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FREDERIKSBORG.
Chap. XXV.
Hanover is again transmitted to the daughters of
Queen Louisa and King Frederic V., the fair Queen of
Sweden,* and the Landgravine of Hesse.*|* George III.
in his robes of state, by Ramsay—as fine a young
man as you may wish to see—air moutonnier; and
again, later in life, with Queen Charlotte. Charlotte
of Mecklenburg—old Queen Charlotte—in her early
youth was not without her charms—see her portrait in
the Palace of Herrenhausen, near Hanover—well made,
but no features beyond her eyes, teeth, and complexion.
Had she been a Frenchwoman and a coquette, the
queen would have been a fascinating woman till late in
life—still, as fascinating women of that kind always
turn out, a plain old woman; but Queen Charlotte was
quiet and domestic; she loved her husband and her
children, was “ awfully proper ” and straitlaced; and
as a matter of course became hideously ugly.
Last comes Caroline Matilda, here done justice to, an
earlier painting by Juel, rather inclined to embonpoint,
joyous and buxom, decidedly a very pretty woman; again
in a winter costume, trimmed with fur, and a mob cap,
most unbecoming to her Majesty4 In an adjoining
cabinet you see inscribed upon the window frame the
well-known verse, “ Oh keep me innocent, make others
great.” Only gaze at her portrait, at the innocent
bonhommie of her face, and you may see at once
* See p. 257.
f The Landgravine bore a striking likeness to her grandmother
Queen Caroline.
t The engravings of Queen Caroline Matilda, by Cotes (1766),
published in England after her death, are unlike the jovial character
of this unhappy queen; they were evidently “ sentimentalised ” to
suit the feeling of the day.
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