page_title: Princess Louise Augusta of Denmark
section_title: Marriage
hierarchical_section_title: Princess Louise Augusta of Denmark / Marriage
caption_attribution_description: Danish: Maleriet var oprindeligt i den augustenborgske slægts eje. Efter 1850 blev augustenborgernes godser konfiskeret af den danske stat, og slægten måtte drage i landflygtighed med sit indbo til dens schlesiske ejendomme. Ved Ernst Günthers død i 1921, uddøde den augustenborgske mandslinje, og godset og indboet tilfaldt flere forskellige kvindelige medlemmer af slægten, der, som følge af den almindelige fattigdom i Tyskland i kølvandet på 1. verdenskrigs afslutning, besluttede at realisere effekterne. Samlingen, som bestod af talrige kunstværker og genstande med tilknytning til det danske kongehus, blev solgt enkeltvis og i mindre portioner. I 1930 var en mindre samling af effekterne endt i Matthies antikvitetshandel i Berlin. Her købte museumsinspektør Otto Andrup hele samlingen på 300 genstande, bestående af malerier, møbler og bl.a. sølvtøj, for ca. 120.000 kr. Købet var lidt af en satsning fra Andrups side, idet han på grund af juleferie, ikke havde kunnet komme i kontakt med Frederiksborgmuseets bestyrelse, og dermed ikke havde bemyndigelse til det store udlæg. Købet blev derfor officielt foretaget af Andrup selv, på trods af at han ikke selv havde sådanne midler til rådighed. Det lykkedes dog et par dage efter for Andrup at få bestyrelsen til at acceptere købet, som bl.a. indeholdt dette maleri af prinsesse Louise Augusta, malet af Jens Juel. Frederiksborgmuseet udvalgte end del genstande til den nationalhistoriske udstilling og resten blev efterhånden bortsolgt til anden side. Kilde: Zelia N. Andrup, Otto Andrup og livet omkring ham, Rosenkilde og Bagger, 1970, s. 118-125.
context_page_description: Princess Louise Augusta of Denmark and Norway was the daughter of the Queen of Denmark, Caroline Matilda of Great Britain. Though officially regarded as the daughter of King Christian VII, it is widely accepted that her biological father was Johann Friedrich Struensee, the king’s royal physician and de facto regent of the country at the time of her birth. She was referred to sometimes as "la petite Struensee"; this did not, however, have any effect on her position.
context_section_description: In February 1779 the nation's foremost statesman, Chief Minister Andreas Peter Bernstorff, hatched an ingenious plan for the young princess.  Since a son of hers could ascend the throne some day, it would be advantageous to arrange a marriage early, and to marry the "half-royal" back into the family, to the Hereditary Prince of Augustenborg.  This plan not only had the positive effect of more closely connecting the Danish royal house’s two lines, the ruling House of Oldenborg and the offshoot House of Augustenborg, thus discouraging the threat of a breakup of the kingdom, but also the prevention of her marriage into the Swedish royal house.
  Her future spouse was a prince with an exceptionally high concentration of recent Danish ancestors. He was closely related to all important families of the then high nobility of Denmark. The binding agreements were made a year later, and in spring 1785 the 20-year-old Duke Frederick Christian II came to Copenhagen. The engagement was announced then, and a year later, on 27 May 1786 the 14-year-old Louise Augusta was married at Christiansborg Palace.
caption: Portrait of Louise Auguste in 1787 by Jens Juel.
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