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Eleanora Ulfeld.
natural curiosity , the Countess Eleanora went to the jeweller's to see it . So did probably many another lady , to whom no harm happened . But the Countess Eleanora was so near the throne , that she felt as a privileged person in all pertaining to it , and raising the gorgeous crown , placed it on her own fair head . Perhaps a moment of gratified vanity at seeing how well
it became her caused a too hasty movement—perhaps her hand trembled at the thought of a father , who , with all his faults , ivas devoted to her , —if thc first , it was severely punished ; if the latter , one sad moment was the cause of many others : be it as it may , for once in her life Eleanora was awkward—the crown fell to the groundand one fine jew : el was shattered . The
, jeweller related the fact to the queen , who never either forgot or forgave it . Some time after this , Corfitz was an ambassador , Charles II . of England Avas an exile , and in deep poverty . The Dane supplied , him with money , and he acknowledged the debt in a Latin
epistle to his royal kinsman Frederick III ., written many years after , dated Colonife Agrippinse , 11 th November , 1655 . We shall see how this was repaid . The Countess Eleanora brought her husband ten children , and harmony ancl love seem ever to have existed between them . His old brother-page ancl boy-rival was now become his
brother-inlaw , haiing married a sister of Eleanora's ; but his enmity was as strong as ever . A wild accusation was brought against Corfitz of endeavouring to poison the king . It was supported by the testimony of a wretched woman , who accused him at the same time of infidelity to his wife—an accusation that Eleanora herselfwith aU her servantswere able to disprove . The woman
, , ivas convicted of perjury , and punished accordingly , ancl Corfitz Avas rash enough to seek the influence of the SAvedish king to support him in Denmark . How long would M . Guizot remain in office if Queen Victoria ' s influence Avere openly exerted to maintain him there ? The support of Sweden injured Count Ulfeld ' s cause more than all his enemies in Denmark . The
Danish nobles were at that time so powerful , ancl stood so stiffly on their rights , privileges , and exemption from taxes , that they were daily becoming more obnoxious both to the king ancl commons ; and some years later ( 1660 ) , an unparalleled revolution took place , in which the clergy and people united in declaring the crown hereditary and absolutethus enabling the
, sovereign to bring his refractory nobility into order . You may imagine , therefore , that so haughty a man as Corfitz , of so high a caste , and so determined a prince as Frederick III ., with so spiteful a queen at his elbow , were not likely to continue at peace very
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Eleanora Ulfeld.
natural curiosity , the Countess Eleanora went to the jeweller's to see it . So did probably many another lady , to whom no harm happened . But the Countess Eleanora was so near the throne , that she felt as a privileged person in all pertaining to it , and raising the gorgeous crown , placed it on her own fair head . Perhaps a moment of gratified vanity at seeing how well
it became her caused a too hasty movement—perhaps her hand trembled at the thought of a father , who , with all his faults , ivas devoted to her , —if thc first , it was severely punished ; if the latter , one sad moment was the cause of many others : be it as it may , for once in her life Eleanora was awkward—the crown fell to the groundand one fine jew : el was shattered . The
, jeweller related the fact to the queen , who never either forgot or forgave it . Some time after this , Corfitz was an ambassador , Charles II . of England Avas an exile , and in deep poverty . The Dane supplied , him with money , and he acknowledged the debt in a Latin
epistle to his royal kinsman Frederick III ., written many years after , dated Colonife Agrippinse , 11 th November , 1655 . We shall see how this was repaid . The Countess Eleanora brought her husband ten children , and harmony ancl love seem ever to have existed between them . His old brother-page ancl boy-rival was now become his
brother-inlaw , haiing married a sister of Eleanora's ; but his enmity was as strong as ever . A wild accusation was brought against Corfitz of endeavouring to poison the king . It was supported by the testimony of a wretched woman , who accused him at the same time of infidelity to his wife—an accusation that Eleanora herselfwith aU her servantswere able to disprove . The woman
, , ivas convicted of perjury , and punished accordingly , ancl Corfitz Avas rash enough to seek the influence of the SAvedish king to support him in Denmark . How long would M . Guizot remain in office if Queen Victoria ' s influence Avere openly exerted to maintain him there ? The support of Sweden injured Count Ulfeld ' s cause more than all his enemies in Denmark . The
Danish nobles were at that time so powerful , ancl stood so stiffly on their rights , privileges , and exemption from taxes , that they were daily becoming more obnoxious both to the king ancl commons ; and some years later ( 1660 ) , an unparalleled revolution took place , in which the clergy and people united in declaring the crown hereditary and absolutethus enabling the
, sovereign to bring his refractory nobility into order . You may imagine , therefore , that so haughty a man as Corfitz , of so high a caste , and so determined a prince as Frederick III ., with so spiteful a queen at his elbow , were not likely to continue at peace very