Anna Sofie von Bülow (1745-1787), was a Danish noble and courtier, known for her love life and unconventional life style, known in history as one of the
Three Graces of the Danish royal court.
Life
She was the daughter of Christian Conrad Danneskiold-Laurvig and Dorte Sofie von Holstein and married the courtier baron Frederik Ludvig Ernst von Bülow in 1763.
Together with the baroness
Amalie Sofie Holstein and countess
Christine Sophie von Gähler
Christine Sophie von Gähler, Countess von der Goltz, née von ''Ahlefeldt'' (1745 – 18 July 1792) was a Danish noble and courtier, known for her love life and unconventional life style, known in history as one of the Three Graces of the Danish ...
, she became known as one of the
Three Graces of the Danish royal court.
[August Fjelstrup: ]
Damerne ved Karoline Mathildes Hof
', 1909. She attracted attention with her beauty and love life: at this point, women at the Danish court could have official lovers, called ''amants déclarés'', and hers were in succession minister Konrad Aleksander Fabritius, the royal equerry Frederik Karl von Warnstedt, who left her for
Johanne Marie Malleville, and finally courtier Hans Heinrich Friccius von Schilden-Huitfeldt.
Luise Gramm
Frederikke Louise Stolberg, also known as Luise Gramm (August 21, 1746–November 29, 1824) was a Danish saloniste, playwright and letter writer. She is contributed with a certain degree of political influence upon various power holders in the pol ...
claimed that she scandalously met von Warnstedt in 1770, a room close by another in which the body of the queen dowager was
lying in state.
She accompanied the royal couple on their tour of the Duchies in 1770. During this trip, the king's former favorite
Enevold Brandt
Count Enevold Brandt (1738 - 28 April 1772) was a Danish courtier.
Biography
Brandt was born in Copenhagen, and studied law at the University of Copenhagen. He became assistant judge of the Supreme Court of Copenhagen in 1764, royal chamberlai ...
was recalled to court, and the king's then favorite
Conrad Holck
Frederik Vilhelm Conrad Holck (1745–1800) was a Danish nobleman and courtier.
Biography
Holck was the son of Major General Christian Christopher Holck til Orebygård (1698–1774) and Ermegaard Sophie Winterfeldt (1702–56). He was raised ...
was sent back to Copenhagen. Holck asked his brother, who asked her father, who asked her to speak to the queen on Holck's behalf, but if she did, this did not stop his fall, as he lost his position as royal favorite and was exiled.
In the summer of 1771, Anna Sofie Bülow discovered an open letter addressed to a lady on the stairs of
Frederiksberg Palace. The letter described a plot to arrest
Queen Caroline Matilda and
Struensee
Count, Lensgreve Johann Friedrich Struensee (5 August 1737 – 28 April 1772) was a German-Danish physician, philosopher and statesman. He became royal physician to the mentally ill King Christian VII of Denmark and a minister in the Danish gove ...
, planned to occur at the public party which was to be arranged there 28 September, where the conspirators were to step forward and publicly declare that they acted on loyalty to the king. She sent the letter to the royal court at
Hirschholm Palace
Hirschholm Palace, also known as Hørsholm Palace, was a royal palace located in present-day Hørsholm municipality just north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was rebuilt in the Baroque style in the 1740s and, one of the finest buildings of its time, it ...
. The result was that the public party was cancelled with reference to the king's health, and that the court remained at Hirschholm with a stronger guard than before.
The Bülow couple was exiled to their estate in Holstein after the fall of Struensee in January 1772. In 1774-75, they met
Nathaniel William Wraxall
Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, 1st Baronet (8 April 1751 – 7 November 1831) was an English author and politician.
Life
He was born in Queen Square, Bristol, the son of a Bristol merchant, Nathaniel Wraxall, and his wife Anne, great-niece of S ...
, who planned to install Queen Caroline Matilda as regent of Denmark.
[August Fjelstrup: Damerne ved Karoline Mathildes Hof, 1909.]
References
* August Fjelstrup:
Damerne ved Karoline Mathildes Hof', 1909.
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1745 births
1787 deaths
18th-century Danish nobility
18th-century Danish women