Lovisa Meijerfeldt

Who is Lovisa Meijerfeldt?

Lovisa Augusta Meijerfeldt was a Swedish noble and courtier. She is famous in history for being one of the so-called "Three Graces", alongside the sisters Augusta von Fersen and Ulla von Fersen, three ladies-in-waiting strongly associated with the Gustavian era.

Lovisa Meijerfeldt was the daughter of Governor Count Axel Wrede-Sparre and Augusta Törnflycht. She married Count Johan August Meijerfeldt the Younger in 1763 in the presence of King Adolph Frederick of Sweden and his queen, Louisa Ulrika of Prussia. She was a favorite and leading socialite at court and in 1771 was made a lady-in-waiting of Gustav III's queen consort, Sophia Magdalena of Denmark. With Augusta and Ulla von Fersen, she came to be identified and famous as one of the three graces, expressed by the poet Johan Henric Kellgren in Gracernas döpelse. She was admired for her beauty and charm and is often referred to by the diarists and memoirists of the era. In the 19th century the poet Oxenstierna referred to her as "a beauty, whom the old world once worshiped on their knees as Diana and Venus".

She died in Stockholm in 1817, aged 72.