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COPENHAGEN.
Chap. XIV.
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it. The half-imbecile king at first was most unwilling.
Count Rantzau came to the door of her Majesty and
knocked ; a woman of the bed-chamber was ordered to
awake the queen and inform her she was arrested.
Caroline, seizing the infant Princess Louise * in her arms,
endeavoured to gain the king’s apartment, but without
success; she was then hurried into a carriage half
undressed, and confined like a state prisoner in the
castle of Kronborg, from which she was released by the
argument of a strong fleet sent from England.”
From this period all good feeling between the courts
of England and Denmark ended, the bombardment of
Copenhagen in later days tending little to restore the
cordiality between the two countries, who. for so many
centuries had been bound together by the strongest ties
of family alliance.
I find, date July, 1771, a memorial from Peter Ais
to Struensee, concerning a portrait to be painted of
Queen Caroline Matilda, with the Prince Royal on her
knees, for the Duke of Gloucester. Ais begs to know
in what the first designs displeased, and suggests to paint
her either as a goddess or Amazon, or else in the style
of Vandyke, or in the gala costume of the day. The
last was adopted, and the picture, a small full-length, is
in the Royal Collection at Copenhagen. The Duke of
Gloucester, on his visit, gave the queen unpalatable
advice, and the portrait was never sent. Ais also
mentions having painted a picture of the queen the same
year, which she gave as a present to Count Rantzau, who
subsequently arrested her.
At the conflagration of the palace of Christiansborg
* Mother to H. M. the Queen Dowager.
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