Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 3 (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. 3 (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
Munkholm, fortress of, 124;
Colonel Falckenskjold sentenced to imprisonment for life there,
_ib._;
history of his abode there, 125 _et seq._;
voyage to, 125, 126;
description of the fort, 126;
a monastery of Benedictines founded here by Canute the Great,
_ib. note_;
demoralised state of the soldiery, 128;
Lieutenant-General von der Osten the commandant, _ib._;
officers of, 129;
the garrison chaplain, 132;
a fresh commandant of the fortress, Major Colin, 135;
imprisonment of Beringskjold, the political foe of
Falckenskjold, 278.
Münter, Dr., peruses the sentence against Struensee with trembling, 73;
his communications with Struensee, 73 _et seq._;
his opinions on Struensee's conduct, 79;
his kindness to Struensee, 83;
attends him to the scaffold, 90-3;
rewards allotted to, 95 _et note_.
N.
Norwegian coast, the, 131.
O.
Ortwed, Etats-rath, the king's bailiff, 88.
Osnabrück, strange adventure at, 199.
Osten, lieutenant-general von der, commandant of Munkholm, 128;
his brutal character, 129;
brings a pardon to Colonel Falckenskjold, 138.
Osten, count von der, one of the triumvirate in the government of
Denmark, 262;
banished to Jütland, 278;
his subsequent appointment, 279;
his death, _ib._
P.
Prince Royal, Struensee's letter to his governess, 78.
Q.
Queen Dowager (_see_ JULIANA MARIA.)
R.
Rantzau, count von, his blackness of soul, 76;
Struensee's letter to, 81, 82;
no hostile feelings entertained against, 81;
one of the triumvirate in the government of Denmark, 263;
suddenly removed from his office, _ib._;
ordered to quit the country, 264;
settles at Avignon, _ib._;
his death, _ib._
Reforms, by Struensee, 39 _et seq._
Reverdil's animadversions on Count Brandt's trial and sentence, 69;
exposes the Grub Street libellers, 165.
Roques, M., pastor of the French Protestant Church at Celle, 254;
his testimony to the queen's innocence and purity of mind, _ib._
Rosencrone, count, opposed by the crown prince, 284, 285.
Rosenkranz, von, privy councillor, 285.
Rothes, Christian Adolphus, an anonymous libeller, 165.
Royal prerogative, 53.
S.
St. Germain, count de, sentiment of, 135.
"Sandkrug," the suburban inn of Celle, 189.
Scarlet fever, prevalence of, in the neighbourhood of Celle, 243;
the queen's illness and death caused by, 244 _et seq._
Schack, supreme marshal von, dismissed, and expelled from the
court by the crown prince, 286.
Scheel, the valet, his evidence, 5.
Schimmelmann, baron von, and his lady, 176;
their son introduced to Mr. Wraxall, 180;
his revolutionary project, 181.
Schmidt, J. C. E., one of the commissioners who sentenced
Struensee, 61, and Count Brandt, 67.
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