Frederick William, Prince von Hessenstein, was a Swedish statesman and a soldier of German ancestry.
Frederick William von Hessenstein
Princess Sophia Albertina of Sweden was the last Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg Abbey, and as such reigned as vassal monarch of the Holy Roman Empire.
Frederick William von Hessenstein
…1773, he was also made the first of the Lords of the Realm. According to unverified rumors, he might have been the father of an extramarital daughter by Princess Sofia Albertina, Gustav III's sister. Named Sophia, she was allegedly born in 1786, a year before the princess was sent to Germany as Abbess of Quedlinburg. Knight of…
Portrait by Alexander Roslin, c. 1775
Coronet (left) created for Sophia Albertina and worn at her brother Gustav's coronation in 1772.
Sophia Albertina is called just Royal Princess (with no nations given) in the government list of 1815.
Sophia Albertina of Sweden.