List of Swedish royal mistresses

"Mademoiselle Charlotte Eckerman" (1784) painted by Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller.

The following were mistresses of Swedish royal family members.

Medieval

• Jutta of Denmark (1246-1286/95), mistress of Valdemar
• 1464-1470: Kristina Abrahamsdotter (Finnish: Kristiina Abrahamintytär), mistress of Charles VIII before their marriage in 1470[1]

House of Vasa

Eric XIV of Sweden

• 1558-1561: Agda Persdotter
• 1561-1565: Karin Jacobsdotter
• 1565-1568: Karin Månsdotter, before their marriage in 1568

Others

• 1568-1573: Karin Hansdotter (Finnish: Kaarina Hannuntytär), mistress of John III of Sweden[2]
• 1568-1578: Karin Nilsdotter, mistress of Charles IX of Sweden
• 1615-1616: Margareta Slots, mistress of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden

House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken

• 1646-1647: Märta Allerts, mistress of Charles X Gustav of Sweden

Unlike most of their predecessors and successors, Charles XI and his son Charles XII are not known to have had mistresses.

House of Hesse: Frederick I of Sweden

• 1730-1743: Hedvig Taube
• 1745-1748: Catharina Ebba Horn

House of Holstein-Gottorp

• 1760-1765 : Marie Marguerite Morel, mistress of Adolf Frederick of Sweden.
• 1778-1793 : Sophie Hagman, mistress of Prince Frederick Adolf of Sweden
• Maria Schlegel, mistress of Gustav IV Adolf

Charles XIII of Sweden

• 1771-1778 : Augusta Fersen
• 1779-1781 : Charlotte Eckerman
• 1781-1783 : Françoise-Éléonore Villain
• 1777-1797 : Charlotte Slottsberg.[3]
• 1810-1818 : Mariana Koskull, also a mistresses of his successor Charles XIV John of Sweden 1811-1823

House of Bernadotte

Oscar I of Sweden

• 1819-1827: Jaquette Löwenhielm
• 1834-1840: Emilie Högquist

Charles XV of Sweden

• c. 1850: Laura Bergnéhr
• 1852-1860: Josephine Sparre
• 1858: Elise Hwasser
• 1860-1869: Johanna Styrell
• 1869-1872: Wilhelmine Schröder

Oscar II of Sweden

• 1880s: Marie Friberg
• Emma Elisabeth Hammarström

Alleged

• Kurt Haijby and Gustav V of Sweden
• Rosa Grunberg and Gustaf VI Adolf
• Camilla Henemark and Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden[4]

See also

• List of English royal mistresses
• List of Scottish royal mistresses
• Royal mistress

References

1. "Personakt för Kristina Abrahamsdotter, Född omkring 1432". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2016-06-09.
2. "Genos 21(1950), s. 34-43 (Sofia Gyllenhielms mödernehärstamning)". www.genealogia.fi. Archived from the original on 2001-11-07.
3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-09-27.
4. DN: Camilla Henemark: Jag var smått förälskad