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1230 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
Handlexicon we read respecting her: "She was born October 8,
1753, and was the only daughter and youngest child of King
Adolphus Frederic " and Queen Louisa Ulrica. When fourteen years
old her uncle, Frederic the Great of Prussia, appointed her ’coad
jutrix’ of the abbey at Quedlinburg, which yielded her a hand
some revenue ; this was greatly increased when in 1787 she
became the abbess proper. During the latter part of her life Queen
Louisa Ulrica preferred Princess Sophia Albertina to all her other
children, and she on her part by her self-sacrificing affection and
devotion sought to deserve her mother’s love. She visited her
abbey but rarely, and spent most of her time in Sweden, where
she, the only surviving branch of her family, saw it excluded from
the throne, and another dynasty raised up in its stead. The last
years of her life she spent separated from the world, busying herself
with objects of art. Some valuable pieces of work, the product of her
own hands, with the assistance of the ladies attending upon her, are
still preserved. By nature she was gentle and benevolent; she won
the hearts of all, and when she died in 1826, in her seventy-fifth year,
her departure into the other life was mourned by a great number
of needy people, whom she had succoured with assistance and advice."
NOTE 251.
CHEVALIER BEYLON.
The name of this gentleman is given in Document 276, pp. 696,
699 et seq., as the authority on which the Berlinische Monatsschrift
for 1783 based itself in its attempted explanation of the "Queen’s
story." This testimony, whether originating with Chevalier Beylon
or not, is totally disproved on pp. 678, 685, and 688. Letocard
says of him in Document 276, III, p. 686, "Chevalier Beylon arrived
in Stockholm in the year 1760. *** This refined subtle courtier
died in 1779, very much regretted by the whole court, having had
the rare faculty of causing himself to be loved and esteemed by
both the parties into which Sweden was then divided."
In Hofberg’s Svenskt Biografiskt Handlexicon we read con
cerning him, "Jean François Beylon was reader to Queen Louisa
Ulrica. He was born in Lausanne and received a call to Sweden
in 1760, to act as reader to the Queen. Possessed of a large stock
of information, much discrimination, a fine tact, and engaging
manners, and withal being trusty and inspiring confidence, he in a
short time became the confidant of the Royal family, ’ an important
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