Ulrique-Frédérique Wilhemine de Hesse-Cassel

## Princesse de Cassel

Princesse de Cassel was born the 31st of October, 1722 in Cassel. Her mother, Landgravine Frederique-Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt had begun to train her daughter, Ulrique, to become a Lady within the Court. Through many years of tutoring and education on Etiquette and Court Life, she was introduced at the Age of 25 to the Court by her mother. Though, it wasn't long before she caused a scene.

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### **Family Scandal**

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Ulrique-Frederique Wilhelmine had a childhood friend, Frederick Augustus I of Oldenburg, of which her mother and uncle concluded that they had romantic feelings for each other. When she confronted her Uncle on it. She ended up insulting him, calling him a drunk. Her mother confronted her soon afterwards about it and avoided her daughter for quite some time.

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### **Court Scandals**

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After many months of being ignored or simply jabbed at by her mother in court, she had grown tired of it. Eventually, in an attempt to finally make up with her mother. She attempted to apologize, but before she had the chance; a Serviteur looks at her mothers knees. The Princesse turns to the Serviteurs and shouts at him madly. After storming from the room, her mother has to apologize to the Serviteur profusely.
That wasn't the first and last time it happened, it had happened again merely a few weeks later. Her mother would pull her to the side after apologizing and force the Princess off to her sisters Abbey in Hertford to repent for her actions agains the poor serviteur. After returning to court, she apologized to the said Serviteur and went back to day to day life.

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### **Love Interest**

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After many years of not seeing her childhood friend, and according to her mother, her intended; she finally went to visit her old friend in Oldenburg. After many weeks of chatting, and getting to know each other. The Princess found her mother to be right in her assumption that the young Princess was quite taken with the Duke of Oldenburg. She began to court the Duke and over the next two years, they conversed through letter and visited each other whenever it was possible. This means that Ulrique had been absent from the court for quite sometime and was a little bit rusty with experience to court.
Ulrique would have accepted the Duke of Oldenburgs' proposal upon the 31st of January, 1750 at the Oldenburg familial estate.

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### **Second Scandal**

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After returning from a long trip to Oldenburg, the Princess visited a Court gathering in which she found out the King was in attendance. This drove her into a panic, she had not been in the Crown's presence since the Etats-Generaux. She managed to wave off the panic as her mother, the one who'd trained her in Court Etiquette all her life was in the same room. Eventually when dinner was near completion, her mother had to leave rather abruptly. Which caused her to panic further, she'd fiddle with her fingers eventually, the Duke of Wurttemburg noticed her nervousness. He'd ask if the Princess was alright to which she'd reply. "Yes, I'm just a little nervous, that's all, Votre Grace." eventually she'd get overwhelmed and leave as soon as she could after dinner was finished.

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### **Third Scandal**

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The Ambassador of the Empire of Russia had done a great job of creating drama in front of the court. First, he entered the Room which only held the Princesse de Hesse-Cassel, and took his seat without being invited to sit down. Then, after the Princesses mother arrived, he started acting intensely rude. Especially when Madamoiselle de Schonberg showed up, Madamoiselle de Schonberg was in mourning for the late death of her mother when the Russian Ambassador rudely with "OH!? Who died?!" which both of the Hessian Women found increasingly agitating. Too which they nearly shouted at him for. After re-taking their seats, they had a chat for quite a bit, ignoring the Russian Ambassador, who was sitting in silence. Then suddenly, all three of the ladies stood and walked over to the window of the Drawing Room. They admired the outside weather, and that is when the Russian Ambassador stands. Princesse de Cassel whispers to her mother, 'It'd be a much more beautiful day if it wasn't tainted by the presence of the Russian who knows nothing of the Courtly Etiquette.' Then, her mother takes her seat back up. What happens next, the Russian Ambassador takes his seat without being invited, to which Princess Ulriques mother had noticed and sternly told the Russian Ambassador that he hadn't been invited to sit. Soon after, the Russian Ambassador insulted the Princesses mother, of which had enough and stood. She shouted at the Russian Ambassador, before her mother stopped her tirade. That was when the Russian Ambassador insulted her and her honor. That snapped the straw in half, and Monsieur Fredersdorf, the Princesses mother, and the Princesse herself personally forced him out of the room. The Russian Ambassador had gotten into a scuffle with Monsieur Fredersdorf, to which the ladies promptly came to the aid of Monsieur Fredersdorf, of which, was defending their honor.

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