Luise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Luise Auguste Wilhelmine Amalie zu Mecklenburg-Strelitz (English: Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 1776-1810) was the wife of king Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia, and as such queen of Prussia. In Germany she is best-known as Königin Luise.

[edit] Portraits and Portrayals by Contemporaries

Princess Louise with sister Friederike. A famous sculpture by Johann Gottfried Schadow, 1797, marble	(2) "Prinzessinnengruppe", model, 1797	(3) Louise (left) and Friederike - detail	Portrait by Henriette-Felicité Tassaert, 1797
Portrait by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, 1798	Portrait by Nikolaus Lauer, 1798	Plaster relief by J.C.L. Bettkober, 1798	Portrait by Nikolaus Lauer, 1799
Portrait by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1801	Double portrait with Friedrich Wilhelm III	Portrait by Josef Grassi, 1804	With her family, by Heinrich Anton Dähling, 1806
Louise, Frederick William III, and Czar Alexander I at the sarcophagus of Frederick the Great, by Friedrich Georg Weitsch, 1806	Louise, Frederick William III, and Czar Alexander I at the sarcophagus of Frederick the Great, by Franz Catel, ca. 1806	Portrait by Marie-Guillemine Benoist, 1806	Portrait in a riding habit by Friedrich Wilhelm Ternite, 1809
Portrait in a riding habit by Friedrich Wilhelm Ternite, 1810

Portrait by Karl Wilhelm Wach, 1812	Louise with her two eldest sons, the later King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and the later Kaiser Wilhelm I, by Carl Steffeck, 1886	Louise in the park of Charlottenburg Palace, anonymous chromolithograph, 19th century	Louise flees Napoleon by traversing the Curonian Spit
Talleyrand, Napoleon, Czar Alexander I of Russia, Louise, and Friedrich Wilhelm III in Tilsit, 1807

Study for a neo-Gothic mausoleum for Louise by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1810	Neo-Gothic memorial in Gransee by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1811	Mausoleum in the garden of Charlottenburg Palace by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1811	Sarcophagus in Berlin, sculpted by Christian Daniel Rauch, 1812-14
(2)	Sarcophagus copy in Neustrelitz by Albert Wolff, 1892	Iron statue of Louise by Christian Daniel Rauch in the Nationaldenkmal auf dem Kreuzberg, 1820	Memorial on the Pfaueninsel, with original facade of the mausoleum at Charlottenburg Palace
Statue by Erdmann Encke in the Großer Tiergarten (Berlin) (still there, as replica)	Monument in Tilsit by Gustav Eberlein

Louise reminds one a bit of the hype around Lady Di - going on in Germany for 150 years. Examples from: Die Königin Luise in 50 Bildern für Jung und Alt, Berlin [1896]

Princess Louise and sister Friederike as children in the shade of old trees of the castle Broich	Little Louise reads a fairy tale for an ill youngster	The bride Louise kisses a young admirer. Her lady-in-waiting Sophie Marie Gräfin von Voss is shocked.	An afternoon with her family at the Pfaueninsel
Louise allows Colonel Köckeritz to smoke after the meal, because he is a very good friend of her husband.	Louise, the mother and musician	Louise receives Napoleon in Tilsit.	Queen Louise dies at Hohenzieritz Castle, 1810