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Ulrika "Ulla" Eleonora von Höpken, later ''
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'' von Fersen'' (24 March 1749 – 17 September 1810), was a Swedish countess and courtier. She is also famous in history as one of "the three graces" of the Gustavian age; three ladies-in-waiting (
Augusta von Fersen Augusta may refer to: Places Australia * Augusta, Western Australia Brazil * Rua Augusta (São Paulo) Canada * Augusta, Ontario * North Augusta, Ontario * Augusta Street (Hamilton, Ontario) France * Augusta Suessionum ("Augusta of the Su ...
, Ulla von Höpken and Louise Meijerfeldt) immortalized in the poem ''Gracernas döpelse'' by Johan Henric Kellgren. She was a leading socialite and trendsetter in contemporary Sweden, and one of the best known personalities of the Gustavian age.Carl Forsstrand: De tre gracerna, minnen och anteckningar från Gustaf III:s Stockholm. Hugo Gebers förlag (1912)


Biography


Early life

Ulrika Eleonora "Ulla" von Fersen was one of six daughters of
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Carl Reinhold von Fersen, royal Crown
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and Charlotta Sparre, a lady-in-waiting . She was the niece of
Axel von Fersen the Elder Count Fredrik Axel von Fersen (5 April 171924 April 1794) was a Swedish statesman and soldier of Baltic German descent. He served as Lord Marshal of the Riksdag of the Estates, and although he worked closely with King Gustav III before and thro ...
, a leading force within the
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political party, and a cousin of the famous
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Axel von Fersen the Younger Hans Axel von Fersen (; 4 September 175520 June 1810), known as Axel de Fersen in France, was a Swedish count, Marshal of the Realm of Sweden, a General of Horse in the royal Swedish Army, one of the Lords of the Realm, aide-de-camp to Rocham ...
, a friend of Queen
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of France. Her father was described as "one of the most elegant and spirited gentlemen of his time", and her mother was celebrated for her beauty at the French royal court of
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, when she accompanied her aunt and uncle,
Ulla Tessin Ulrika "Ulla" Lovisa Tessin née Sparre (23 May 1711 – 14 December 1768) was a Swedish courtier, letter writer and dilettante artist. Life Ulla Tessin was born to ''riksråd'' marshal count Erik Sparre of Sundby and Christina (Stina) Beata Lil ...
and Count
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when he was the Swedish ambassador to France. Both of her parents spent their life in service at the royal Swedish court, and Ulla von Fersen, as well as her sisters, served as ''hovfröken'' (
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) prior to her marriage. From 1767 to 1770, she served as ''hovfröken'' to the Crown Princess,
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.


Love affair with Prince Frederick

In 1767,
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fell in love with Ulla. At the same time,
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courted another lady-in-waiting,
Brita Horn Brita Margaretha Horn (1745 – 13 March 1791), was a Swedish countess and courtier. She is known for being the love interest of Charles XIII of Sweden from 1765 to 1771, during which time Charles' wish to marry her was given political significan ...
. This is mentioned in the memoirs of courtier
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from 1767, when he mentioned the love of the princes for "the maids of honour Brita Horn and Ulrika Fersen.
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' love for the first, Prince Frederick's for the second, were both adjusted to the character of the two ladies. Miss Horn was blond, virtuous, sometimes cold, sometimes tender. She had almost made passion of her influence. Miss Fersen, funny, jolly, happy, capricious, considered the whole affair as a pastime which flattered her confidence and left it at that". Erdmann, Nils, Vid hovet och på adelsgodsen i 1700-talets Sverige: en tidskrönika, Wahlströms, Stockholm, 1926 Hamilton described a scene at
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that summer: "In one corner, the Queen discussed politics, in another, the King talked about the hay- and oat prices with his equerry,
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about fashion and France with Countess Ribbing (born Löwen). Prince Frederick bickered with his beauty (Ulla Fersen), prince Charles stood faithfully by his (Brita Horn), but in silence. The
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stood changing feet in boredom - the rest of the court yawned or slept." Neither of the affairs were, as far as it is known, sexually consummated, and neither Horn nor von Fersen became royal mistresses. Both couples exchanged rings as a token of an unofficial engagement with the intent to marry. Prince Frederick Adolf proposed to Ulla in the garden at
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, and "she laughed and accepted without a moments doubt, amused and flattered. She laughed still when he suggested that they exchanged rings, and was not more serious when he began to shower her with jewels and gifts".Alma Söderhjelm (1945). ''Gustav III:s syskon'' (The siblings of Gustav III) Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag. 23033 (Swedish) In both cases, the royal family was opposed to the love matches. However, while the family of Brita Horn supported a marriage between Prince Charles and Brita, the family of Ulla opposed her marriage to Prince Frederick. Her family was convinced that a royal marriage would be a mistake and refused to permit it. The desired love matches of the princes came to be used by the political parties during the
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of 1769 following the
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. The
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, supported by the family of Brita Horn, promised Prince Charles the support of his love marriage to Brita Horn from the Riksdag against the will of the royal house in exchange for his support. As a counterattack, the
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made a similar offer to Prince Frederick: that her marriage to Ulla would be made possible. This caused a crisis. However, the family of Ulla refused to cooperate with the
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as they did not wish the marriage to take place, and in 1770, they married Ulla off. The family of Ulla forced her to return the ring and presents to the prince and decided that the next proposal to her would be accepted. To avoid a royal match, her family organized a marriage with
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Nils von Höpken (1750–1780),
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captain of the
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n cavalry, a man described as a great beauty who was almost ruined by gambling and spending. While the marriage was not entirely arranged, her family encouraged Nils von Höpken as a suitor because he was beautiful and was expected to be able to make Ulla fall in love with him, which she did. Ulla and Nils von Höpken married in 1770. Prince Frederick was sent on a journey abroad, and when returned one year later, he fell in love with Ulla's cousin,
Sophie Piper Countess Eva Sophie Piper, née Eva Sophie von Fersen (30 March 1757 – 2 February 1816, Schloss Löfstad, Lövstad Castle), was a Swedish countess and lady in waiting. She was the daughter of count Axel von Fersen the Elder and Hedvig Cathari ...
.


