Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp
Noble person
1759 – 1818
Who was Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp?
Hedwig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp was Queen of Sweden and Norway as the wife of King Charles XIII and II. She was also a famed diarist, memoirist and witticist. She is generally known in Sweden by her full pen name, though her official name as queen was Charlotte.
She was born in Eutin the daughter of Duke Frederick August I of Holstein-Gottorp and Princess Ulrike Friederike Wilhelmine of Hesse-Kassel. She grew up in Eutin and married her cousin Charles, Duke of Södermanland, in Stockholm on 7 July 1774 when she was fifteen years old. The marriage was arranged by King Gustav III to provide the throne of Sweden with an heir. The King had not consummated his marriage and had decided to give the task of providing an heir to the throne to his brother.
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- Born
- Mar 22, 1759
Eutin - Parents
- Spouses
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- Profession
- Died
- Jun 20, 1818
Stockholm
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on July 23, 2013
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