Charlotte of Denmark
| Charlotte of Denmark | |
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| Princess of Hesse-Kassel | |
Portrait by August Schiøtt, c. 1830-39
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| Born |
30 October 1789 Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen |
| Died | 28 March 1864 (aged 74) Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen |
| Spouse | Prince William of Hesse-Kassel |
| Issue | Caroline Frederica Marie Luise Charlotte Louise, Queen of Denmark Frederick Auguste Sophie Sophie Wilhelmine |
| House | Oldenburg |
| Father | Hereditary Prince Frederick of Denmark and Norway |
| Mother | Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin |
Princess Louise Charlotte of Denmark (Danish: Charlotte af Danmark; 30 October 1789 – 28 March 1864) was a Danish princess, and a princess of Hesse-Kassel by marriage to Prince William of Hesse-Kassel. She played an important role in the succession crisis in Denmark in the first half of the 19th-century.
She was born in Christiansborg Palace to Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark and Norway, and Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
On 10 November 1810 in Amalienborg Palace she married Prince William of Hesse-Kassel. Her spouse was in Danish service from his youth, and the family lived in Denmark.
Princess Charlotte was described as a wise, practical and thrifty, and kept the finances of her household under strict control. She had some interest in art and poetry, and reportedly felt herself to be a Danish patriot. Charlotte played some part in the succession crisis which occurred because her cousin king Frederick lacked a male heir. She supported the solution that her branch of the family should succeeded to the throne, and because of this, she opposed the Schleswig-Holstein matter.
In 1839, he brother Christian VIII of Denmark succeeded their cousin on the throne, and during the reign of her brother, Charlotte had an important position at the Danish royal court in Copenhagen because her brother favored that her line of the family should succeed to the throne after the male line had died out.
In 1848, her brother died and was succeeded by his childless son, her nephew. In 1850, the Danish government was influenced by the demand of the Empire of Russia to discontinue its support of her line of the family in the succession order in favor of the Duke of Oldenburg, her son-in-law. Christian of Oldenburg had displayed an anti-Danish sentiment during the recent war, and when gehejmeråd F.C. Dankwart, on behalf of the government, issued negotiations with her that she should renounce her and her sons right to the throne in favor of her son-in-law, she replied: "It is impossible: the Danish people would under no circumstance accept as King a Prince from a house who has made war against Denmark, and who is so hostile toward us". In exchange, she demanded that the House of Oldenburg purchased the Duchy of Hesse and name if Kingdom, so that her son Frederick could "Switch one Kingdom for another". After having been persuaded that her terms was impossible and that Christian of Oldenburg in fact had good support for his claim, she agreed to renounce her and her sons claims to the throne.
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