3-039-140 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Queen of Sweden, 1871. 'The late Queen, Wilhelmina Frederica Alexandria Anna Louisa, Princess of Orange, and Queen Consort to King Charles XV. of Sweden and Norway, was a daughter of Prince William Frederick of the Netherlands, who is uncle to the King of Holland. She was born Aug. 5, 1828, and married in June, 1850. Her Majesty was much esteemed and beloved in Sweden, as a good wife and mother and a gracious Queen...It may also be remarked that the Queen was an author of some repute, having, under the nom do plume of "Jane Voncome," published in Swedish a translation of an English work called "The Labourers in the Vineyard," of which the profits were devoted to charitable purposes'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.