Prince Frederick Adolf of Sweden
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Prince Fredrick Adolf (July 18, 1750 - December 12, 1803 Montepllier, France), was a Swedish Prince, youngest son of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden and Queen Louisa Ulrika of Prussia. He was given the title Duke of Östergötland.
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The Duke was described as "The most beautiful Prince in Europe". He was sensitive, passive and spoiled by his mother. He and his sister, Sophie Albertine, was their mothers favourites and also devoted to each other; during family conflicts, him and his sister was on their mother's side. As a child, he had a weak health and a fierce temperament. His education became somewhat lacking. He was given the title colonel at twelve and general major at eighteen, but this was just titles. He took part in the revolution 1772 but soon became a part of the oposition against his brother.
His sister-in-law, Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, describes him as beautiful, with expressive eyes, an easy going temper and very handsome when he dresses properly, though often badly dressed in his private life, and she adds that he would have been a greater social success, if he did not say so many suggestive things and had such a filthy mouth, which he got because he had spent too much time with men, and had such a weakness for women and sex.
He had no task in his life other than the ceremonial, and spent his life wasting money and involving himself in love affairs, among them with the actress Euphrosyne Löf, sister of the great prima donna Fredrique Löwen, and Countess Sophie von Fersen, sister of Axel von Fersen, the lover of Marie Antoinette.
Prince Fredrick Adolf was never married, and the ceremonial duties of his consort were performed by his sister Sofia Albertina, Princess of Sweden, but he lived for several years, from 1778 to 1795, with the dancer Sophie Hagman and had a daughter, Sophia Frederica, with her.
He died in Montpellier in France in 1803.
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[edit] References
- Invgar Andersson, Gustavianskt.
- Herman Linqvist, Historien om Sverige, Gustavs dagar.
