Sophie Piper

Eva Sophie Piper (* March 30, 1757; † February 2nd 1816 Castle Löfstad ), born of heels, was the daughter of country Marshal Fredrik Axel von Fersen and sister Axel von Fersen the Younger.

Sophie was one of the beauties at the court of Gustav III. from Sweden and got a marriage proposal from Duke Fredrik Adolf, the younger brother of the king and the number two in the line of succession. However, your father forbade the marriage because he did not want a bond to his influential family to the throne. As the historian specialized in gossip Cruse Stolpe narrated Sophie personally found no pleasure in Duke Fredrik Adolf to whose mental abilities as limited.

1777 married Sophie von Fersen the Chamberlain Adolf Ludwig Piper, whose family as the Fersens originally from Northern Germany.

In 1786, Sophie Piper governess of the Duchess, and later Queen Hedwig, Sweden Hedvig Elisabet Charlotta known as. She was the closest friend of the Duchess that an extensive, historically interesting correspondence ( misleading known as a " diary " ) addressed to her.

Sophie Piper was also the closest confidante of her brother Axel, who is known as a favorite and possible lover of French Queen Marie Antoinette in the German language area. The correspondence between Axel and Sophie are numerous references to the relationship Axel von Fersen to Marie Antoinette. For the sake of caution, Marie Antoinette is not mentioned by name, but either as "Elle" (you), or referred to as " Josephine ". The Swedish historian Alma Söderhjelm has demonstrated that this is code name for the French queen.

Like her brother, Axel got Sophie Piper in 1810 under the false suspicion of having to do with the death of the Crown Prince Karl August. While her brother was murdered on 20 June 1810 by an angry mob in the street, Sophie managed to escape. She spent her final years at Castle Löfstad near Norrköping.

Source

  • Lexicon entry in Nordisk familjebok (1876-1926) ( Swedish)
  • Svenskt biografiskt hand encyclopedia
  • Gentlewoman
  • Swede
  • Born in 1757
  • Died in 1816
  • Woman
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