copenhagen, 94, 96;
her coronation, 98;
her first quarrel, 99;
her letter to her brother previous to his death, 101;
letter to her mother, the Princess Dowager of Wales, 102;
insulted by her husband, 103, 104;
gives birth to a son and heir, Frederick VI., 108;
her ladies and maids of honour, 126;
her life at home during her husband's absence, 159 _et seq._;
her letter to Princess Amelia, respecting her husband's dissolute
life, 161;
her letter to Princess Mary of Hesse Cassel, 196;
visit of her brother, the Duke of Gloucester, 198;
greatly humiliated by the insignificant part she played at court,
213;
her acquaintance with Dr. Struensee, 215 _et seq._;
her familiarities with him create suspicion, 226, 227;
accompanies her husband in his journey to Schleswig and Holstein,
228;
her incautious levity, 232;
interview with her mother, the Dowager Princess of Wales, 248, 249;
coldness of, towards her brother, George III., 249, 250;
her favourite residence, the palace of Frederiksborg, 250, 251;
her free and easy manners and masculine dress give offence, 264;
her fondness for hunting, 282, 283;
her costume and personal improvement, 283;
her beautiful appearance described in the recollections of an old
chamberlain, 284;
mad freaks of her husband, 291, 292;
her dissipated habits, 292, 293;
establishes the Order of Matilda, 314;
gives birth to a princess, 345;
her close intimacy with Struensee, 377;
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