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Louise of Denmark and Norway
Portrait byJohann Salomon Wahl, before 1756
Duchess consort of Saxe-Hildburghausen
Tenure	1 October 1749 – 8 August 1756
Born	(1726-10-19)19 October 1726 Copenhagen
Died	8 August 1756(1756-08-08) (aged 29) Hildburghausen
Spouse	Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen ​ ​ (m. 1749)​
Issue	Princess Frederica Sophie
House	Oldenburg
Father	Christian VI of Denmark
Mother	Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
Religion	Lutheranism

Louise of Denmark and Norway (19 October 1726 – 8 August 1756) was a Danish and Norwegian princess, the daughter of KingChristian VI of Denmark and his wifeSophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. Following her marriage toErnest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, she became Duchess ofSaxe-Hildburghausen.

Louise was described by foreign diplomats as a lively person, not well suited to the rigid and religious court of her parents. The relations between her and her parents were not good because of their differing personalities. She disliked the strict customs at court; her father complained about her "rebellious nature" in a letter to his friend Count Christian Günther Stolberg. Louise's name is recorded to have played a major role in the delicate diplomatic game that was driven in Christian VI's final years.

Initially attentions were drawn to get her married soon withGeorge II of Great Britain's younger son, theDuke of Cumberland but this plan were abandoned following Christian VI's attempt to make her Queen of Sweden during the election of the heir to the vacant Swedish throne in 1742–43 through an engagement with the Prince of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld who acted as France's candidate or the prince of Mecklenburg who were also considered as a suitable option. However, none of these plans came to fruition, amidst the tension between the Danish-Norwegian state and Sweden, Holstein-Gottorp's candidateAdolf Frederick got elected King in 1743 by the Swedish Riksdag, it was a serious topic that a marriage between her and Adolf Frederick would be conducive to an alliance between the two kingdoms, but it was stranded on Christian VI's unwise unwillingness to see his daughter married to a Gottorpian prince.

Under her brotherFrederick V's reign in 1749, Louise had an affair—and possibly a child—with avalet de chambre from the noble Danish familyAhlefeldt, who was afterwards sentenced to imprisonment for his audacity inMunkholm Fortress in Norway. Later that year, she was hastily married toErnest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, with a large dowry to hasten the wedding and calm down the scandal. They married in theHirschholm Palace, north of Copenhagen, on 1 October 1749.

As duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen, she hosted a court known for its formal etiquette, great costs and many parties; she was described as proud and with "royal expenses" in her way of living, amusing herself with ballets, masquerades, balls, hunting and gambling, driving through the streets with a carriage (or, in winters, with a sleigh) of gold and silver.

In December 1755 she gave birth to a daughter, who died after a month: Princess Frederica Sophie Juliane Caroline (5 December 1755 – 10 January 1756).

Louise died on 8 August 1756, she was only 29 years old.

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  Princess Louise as a child
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  Miniature of the princess inspired by a portrait painted around the time of her marriage

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