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FREDERIKSBORG.
Chap. XXV.
later came the affair of the Reventlow Queen, as
disgraceful a history as ever occurred in the annals of any
civilised country.
Christian VI., by Krock of Flensborg, with one leg
stuck out, looks as though about to do the thing he
most condemned in this world—dance a minuet.
We trace many persons of historic notoriety: Anne of
Austria, the Grande Dauphine, by Mignard; the Grande
Mademoiselle, by Rigaud; Elizabeth and Catherine of
Russia, by Vigilius Ericsen, a court painter of Saint
Petersburg, much in vogue in his day. Passing over
Sophia Madalena, that Queen of Queens; Frederic V.
and Juliana, by Pilo, a Swedish artist, much given to
drinking, like his royal patron, with whom he loved to
carouse, we come to the last room but one—dramatis
personæ of Carlyle’s last history: Frederic II. and his
queen, “ eldest of the Beverns,” fat and pretty ; he had
no reason to make a fuss about marrying her. Her
father, the choleric King of Prussia, and Queen Sophia,
sister to George I., ever intriguing after the English
marriages. The Prince of Brunswick-Bevern himself;
George II. and Caroline of Anspach; and last, not
least, Wilhelmina of Baireuth—Wilhelmina the witty,
the spirituelle, writer of memoirs; she was not strictly
a beauty, but very clever-looking; she wrote down
everything that came into her head; judged people on
consummated in presence of the Ministers and Councillors. He hopes
the king will not have ‘ mauvais sentiments ’ on the subject; that he
has consulted the Bible, and he does not find a single word by which
a king and sovereign prince is forbidden to have more than one wife—
it is only the obstinacy of the Church. His Excellence has no idea
how the conduct of his daughter is approved of by everybody,” &c.
One of the arguments brought forward was, that Luther and
Melanc-thon had allowed an Elector of Hesse to have two wives.
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