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Anna Sophie of Reventlow (1693-1743)
kmerov:
Her step daughter-in-law, Queen Sophie Magdalena hated her very much. She thought that Queen Anna Sophie had soiled the crown of the Queen, and thus she had a new one made for her coronation.
Margot:
You are wonderful Kmerov....honestly I think you are such a beautiful and generous contributor here, so please do not take offense when I correct your English herel! I think 'bewitched' may be what you really meant when you wrote 'besotted the crown'. I hope you do not mind me adding this comment, but I think 'besotted' may confuse some posters to whom English is a second language! 'Besotted' makes it sound as though the crown itself was actually in love with Anna Sophie!
kmerov:
Thank you for your kind words. And thank you for the correction. I didn't mean that at all, I was trying to write that the crown in Sophie Magdalenas eyes had been contaminated, soiled by Anna Sophie wearing it. I have corrected my original post. Besotted is close to the Danish word, besudle (or to me it is), so I wrote a bit too fast.
Anyways, that is the reason why today the Queen's crown is younger than the King's.
Naslednik Norvezhskiy:
Oh yes, I had quite forgotten about how Sophie Magdalena didn't want to be crowned with the same crown as "the whore"!
BTW to the corrupt "Reventlow gang or camarilla" belonged also Anna Sophie's half-siblings, her father's illegitimate children with his second wife's lady-in-waiting Anna Cathrine Haagensen, a daughter of the Mayor of Åbenrå. In examples of that wonderfully parodic Scandinavian penchant for making up faux German-sounding noble names, she was ennobled as Anna Cathrine von Hagen (a play upon on her patronymic surname) and her children as Von Revenfeldt. A play upon the name Reventlow, but in Danish it looks like faux German for Foxfield! ("Field" as in heraldic field. Their arms don't feature any foxes though, only the Reventlow colours red and white and the generic charges helmet and shield.
Many, many years later mad Christian VII died in the arms of Chamberlain Conrad Revenfeldt, his hated stepmother's half-grand nephew.
More funny trivia:
I think the reason why Anna Sophie's arms as Duchess of Slesvig also featured the arms of Dithmarschen was that the Reventlows allegedly originated there in the Middle Ages.
Oh and returning to comical arms: I had never realized that the first wife of Anna Sophie's father was Anna Margrethe Gabel, daughter of King Frederik III's bourgeois-born advisor Christoffer Gabel, who was ennobled with these arms: Upon four quite meaningsless quarterings an inescutcheon featuring two golden forks (Gabel in German) stuck through a golden crown! :-)
Marc:
Maybe she wasn't of royal birth,but her Reventlow family is/was very old and distinguished one...her other ancestors were also from equally very old families such as RantzauAhlefeldt,Brockdorff,Blücher,Hahn,Sparre...but,obviously even that wasn't enough...
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