Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 2 (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. 2 (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
Press, freedom of the, 50;
restrictions on the, 59.
Prince Royal, education of the, 313, 262.
Privy Council of State, established, 152, 153;
the members, 153, 156;
Struensee's examination before the, 178 _et seq._;
Brandt's examination, 184;
examination of the different prisoners, 201, 202.
Public opinion, Struensee's indifference to, 357.
Q.
Queen Dowager. (_See_ JULIANA MARIA.)
Queen's bouquet, Struensee's sale of the, 292.
R.
Rantzau-Ascheberg, count, remonstrates with Struensee, 81;
joins in a conspiracy against him, 84-102;
his position and character, 88;
his vacillation, 99;
his intention to betray the conspiracy, 100;
pretends a fit of the gout, _ib._;
surprises the king in bed, 103;
undertakes the arrest of the queen,
Caroline Matilda, 113;
the resistance he meets with, 114, 115;
his promotions, 125;
appointed minister for the army, 156;
his opposition to Count Bernstorff, 345.
Reverdil, his character as an honest man, 50;
his political honesty, 83;
insult to, 96;
his arrest, 144;
his interview with the queen dowager, 145;
leaves Copenhagen, and enters the service of the Helvetic republic,
where he remains until his death, 146;
his visit to London, and his statement respecting the Danish envoy,
168;
his remark on Brandt, 182, _note_;
his appeal to the king in Caroline Matilda's favour, 251;
his defence of Struensee, 319.
Römeling, admiral, appointed minister for the army, 156.
Rönpstorff, major von, arrests the town commandant and Justiz-rath
Struensee, 112;
his reward, 126.
Royal family of England, their successive mortifications, 162.
Rumohr, Herr von, 11.
S.
Sailors, Norwegian, their threatening demonstration, 9;
obtain redress, 10;
sent on furlough, 56.
Sames, colonel von, 66;
arrests Count Brandt, 109;
his rewards, 126.
Schack, von, the king's page, 59-66;
appointed reporter for the treasury, 156;
selected to lay before the queen Struensee's confession, which
she precipitately signs, 209, 211.
Schimmelmann, Frau von, 97.
Schimmelmann, baron, tirade against, 163.
Schiötte, Frau, evidence of, on the queen's trial, 240.
Schlemann, lieutenant, 98.
Schulin, count, his house and library destroyed by the mob, 121, 122.
Silk weavers of Copenhagen, their complaints, 11.
Sorgenfrie police, 55.
Sprengtporten, baron von, the Swedish envoy, 80.
Staffeldt, privy councillor von, dismissed, 52, 53.
State prisoners, examination of, before the privy council of state,
178-202.
Struensee, Adam, his fatherly letter to his son, 194.
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