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Queen Carolina Matilda, tragic destiny

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Rebecca:
What was the cause of Caroline Mathilde's death?  ???

Zanthia:
Scarlet fever. There was an epidemic in Celle. :(

Yseult:
It´s strange the way things go...I was remembering Sophia Dorothea, the grand-grand-mother of Carolina. She was also imprisoned in Celle after the murder of her lover, Königsmark. But Sophia Dorothea had an emotional support, provided by her mother, Eleonore d´Olbreuse, and, later, by her correspondence with her own daughter, another Sophia Dorothea...

Do you know if Carolina felt alone in her downfall?

Zanthia:
I don't know for certain, but I can imagined that she did. Being seperated from her children and not allowed to write to them or see them. She was very popular in Celle. The people there was quite proud to have a real queen living in their town. I think that brought her some joy. She was probably somewhat reliefed of getting away from the intrigues at the court and her husband, but unhappy to be forced away from her children and Struensee who betrayed her in the trial, by saying that he'd never loved her and that she was nothing but a plaything for him. (Creep! >:()

Yseult:
The most tragical thing was, I believe, that Struensee betrayed her in the trial. In the last month, I was reading the bio on Peter the Great by Massie and I felt impressed with the lover of Eudoxia Lopukhina, Stepan Glebov. Glebov had a relationship with Eudoxia when she was a divorced woman, secluded in the convent of Suzdal...she was not the woman of the emperor, although she was the mother of the heir presumptive. When the relationship between Eudoxia and Stepan was known by Peter, the emperor ordered that Glebov would be tortured and executed by quartering. But Stepan was valiant, brave and courageus enough to carry on, and never betrayed his Eudoxia.

Struensee took advantages making love to Caroline and he was probably the father of Louisa Augusta. So, from my point of view, when he betrayed his lover the queen, he was also betraying their common daughter. A double treason.

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