father house death_date succession mother birth_place death_place burial_place religion birth_date issue spouse image article_title reign
frederick august i , duke of oldenburg house of holstein-gottorp 20 june 1818 queen consort of sweden queen consort of norway ulrike friederike wilhelmine of hesse-kassel eutin stockholm riddarholmen church lutheranism 22 march 1759 louise hedvig carl adolf , duke of värmland charles xiii of sweden charlotte of sweden & norway c 1809.jpg hedvig elisabeth charlotte of holstein-gottorp
 5 4 november 1814 & ndash ; 5 february 1818 june 1809 & ndash ; 5 february 1818
hedvig elisabeth charlotte of holstein-gottorp

hedwig elisabeth charlotte of holstein-gottorp -lrb- ; 22 march 1759 -- 20 june 1818 -rrb- was queen of sweden and norway as the wife of king charles xiii and ii .
she was also a famed diarist , memoirist and witticist .
she is generally known in sweden by her full pen name in swedish -lrb- above -rrb- , though her official name as queen was charlotte .
she was born in eutin the daughter of duke frederick august i of holstein-gottorp and princess ulrike friederike wilhelmine of hesse-kassel .
she grew up in eutin and married her cousin charles , duke of södermanland , in stockholm on 7 july 1774 when she was fifteen years old .
the marriage was arranged by king gustav iii to provide the throne of sweden with an heir .
the king had not consummated his marriage and had decided to give the task of providing an heir to the throne to his brother .
