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A QUEEN OF TEARS




  _BY THE SAME AUTHOR._

  THE LOVE OF
  AN UNCROWNED QUEEN:

  SOPHIE DOROTHEA, CONSORT OF GEORGE I.,
  AND HER CORRESPONDENCE WITH PHILIP
  CHRISTOPHER, COUNT KONIGSMARCK.

  NEW AND REVISED EDITION.

  _With 24 Portraits and Illustrations._

  _8vo., 12s. 6d. net._

  LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.,

  LONDON, NEW YORK AND BOMBAY.

[Illustration:

_Queen Matilda in the uniform of Colonel of the Holstein Regiment of
Guards._

_After the painting by Als, 1770._]




A QUEEN OF TEARS

CAROLINE MATILDA, QUEEN OF
DENMARK AND NORWAY AND
PRINCESS OF GREAT BRITAIN
AND IRELAND


BY

W. H. WILKINS
_M.A._, _F.S.A._

_Author of "The Love of an Uncrowned Queen," and
"Caroline the Illustrious, Queen Consort of George II."_


WITH ILLUSTRATIONS


IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. II.


LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK AND BOMBAY
1904




CONTENTS


                                         PAGE

  CONTENTS                                  v

  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS                   vii

  CHAPTER I.
  THE TURN OF THE TIDE                      1

  CHAPTER II.
  THE GATHERING STORM                      23

  CHAPTER III.
  THE MASKED BALL                          45

  CHAPTER IV.
  THE PALACE REVOLUTION                    63

  CHAPTER V.
  THE TRIUMPH OF THE QUEEN-DOWAGER         88

  CHAPTER VI.
  "A DAUGHTER OF ENGLAND"                 110

  CHAPTER VII.
  THE IMPRISONED QUEEN                    129

  CHAPTER VIII.
  THE DIVORCE OF THE QUEEN                149

  CHAPTER IX.
  THE TRIALS OF STRUENSEE AND BRANDT      177

  CHAPTER X.
  THE EXECUTIONS                          196

  CHAPTER XI.
  THE RELEASE OF THE QUEEN                216

  CHAPTER XII.
  REFUGE AT CELLE                         239

  CHAPTER XIII.
  THE RESTORATION PLOT                    268

  CHAPTER XIV.
  THE DEATH OF THE QUEEN                  295

  CHAPTER XV.
  RETRIBUTION                             315

  APPENDIX.
  LIST OF AUTHORITIES                     327

  INDEX                                   331

  CATALOG

  TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


  QUEEN MATILDA IN THE UNIFORM OF COLONEL OF THE
  HOLSTEIN REGIMENT OF GUARDS. (_Photogravure._)
  _From a Painting by Als, 1770_                   _Frontispiece_

  THE ROSENBORG CASTLE, COPENHAGEN                _Facing page_ 6

  STRUENSEE. _From the Painting by Jens Juel, 1771, now
  in the possession of Count Bille-Brahe_                  " " 20

  ENEVOLD BRANDT. _From a Miniature at Frederiksborg_      " " 38

  QUEEN JULIANA MARIA, STEP-MOTHER OF CHRISTIAN VII.
  _From the Painting by Clemens_                           " " 54

  KING CHRISTIAN VII.'S NOTE TO QUEEN MATILDA INFORMING
  HER OF HER ARREST                                        " " 74

  THE ROOM IN WHICH QUEEN MATILDA WAS IMPRISONED
  AT KRONBORG                                           _Page_ 85

  COUNT BERNSTORFF                               _Facing page_ 96

  FREDERICK, HEREDITARY PRINCE OF DENMARK, STEP-BROTHER
  OF CHRISTIAN VII.                                       " " 108

  THE COURTYARD OF THE CASTLE AT KRONBORG. _From
  an Engraving_                                           " " 130

  RÖSKILDE CATHEDRAL, WHERE THE KINGS AND QUEENS
  OF DENMARK ARE BURIED                                   " " 150

  THE GREAT COURT OF FREDERIKSBORG PALACE. _From
  a Painting by Heinrich Hansen_                          " " 172

  THE DOCKS, COPENHAGEN, _TEMP. 1770_                     " " 184

  THE MARKET PLACE AND TOWN HALL, COPENHAGEN,
  _TEMP. 1770_                                            " " 184

  STRUENSEE IN HIS DUNGEON. _From a Contemporary Print_   " "