Hi to one and all ,
It was again my please to welcome the postman with a small package for me , this time it was the latest from UP Miniaturen : Queen Louis v Mecklenburg Strelitz of Prussia.
First lets have some background on Louise , a truely beautiful woman as you can see from the pictures .
Luise Auguste Wilhelmine Amalie (10 March 1776 – 19 July 1810) was Queen consort of Prussia.
Louise was born in Hannover , in 1793 Luise met the Crown Prince of Prussia, he was deeply impressed by her beauty and nobility of character, Frederick William asked her to become his wife. They were married on 24 December of the same year. As Queen of Prussia, she commanded universal respect and affection, and nothing in Prussian history is more admired than the dignity and unflinching courage with which she bore the sufferings inflicted on her and her family during the war between Prussia and France
After the Jena and when the battles of Eylau and Frieland had placed Prussia absolutely at the mercy of France, she made a personal appeal to Napoleon at his headquarters in Tilst, but to no avail.
During the war Napoleon attempted to destroy the Queen's reputation, but the only effect of his charges in Prussia was to make her more deeply beloved. On 19 July 1810 she died aged 34 in her husband's arms, while visiting her father in Strelitz. She was buried in the garden of the Palace at Charlottenburg , where a mausoleum, containing a fine recumbent was built over her grave (see pictures). In 1840, her husband was buried by her side
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It was again my please to welcome the postman with a small package for me , this time it was the latest from UP Miniaturen : Queen Louis v Mecklenburg Strelitz of Prussia.
First lets have some background on Louise , a truely beautiful woman as you can see from the pictures .
Luise Auguste Wilhelmine Amalie (10 March 1776 – 19 July 1810) was Queen consort of Prussia.
Louise was born in Hannover , in 1793 Luise met the Crown Prince of Prussia, he was deeply impressed by her beauty and nobility of character, Frederick William asked her to become his wife. They were married on 24 December of the same year. As Queen of Prussia, she commanded universal respect and affection, and nothing in Prussian history is more admired than the dignity and unflinching courage with which she bore the sufferings inflicted on her and her family during the war between Prussia and France
After the Jena and when the battles of Eylau and Frieland had placed Prussia absolutely at the mercy of France, she made a personal appeal to Napoleon at his headquarters in Tilst, but to no avail.
During the war Napoleon attempted to destroy the Queen's reputation, but the only effect of his charges in Prussia was to make her more deeply beloved. On 19 July 1810 she died aged 34 in her husband's arms, while visiting her father in Strelitz. She was buried in the garden of the Palace at Charlottenburg , where a mausoleum, containing a fine recumbent was built over her grave (see pictures). In 1840, her husband was buried by her side
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