My thanks are due to Miss Hermione Ramsden for kindly translating for me sundry documents from the Danish; to Mr. Louis Bobé, of Copenhagen, for much interesting information; and to the Editor of the Nineteenth Century and After for allowing me to re-publish certain passages from an article I recently contributed to that review on Augusta, Princess of Wales. I must also thank the Earl of Wharncliffe for permitting me to reproduce the picture of Lord Bute at Wortley Hall, and Count Kielmansegg for similar permission with regard to the portrait of Madame de Walmoden at Gülzow.

W. H. WILKINS.

November, 1903.

CONTENTS

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[Preface][v]
[Contents][ix]
[List of Illustrations][xi]
[CHAPTER I.]
Birth and Parentage[1]
[CHAPTER II.]
Childhood and Youth[19]
[CHAPTER III.]
The Betrothal[35]
[CHAPTER IV.]
The Training of a King[52]
[CHAPTER V.]
“The Northern Scamp”[70]
[CHAPTER VI.]
Matilda’s Arrival in Denmark[84]
[CHAPTER VII.]
Mariage à la Mode[106]
[CHAPTER VIII.]
At the Court of Denmark[124]
[CHAPTER IX.]
The Birth of a Prince[138]
[CHAPTER X.]
Christian VII. in England[152]
[CHAPTER XI.]
The Prodigal’s Return[175]
[CHAPTER XII.]
Struensee[193]
[CHAPTER XIII.]
The Tempter[209]
[CHAPTER XIV.]
The Queen’s Folly[228]
[CHAPTER XV.]
The Fall of Bernstorff[251]
[CHAPTER XVI.]
Queen and Empress[265]
[CHAPTER XVII.]
The Reformer[280]
[CHAPTER XVIII.]
The Order of Matilda[303]
[CHAPTER XIX.]
The Dictator[328]
[Transcriber’s Note]