Bertha (''Anna Barbara'') Zück, also called ''Babette'' (2 February 1797 – 20 February 1868 at

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Anna Barbara Zück
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, Lady's maid and

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of Queen Josephine of Sweden. Bertha Zück arrived to Sweden from Bavaria in the entourage of

Josephine of Leuchtenberg Joséphine of Leuchtenberg (Joséphine Maximilienne Eugénie Napoléone de Beauharnais; 14 March 1807 – 7 June 1876) was Queen of Sweden and Norway from 8 March 1844 to 8 July 1859 as the wife of King Oscar I. She was also Princess of Bologna f ...

at her wedding with the Crown Prince of Sweden in 1823. Josephine became Queen in 1844. Zück was, alongside Josephine’s Catholic confessor, Lorentz Studach (d. 1873), Josephine's most intimate friend and

: Zück, Studach and Josephine was so close that they were referred to at the royal court as ”The Trio”. Originally employed as a lady's maid, Bertha Zück was later appointed to the post of the Queen's treasurer, an unusual post for a woman in the 19th century.

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* Lars Elgklou: Bernadotte. Historien - eller historier - om en familj., Askild & Kärnekull Förlag AB, Stockholm 1978. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Zuck, Bertha 1797 births 1868 deaths Treasurers 19th-century Swedish people Royal favourites Swedish courtiers Swedish royal favourites

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