Christian was only nominally king from 1772 onward. Between 1772 and 1784, Denmark-Norway was ruled by his stepmother, the Queen Dowager Juliane Marie, his half-brother Frederick, and the Danish politician Ove Høegh-Guldberg. From 1784, his son Frederick VI ruled permanently as prince regent. This regency was marked by liberal, judicial and agricultural reforms, but also by disasters of the Theatre War, French Revolutionary Wars and the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars, also at the same time the Norwegian separatist movement was on the rise.