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MARIENLYST.
Chap. XVII.
Then came the Reformation; monks and nuns were
swept away, and the convent and its possessions fell to
the Crown of Denmark. The site was charming, and later
Frederic IV. here constructed an Italian villa, where he
resided in the summer season. From him it passed into
the possession of the Counts Moltke, and again became
royal property and a dower apanage of Queen Juliana
Maria, from whose second name it derives its present
appellation.
Yes, from these very windows Juliana, in her joy and
bitterness, may have gazed on the prison of her victim
Queen Caroline Matilda, and triumphed at the success
of her intrigue.
Well, Juliana died; Marienlyst still continued royal
property, but was deserted. Apartments were granted
therein to various dowagers, directors of the Sound dues,
&c., until the year 1850, when the present king
determined to convert it into a sort of Chelsea Hospital for
soldiers mutilated during the war. This idea was,
however, never carried out: the invalids preferred residing
in their own houses, and the property, with its
adjoining woods, was then purchased by the town of Elsinore,
who have relet it on a lease of ninety-nine years to its
present proprietor Mr. Nathansen. The establishment
opens on the 1st of June, so we are sure of a month’s quiet
at any rate. The bathing here is excellent, and I have
no doubt, when more known (for it is now in its infancy),
Marienlyst will become one of the most favourite
watering-places of Northern Europe.
We inhabit the premier. The “bel étage”—not
according to rule, but on account of the view—is on our
second; a suite of apartments richly painted and
decorated in the style of the last century; medallions of
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