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LOUISE [AUGUSTE WILHELMINE AMALIE LUISE] (1776-1810)  , See also:queen of See also:Prussia, was See also:born on the loth of See also:March 1776 in See also:Hanover, where her See also:father, See also:Prince See also:Charles of See also:Mecklenburg-See also:Strelitz, was See also:field-See also:marshal of the See also:household See also:brigade . Her See also:mother was a princess of See also:Hesse-See also:Darmstadt . In 1793 See also:Louise met at See also:Frankfort the See also:crown prince of Prussia, afterwards See also:King See also:Frederick See also:William III., who was so fascinated by her beauty, and by the nobleness of her See also:character, that he asked her to become his wife . They were married on the 24th of See also:December of the same See also:year . As queen of Prussia she commanded universal respect and See also:affection, and nothing in Prussian See also:history is more pathetic than the dignity and unflinching courage with which she See also:bore the sufferings inflicted on her and her See also:family during the See also:war between Prussia and See also:France . After the See also:battle of See also:Jena she went with her See also:husband to See also:Konigsberg, and when the battles of See also:Eylau and See also:Friedland had placed Prussia absolutely at the See also:mercy of France, she made a See also:personal See also:appeal to See also:Napoleon at his headquarters in See also:Tilsit, but without success . See also:Early in 18o8 she accompanied the king from See also:Memel to Konigsberg, whence, towards the end of the year, she visited St See also:Petersburg, returning to See also:Berlin on the 23rd of December 1809 . During the war Napoleon attempted. to destroy the queen's reputation, but the only effect of his charges in Prussia was to make her more deeply beloved . On the 19th of See also:July 1810 she died in her husband's arms, while visiting her father in Strelitz . She was buried in the See also:garden of the See also:palace at See also:Charlottenburg, where a See also:mausoleum, containing a See also:fine recumbent statue by See also:Rauch, was built over her See also:grave . In 1840 her husband was buried by her See also:side . The Louise See also:Foundation (Luisenstift) for the See also:education of girls was established in her See also:honour, and in 1814 Frederick William III. instituted the See also:Order of Louise (Luisenorden) .

In 188o a statue of Queen Louise was erected in the Thiergarten at Berlin . See F . Adami, Luise, Konigin von Preussen (7th ed., 1875) ; E . See also:

Engel, Konigin Luise (1876); A . Kluckhohn, Luise, Konigin von Preussen (1876) ; See also:Mommsen and See also:Treitschke, Konigin Luise (1876); in See also:English, See also:Hudson, See also:Life and Times of Louisa, Queen of Prussia (1874); G . See also:Horn, Das See also:Buch von der Koni in Luise (Berlin, 1883); A . Lonke, Konigin Luise von Preussen (See also:Leipzig, 1903) ; H. von Petersdorff, Konigin Luise," Frauenleben, Bd. i . (See also:Bielefeld, 1903, 2nd ed., 1904) .

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