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3 unusual facts about Johann Friedrich Struensee


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.

Johann Friedrich Struensee

The Lost Queen by Norah Lofts, a biography of Queen Caroline Matilda, naturally gives a major place to Struensee

Store Bededag

It was one of the few holidays that survived in the great holiday reform that was carried out in 1771 during the reign of Christian VII, when his Prime Minister, Count Johann Friedrich von Struensee, was in power.



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