Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
| Duchess Louise Charlotte | |
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| Hereditary Princess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg | |
Louise Charlotte, Hereditary Princess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and her husband, by Alexandre Molinari, Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden.
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| Spouse(s) | Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg |
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Titles and styles
HH The Hereditary Princess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
HH Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin |
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| Noble family |
House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (by birth) House of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (by marriage) |
| Father | Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin |
| Mother | Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg |
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19 November 1779 Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany |
| Died | 4 January 1801 (aged 21) Gotha, Germany |
Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (19 November 1779 – 4 January 1801) was the maternal grandmother of Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
Louise Charlotte was born Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, her father being Friedrich Franz I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Her mother was Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg; her sister Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1784–1840) married King Christian VIII of Denmark.
On 1 November 1795, Louise Charlotte was engaged to King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden. The engagement was arranged by Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm, the de facto regent of Sweden, who wished to keep his influence after the monarch was declared of legal majority by having a queen indebted to him for her position. The king himself was initially positive; the engagement was celebrated in the courts of Sweden and Mecklenburg and Louise Charlotte was mentioned in the official church prayer in Sweden. Empress Catherine the Great, however, wished her grand daughter Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia to be Queen of Sweden, and displayed dislike of the engagement. Upon this many people told the king that Louise Charlotte, whom he had not seen, was not beautiful. About the same period, the monarch also fell in love with Ebba Modée. When the king was declared of legal majority in 1796, he broke off the engagement. Her father demanded compensation. In 1803, the matter was settled when the Swedish city of Wismar in Germany was turned over to Mecklenburg-Schwerin by a treaty in Malmö.
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