Christine Sophie Holstein

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Christine Sophie Holstein, (1672-1757), was a politically influential Danish Salonist

Daughter to count Conrad Reventlow (1644-1708) and Anna Margrethe Gabel (1651-78), she married count Niels Friis, (1665-1699) in 1688 and statesman count Ulrik Adolph Holstien in 1700, and belonged to the highest aristocraty in Denmark. In 1707, she was granted Seekamp in Slesvig as her own fief by her father.

From 1712, the king had a relationship with her half sibling, Anna Sophie Reventlow, and later, he married her. Holstein had a large influence over her sister and her royal brother-in-law and called “madame la grande chancellière” (Madame Chancellor), and her wievs wnet through her sister to the king and to the government, and thereby making her an important politician in the 1710s and 1720s. Se held a salon in her Palace in Copenhagen, snd it was well known by foreign ambassadors that she was one of the greatest powerholders during the riegn of Frederick IV of Denmark and that it was important to have her liking.

In 1730, Fredrick IV died and his son banned Anne Sophie reventlov from court and fired Holstien's husband. Holstein lost all power and spent the rest of her life with her family.