Jaquette Löwenhielm

Who was Jaquette Löwenhielm?

Gustava Charlotta Jacquette Aurora Gyldenstolpe was a Swedish noble and lady-in-waiting. She is known as the mistress of Oscar I of Sweden in circa 1819-1827.

Jaquette was the daughter of Major General Nils Wexionius, 5th Count Gyldenstolpe, and his spouse, the salonist Charlotta Aurora De Geer.

Jaquette Gyldenstolpe was a maid of honor to the queen, Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp. In 18 September 1817, she married Lieutenant General Count Carl Gustaf Löwenhielm and moved with him to his estate in Värmland. The marriage was childless. Jaquette did not like the role of mistress at a country estate, and missed life at court. They moved back to the city when her spouse was appointed chamberlain to the Crown Prince. At the royal court, Jaquette became a center of the circle around the Crown Prince, alongside her mother, Gustaf Lagebjelke, Mariana Koskull and the wife of the Dutch ambassador, which amused themselves with masquerades and French language amateur theater at Rosersberg Palace. Jaquette and Oscar was pointed out as lovers in many private letters of the time.