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356
FREDERIKSBORG.
Chap. XXIV.
night, and the following evening made for
Frederiksborg, a drive of three quarters of an hour.
No palace existed on this spot previous to the reign
of King Frederic II., who exchanged the lands of the
suppressed convent of Skov Kloster with the celebrated
Admiral Herluf Trolle for the manor of Hillerod, on
which he caused the earlier castle of Frederiksborg to
be constructed. How he built this castle I have
elsewhere told; pulling down for the sake of the materials
half the historic strongholds of his ancestors, to
say-nothing of abbey churches which had fallen to the
Crown.
Of this building little now remains; its site is occupied
by the royal stables and outhouses; stout stumpy towers,
one at each corner of the moat, it has, wreathed round
with iron cramps bearing the date 1562, and the motto
in German of the pious Queen Sophia.*
Frederic II. was, when we consider the age he lived
in, a right-minded, honourable man. In early life he
was much attached to a young and beautiful girl,
Dagmar Hardenberg by name, who, though of noble
birth, belonged to no princely house; make her his
queen he could not, and he was too high principled to
take advantage of her youth, so he remained a bachelor
until he was thirty-eight years of age, when, yielding
to the entreaties of his advisers, he much against his
will contracted an alliance with the Princess Sophia
of Mecklenburg. Tradition relates how Dagmar was
present at the coronation of the queen, which took place
in the Frue Kirke of Copenhagen, but, overcome by
her feelings, fainted away, was carried out of the church,
* See p. 282.
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