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FREDERIKSBORG.
Chap. XXV.
CHAPTER XXV.
Gallery of Historic Portraits at Frederiksborg — King Christian I. and
Queen Dorothea — Her strange head-dress — Adolf of Holstein, the
suitor of QAen Elizabeth — Portraits of Queen Sophia of
Mecklenburg — Marlok of Christian IV. — Prayer-book of Christina
Munk — Family of Christian IV. — Christian IV.’s visit to England —
Portraits of the Stuarts — James I. — His Queen — Prince Henry —
Elizabeth, the Queen of Bohemia — Charles I. and his three sons —
Henrietta of Orleans — Electress Sophia — Air débonnaire of the
House of Hanover — Caroline Matilda and her well-known verse —
Sophia Amelia, the enemy of Eleanor Ulfeld — The Countess Viereck
and the Beventlow Queen — Karen Sehested, the governess of the
children of Christina Munk — The blue ribbon of Osten.
Having finished with the castle and its history, let
us now turn to the National Gallery of historic
portraits preserved within its walls.
It was some nineteen years ago that the idea was first
suggested of arranging the portraits of the various
palaces of the kingdom of Denmark into one National
Gallery, and placing them in the Palace of
Frederiksborg, at that time unoccupied by the Royal
Family. A valuable collection was at the same time
bequeathed to the nation, brought together at a period
when these objects were looked upon as little less than
lumber and treated accordingly.
Many of great value had been consumed in the
conflagration of Christiansborg at the end of the last
century; and the full-lengths which now adorn the
Riddersaal were the few which were rescued from the
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