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Chap. XXII.
ROYAL REFORMS.
333
years later. The first act of the new monarch
was to send flying about her business the
Revent-low Queen, who had shown them great kindness
on their arrival from Germany, and stood their friend
on all occasions with her royal consort.
As for Queen Madalena, she had no time to regret
her father-in-law ; she had her coronation to look after,
and a fine coronation it was, cost two millions of specie
to the country; all her family came over from
Germany to witness it, and then, finding the climate of
Denmark conducive to their good, remained there
altogether; among them, her mother the margravine.
Germans arrive now like cockchafers: Denmark, very
much disgusted, &c. “We must really establish
something like etiquette,” declared Madalena; “how well
they manage these things at Versailles! ” So she
publishes her ordinances, and that of her dinner appears to
tis common mortals to have been dignified in the
extreme, but singularly inconvenient, especially if she cared
to dine hot: the hofjunker first cuts up her meat, while
a kammerherr stands behind her chair; he then delivers
it to the page in waiting, who passes it on to the
kammerherr, who gives it to the queen. “We must imitate
the splendour of the Saxon court! ” cries Madalena.
“We must insist on the people going to church! ”
exclaims King Christian; and each went their own way
about gaining the object in view. The one pulls down
11,150 dollars. Frederic, with all his immorality, was the restorer of
the royal finances. When he died (1730) he left thirty barrels of
gold in the treasury, which, considering the sum he gave for the
building of Copenhagen after the fire, is enormous; when he ascended
the throne the country was eleven barrels in debt.
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