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Anna Sophie became Queen of Denmark in 1721. She was the daughter of the Great Chancellor Conrad Reventlow, and was married to Frederik IV. Anna Sophie met the King at a masked ball in 1711 and fell in love with him. The next year he abducted her and they entered a morganatic marriage. A few days after the death of Queen Louise in 1721, the ...
Anna Sophie, 1725. Portrait of Queen Anna Sophie, alledgedly painted by J.S. du Wahl. Her marriage to Frederik IV was initially only a morganatic marriage, or a so-called left-handed marriage, where the King was already officially married to Queen Louise. She caught his eyes at the age of 18 in 1711, and not long after their first encounter ...
Jul 1, 2017 · Anna Sophie's piety and example were not enough to present her only legitimate grandson from converting when he reached adulthood, the Polish throne was a rich enticement after all, and he was the only legitimate child of his father. Alas, Anna Sophie did not live long enough to see her grandson become Augustus III.
- Cheryl Ciucevich
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e. Anne of Denmark ( Danish: Anna; 12 December 1574 – 2 March 1619) was the wife of King James VI and I. She was Queen of Scotland from their marriage on 20 August 1589 and Queen of England and Ireland from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until her death in 1619. [1] The second daughter of King Frederick II of ...
Anne Sophie von Reventlow ( Danish: Anna Sophie; 16 April 1693 – 7 January 1743) was Queen of Denmark and Norway from 1721 to 1730 as the second wife of Frederick IV of Denmark and Norway.
Married Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen on 1 October 1749. Sophia Magdalena. 1746. 1813. Daughter of Frederick V and Louise of Great Britain. Heir presumptive to the throne of Denmark 3 June 1747 – 29 January 1749. Married Gustav III, King of Sweden on 1 October 1766, widowed in 1792.
She was the daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark and Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg. She was the sister of King Christian V of Denmark. She married King James II of England and Ireland and VII of Scotland on July 11, 1683. She died on September 12, 1714, in London, England. Princess Anna Sophie is most famous for being the wife of ...
