Charlotte Friederike of Mecklenburg

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Princess Charlotte Friederike von Mecklenburg, later Hereditary Princess of Denmark
Tomb, Campo Santo Teutonico, Rome

Charlotte Friederike, Duchess of Mecklenburg [-Schwerin], also: Charlotte, Duchess ... (* December 4, 1784 in Ludwigslust , † July 13, 1840 in Rome , ± Campo Santo Teutonico ) was Duchess of Mecklenburg from the line Mecklenburg- Schwerin and first wife of the future King Christian VIII of Denmark .

Life

Charlotte Friederike was the youngest daughter of Duke Friedrich Franz I of Mecklenburg and his wife Luise von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg .

On June 21, 1806 she was married to her cousin, Hereditary Prince Christian of Denmark, in Ludwigslust. He was the son of Hereditary Prince Friedrich of Denmark and her aunt, Duchess Sophie Friederike zu Mecklenburg . The marriage resulted in a surviving child in 1808, who later became King Frederick VII of Denmark . The following year the couple separated after an affair between Charlotte Friedrike and the court musician Jean Baptiste Édouard Du Puy ; on March 31, 1810, the marriage was divorced.

Charlotte was banished first to Altona and later to Jutland before she became a Catholic in Vicenza in 1830 . She settled in Rome in early 1833, ran a salon that was well attended and mainly looked after Danes in Rome.

Charlotte Friederike died in Rome after a long illness and was buried in a fourfold coffin on the Campo Santo Teutonico . Her grave is adorned with an angel of peace created by Jens Adolf Jerichau . On July 11, 2019, her grave was opened in connection with the investigation into the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi , together with that of Princess Sophie zu Hohenlohe-Bartenstein, who died in 1836 . Both graves were unexpectedly found completely empty.

Her brother Prince Adolf zu Mecklenburg had already become a Catholic in 1818.

Literary figure

Charlotte Friederike is the heroine of the Danish novel by Svend Leopold Princesse Charlotte. Roman om Frederik den Syven des Moder. (Schubotheske, Københav 1897).

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Charlotte Friederike  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ At Vatican, empty tombs add new twist to missing girl mystery , The Guardian , July 11, 2019, accessed July 11
  2. ↑ Dt. Edition udT Princess Charlotte. Novel of the mother Frederik VII of Denmark. Fischer, Berlin 1898. - 2nd (?) Danish edition udT Prinsesse Charlotte [af Danmark]. Novel om Fredrik VII's Moder. Gyldendal, Kjbenhavn 1917.
personal data
SURNAME Charlotte Friederike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mecklenburg, Charlotte Friederike zu (wrong name form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duchess of Mecklenburg; Crown Princess of Denmark
DATE OF BIRTH December 4, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigslust
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1840
Place of death Rome