One of the Three Graces

Initially, the marriage between Ulla von Höpken and her spouse was happy and passionate. It was said that they were indifferent to their economic problems as long as they had a bed, and they were likened to Amor and Psyche. They had a daughter, Ulrika Sofia Albertina von Höpken (born and died 1772). However, her husband suffered from a problem with drinking and gambling, and in 1773, they separated after he had subjected her to
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out of jealousy. After this, they lived separate lives: he spent his time drinking and gambling, and she in "pleasing others". Ulla von Höpken returned to the royal court, where she served as ''
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'' (
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) to Queen Sophia Magdalena from 1775 to 1795. During her stay in Paris, her mother had studied dance under
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and in turn instructed her daughters, who became known for their grace and talent within dance in the amateur theatre in the court of Gustav III. The most talented participators within the famous amateur court theater of Gustav III were Caroline Lewenhaupt, Carl von Fersen,
Hedvig Ulrika De la Gardie Hedvig Ulrika De la Gardie (29 November 1761 in Stockholm, Sweden – 7 February 1832 in Stockholm), was a Swedish lady-in-waiting. She was married to Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt. She was the head governess of the Swedish royal children in 1799–18 ...
, Nils Barck,
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, Otto Jacob von Manteuffel Zöge, Bror Cederström and the sisters Ulla von Höpken and
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. Ulla von Höpken was a fashion icon and aroused attention by her way of dress - she sometime dressed as a man in trousers to provoke, such as when she on one occasion dressed as a page boy with trousers of leather, boots and spurs.Alma Söderhjelm (1945). Gustav III:s syskon. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag. Foremost, Ulla von Höpken is famous for her love life. She has sometime been identified as a symbol of the frivolous sexual liberty of the 18th-century aristocracy, and it was said in 1782 that "the Aphrodite of the epoch rule as sovereign in the figure of Ulla Höpken". von Höpken had two more children after having separated from her spouse, Nils von Höpken (1774–1829) and Augusta Lovisa von Höpken (1775–1801). In 1778, she was noted to have baron Evert Vilhelm Taube af Odenkat as a lover, whom she shared with Ulrika Eleonora Örnsköld. The same year, she was the subject of a scandal when love letters purporting to be from her circulated, in which she apparently invited several men to join her on the same occasion. In 1781, she was the target of another scandal, when the caricature ''Lisimons'' was written by the courtiers to describe her relationship with her three lovers; the three actual men in question was thereafter referred to as her "lisimons". From about 1781 onward, however, Ulla von Höpken had a serious and permanent long-term relationship with "a beautiful page", the younger Georg Jonas von Wright, who was her lover for the rest of her life and whom she eventually married. Ulla von Höpken was a close platonic friend and confidant of king Gustav III, and it was noted that they enjoyed speaking with each other as if they were flirting. Gustav III once said to her: "Well Ulla, you and me are surely friends for ever and will never leave each other", upon which she answered: "Thank you very much, I have had one unhappy marriage already and that is quite enough." In the summer 1780, Ulla von Höpken was again the subject of a scandal when her estranged husband left his regiment in
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without permission and publicly stated that he wished to join his wife and expected to be housed in her apartment at
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. After an appeal to the king, her husband was forcibly stopped on his way toward the royal court by an order of the monarch that he was to be returned to his regiment by force and arrested if necessary. Her position as a favorite and personal confidante of the monarch was disturbed by a conflict with the rising favorite
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in 1782, who slandered her before the King as vengeance after she herself had made a negative judgement about him.Hedvig Elisabet Charlotta (1903). Hedvig Elisabeth Charlottas dagbok. II, 1783–1788. Stockholm: Norstedt This was repaired, however, and as late as in 1788, she was mentioned as one who had the privilege to speak completely openly to the monarch about anything, including political affairs. Count Claes Julius Ekeblad, who compared her and her life to that of an actress in a comedy play, noted in his correspondence to
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that Ulla von Höpken were "likely the cause of many greater events, both in high society as well as in matters of greater importance."


