JULIANA MARIA OF BRUNSWICK-WOLFENBüTTEL

'Juliana Maria of Brunswick', (1729-1796), ''(always called Juliane Marie)'', was queen of Denmark between 1752 and 1766, second consort of king Frederick V of Denmark and Norway, mother of the prince-regent Hereditary Prince Frederick of Denmark and Norway and herself de facto regent 1772-1784.
Born as daughter of Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Antoinette of of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, she became the second consort and queen to king Frederick V of Denmark in 1752, one year after the death of his first consort Louise of Great Britain.
As a queen, she lived a quiet life. She became more important as a dowager queen. In 1766, she became a widow. In 1770, the new king, her step-son king Christian VII of Denmark, had became insane and the power had fallen in the hands of his consort Caroline Matilda of Wales and her lover Struensee. They had a liberal politics and issued a row of democratic laws that rased the opposition ot the nobility. Juliane Marie then became the center of the opposition, and she was one of the group that participated in the coup d'etat that brought down the governement of Struensee by exposing his affair with the queen. In 1772, Struensee was executed and queen Caroline Mathilda was exiled.
The son of Juliane Marie, Heredity prince Frederick, was now made regent. In reality, he was the puppet of his mother, who was the real and undisputed ruler during his regency. Her governement was one of extreme conservatism. She sawed the priviliges of the nobility and was regarded as the hero of the aristocraty and the sawior of their privilegies.
In 1784, she and her son was deprived of their regency by the crown prince, King Frederick VI of Denmark.