Royal Sweden
Jewels - Diamond Buttons of the Queen Luisa-Ulrika
Above Queen Hedwig
Elizabeth Charlotte, wearing the diamond buttons as hair-jewel, of
her mother-in-law, Queen Luisa Ulrika (left). Below her outstanding
wedding-gown of silver lace, now in the vault of the royal castle
of Stockholm.
Charles XIII, Karl XIII, or Carl II, (1748-1818), king of Sweden and
Norway, the second son of king Adolf Frederick of Sweden, and Louisa
Ulrica of Prussia, sister of Frederick the Great, was born at Stockholm
on October 7, 1748..
He had married
his cousin Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp (1759-1818),
on July 7, 1774 but both of their children would die in infancy.
Charles XIII,
1748–1818, king of Sweden (1809–18) and Norway (1814–18). He became
regent for his nephew, Gustavus IV, after the assassination (1792)
of his brother Gustavus III. He introduced some liberal policies,
but these were abandoned at the end of his regency (1796). Called
to the throne at the forced abdication (1809) of his nephew, Charles
accepted a new constitution that limited the monarch's power, and
he signed treaties with Denmark and France and a treaty ceding Finland
to Russia. In 1810 he adopted the French marshal Bernadotte (later
King Charles XIV) as his heir, and thereafter left all affairs in
his hands.
Queen Luisa Ulrika and her famous
diamond jewels
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Saphir-Schmuck
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