Later life

After the
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of 1789, when Gustav III came in conflict with the nobility, he arrested her uncle
Axel von Fersen the Elder Count Fredrik Axel von Fersen (5 April 171924 April 1794) was a Swedish statesman and soldier of Baltic German descent. He served as Lord Marshal of the Riksdag of the Estates, and although he worked closely with King Gustav III before and thro ...
as a leader of the aristocratic opposition to the
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and the
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. This caused a break in the relation between Gustav III and Ulla von Höpken, who joined the demonstration of Jeanna von Lantingshausen. In 1795, her mother, chief lady in waiting to queen Sophia Magdalena although bedridden, was relieved from her position, and her daughters Ulla and Augusta simultaneously left their positions at court in solidarity, officially to tend to their mother's health. Her mother died later that same year. In 1797, Ulla von Höpken married her "fateful admirer" and long term lover, the five years younger colonel Georg Jonas von Wright (1754–1800), and reportedly lived happy with him in
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. After having been widowed, she lived with her sisters and "was commonly as respected for their charity as well as for their refined manner, which was primarily afforded those, who was formed by the court of Gustav III". Ulla von Höpken died of cancer.


Legacy

Alongside
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and Louise Meijerfeldt, she became known as one of "the three graces" in the poem ''Gracernas döpelse'' (''The Baptism of the Graces'') by Johan Henric Kellgren, which was written in circa 1779 and published in 1781. Ulla von Höpken was the model of the naked
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sculpture by
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, ''Venus aux belles fesses'' (1779). King Gustav III wished to have a statue of Venus Kallipygos opposite his statue of
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in his salon, and "as a compliment to our ladies in waiting", Ulla von Höpken was chosen as the model of the statue's face, to "celebrate her fifteen years in the service of Venus". In the 18th-century, it was quite controversial for a woman of her social status to stand as the model of a nude statue, and count Claes Julius Ekeblad remarked: "Sergel has, of modesty or because uncle Axel has asked him to, not given this portrait all the likeness he could have, but nevertheless she is recognizable. I admit that I have never, despite all the disregard here shown toward gossip, imagined anything of the sort, to have a femme de qualité exposed to the entire world in this way." The statue was later placed in the National Museum of Fine Arts. An 18-gun
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of the Swedish Royal Navy, ''Ulla Fersen'' was named after her. The frigate participated in the campaign of 1790 and the
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. In March 1801 the ship was detained by the
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while on passage to the Swedish colony Saint Barthelemy, but was released after negotiations. She was wrecked in 1807.


Fiction

Ulla von Höpken is the subject of the
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''Venus i rokoko; en roman om Ulla von Fersen'' (English: '
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Venus; a novel of Ulla von Fersen') by Ole Söderström (1960). The novel gives a relatively correct fictionalized account of her life until she enters into her lifelong love story with Georg Jonas von Wright. It also includes speculation that Gustav III at one point unsuccessfully attempts to have a sexual relationship with Ulla von Höpken, but fails, because of his homosexuality. von Höpken has also been suggested as a role model for
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's character
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in her "aristocratic version".


See also

*
Anna Charlotta Schröderheim Anna Charlotta Schröderheim, née Anna Charlotta von Stapelmohr, also called ''Ann-Charlotte'' or ''Anne-Charlotte'', (24 September 1754 – 1 January 1791), was a Swedish Nobility, noble, wit and Salon (gathering), salonist, spouse of the politi ...


References

* Ingvar Andersson: ''Gustavianskt'' (1979) * Carl Rimberg: Svenska Folkets underbara öden VII. Gustav III:s och Gustav IV Adolfs tid 1756–1792 * Carl Forsstrand (in Swedish): De tre gracerna, minnen och anteckningar från Gustaf III:s Stockholm ("The three graces, memories and notes from the Stockholm of Gustav III") Hugo Gebers förlag (1912)


Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hopken, Ulla Von 1749 births 1810 deaths Swedish ladies-in-waiting 18th-century Swedish nobility Swedish countesses Swedish socialites Gustavian era people Court of Gustav III
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