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Chap. XXV.
HISTORIC PORTRAIT GALLERY.
381
that most oriental of chambers in the Castle of
Rosenborg. In Laurits Jacobsen’s journal I find noted, 28th
of February, “the King sykkede more and more—spoke
no more—and in the evening, at half past six, died,
with his hand on my arm.” He declared himself, on
his death-bed, “ a captive to God; that he had always
had God in his mind;” and he departed, so say the
historians, with “ a perfect consciousness, and as a true
Christian.” *
Having now finished with King Christian and his
family, we will turn to a series of portraits of the
Royal House of England.
The relations between Denmark and England had for
centuries been most friendly, evën before the sovereigns
became connected by the ties of family alliance.
Christian IV., however, as his ambassador Niels Krag
writes him word, appears to have unintentionally
wounded the feelings of the Virgin Queen, for she
complains how he signs his letters only “ Christian,” while
she on her side had always subscribed herself “your
good sister Elizabethand how she intended for the
future to change her signature, and sign in another
manner. After much entreaty the queen allowed
herself to be pacified, and the matter was
satisfactorily arranged; and later at a ball the queen
danced beautifully; she said it was to show him that
she could dance; she had left it off for many years,
but she wanted him to tell his king that she was not
so weak, and that she could dance and be merry yet.
* Frederic KI. was no favourite with his father. When, on his
deathbed, Christian was asked if Duke Frederic, at that time at
Flensborg, should be sent for, he replied, “ No; I have no desire to
see him.”
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