See also:CHRISTIAN VII
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(1749-1808), See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Denmark and See also:Norway, was the son of See also:Frederick V., king of Denmark, and his first See also:consort Louisa, daughter of See also:George II. of See also:Great See also:Britain
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He became king on his See also:father's See also:death on the 14th of See also:January 1766
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All the earlier accounts agree that he had a winning See also:personality and considerable See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent, but he was badly educated, systematic-ally terrorized by a brutal See also:governor and hopelessly debauched by corrupt pages, and See also:grew up a semi-idiot
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After his See also:marriage in 1766 with See also:Caroline See also:Matilda (1751–1775), daughter of Frederick, See also:prince of See also:Wales, he abandoned himself to the worst excesses
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He ultimately sank into a See also:condition of See also:mental stupor, and became the obedient slave of the upstart See also:Struensee (q.v.)
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After the fall of Struensee (the See also:warrant for whose See also:arrest he signed with indifference), for the last six-and-twenty years of his reign, he was only nominally king
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He died on the'3th of See also:March '808
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In 1772 the king's marriage with Caroline Matilda, who had been seized and had confessed to criminal familiarity with Struensee, was dissolved, and the See also:queen, retaining her See also:title, passed her remaining days at See also:Celle, where she died on the 11th of May 1775
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See E
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S
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F
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Reverdil, Struensee et la tour de Copenhague, 1760-.1772 (See also:Paris, 1858) ; Danmarks Riges Historie, vol. v
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(See also:Copenhagen, 1897–1905) ; and for Caroline Matilda, See also:Sir F
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C
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L
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See also:Wraxall, See also:Life and Times of Queen Caroline Matilda (1864), and W
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H
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See also:Wilkins, A Queen of Tears (1904)
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