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Chap. XIV.
FATE OF CAROLINE MATILDA.
221
She devoted much of her leisure hours to the
occupation of turning and carving in ivory, of ’which are
here preserved many specimens.
We now turn to the successor of our English princess,
Juliana Maria of Brunswick, married to Frederick V.
the year after the death of his former queen. In
countenance somewhat handsome (and I have seen
other portraits far more flattering than that of
Rosenborg), in expression villanous, of a bad beauty, fine bust,
and well rounded arm, a want of shade about her face,
she appears a woman capable of fascinating any man
around whom she spread her toils—for heart she had
none—and driving him to perdition in this world and
the next; dangerous she looks, and dangerous she proved
herself to be. Juliana held no place in her husband’s
affections.
The story of the intrigues by which she compassed
the ruin of our English princess Queen Caroline
Matilda, and organized the plot which terminated in
the death of Struensee, are too well known to require
repetition. But I will quote the account given by
Wraxall in his memoirs, 1775, in which year he visited
Copenhagen:—
“ One night, at a grand ball at the palace, the queen,
after dancing as usual one country-dance with the king,
gave her hand to Struensee for the remainder of the
evening: at two o’clock in the morning she retired,
followed by him and Count Brandt. The queen dowager,
and her son Prince Frederic, hastened to the king’s
private chamber, where he was already in bed: they
knelt down beside him, and implored him to save
himself and Denmark from impending destruction, by
ordering the arrest of those they termed the authors of
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