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unusual facts about Caroline Matilda of Great Britain


Peter Lotharius Oxholm

From 1771 Oxholm was page to Queen Carolina Mathilda, and he was present at her arrest in 1772.


Charlotte, Princess Royal

She was christened on 27 October 1766 at St James's Palace, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Secker, and her godparents were her paternal uncle and aunt, King Christian VII of Denmark and his wife, Caroline Matilda of Great Britain (for whom the Duke of Portland, Lord Chamberlain, and the Dowager Countess of Effingham, stood proxy, respectively) and her paternal aunt, Princess Louisa.

Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall

He claimed to have shown by original research the worthlessness of the evidence on which the queen was divorced after the Struensee affair, and published for the first time (iii. 252–3) the letter protesting her innocence, which the queen wrote just before her death to her brother George III of the United Kingdom.


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