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In 1791, he was discovered creating forged [[bank note|notes]] on [[Drottningholm Palace]], [[abettor|abetting]] Charles Appelkvist. After the death of the king in 1792, Count Munck af Fulkila was forced to leave Sweden. He was [[ennoblement|ennobled]] as a [[Count]] in the [[Duchy of Parma and Piacenza]] in 1816. |
In 1791, he was discovered creating forged [[bank note|notes]] on [[Drottningholm Palace]], [[abettor|abetting]] Charles Appelkvist. After the death of the king in 1792, Count Munck af Fulkila was forced to leave Sweden. He was [[ennoblement|ennobled]] as a [[Count]] in the [[Duchy of Parma and Piacenza]] in 1816. |
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Adolf Fredrik, Count Munck af Fulkila (Rantasalmi, Finland, 28 April 1749 – Massa-Carrara, Italy, 13 July 1831) was a Swedish and Finnish nobleman alleged to have been the true father of King Gustaf IV Adolf.
Biography
Adolf Fredrik Munck was born to Anders Erik Munck af Fulkila (1720 Skaraborg - 4 September 1779) and Hedvig Juliana Wright (1729 - Lojo 30 December 1808), whom he had wed at St. Michels sn, 15 November 1747.
He entered the Swedish royal court, where he became a close friend of the king, Gustaf III. Munck became notorious for his love affairs. Among his lovers were Anna Sofia Ramström, an employee of the queen. In 1775, he was reputedly hired by the king to assist him in the consummation of his marriage with Queen Sophie Magdalena; he was to act as sexual instructor for the couple.
His "aid" is alleged to have resulted in the birth of the future King Gustaf IV Adolf in 1778. Munck was believed to have been rewarded by both the king and the queen for his support. He received a portrait of the queen by herself set in diamonds. He was appointed Master of the Horse (Riksstallmästare), knight and governor of the Royal Order of the Seraphim. He was created Baron (Friherre) Munck af Fulkila on 27 December 1778 (introduced in registry of the nobility in 1788, under nr 309), and finally Count Greve Munck af Fulkila on 4 July 1788 (introduced 16 May 1789 under nr 103). In 1787, the queen deposited a sum of 50,000 kronor [1] in an account for Munck, which was seen as a "farewell gift"; at that point, he had started an affair with a ballerina whom the queen felt a great dislike to. The king was terrified when he heard of this and tried to keep it a secret.
These favors resulted in a great scandal when they became known. Munck was widely spoken of as the lover of the king and the queen. Moreover, he was rumored to be the birth father of Gustaf IV Adolf.
These allegations had long going consequences: after Gustaf IV Adolf was deposed in 1809, the Gustavian party tried to get his son Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden accepted as crown prince in 1809 and 1810, but were unsuccessful. Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp was one of the leading people of the Gustavian party. She often visited ex-queen Frederica in her house arrest and worked for prince Gustav to be acknowledged as heir to the throne. She wrote of this issue in her diaries: curing a dinner, General Georg Adlersparre told her, that Jean Baptiste Bernadotte had asked whether she had any issue, and was interested when he found she had not. She said that the throne already had an heir in the deposed King's son. Adlersparre became upset and expressed the opinion of his party, that no one of the instigators of the coup would accept this, as they feared that the boy would revenge against them when he became King, and that they would go as far as take up the old rumour that the deposed King was in fact illegitimate and the son of Queen Sophia Magdalena and Count Adolf Fredrik Munck af Fulkila to prevent this[2]. The affair was also inspired literature: it was part of the plot in Carl Jonas Love Almquist's Drottningens juvelsmycke, the first historical novel written in Swedish.
In 1791, he was discovered creating forged notes on Drottningholm Palace, abetting Charles Appelkvist. After the death of the king in 1792, Count Munck af Fulkila was forced to leave Sweden. He was ennobled as a Count in the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza in 1816.
External links
References
- ^ * Cecilia af Klercker (översättning och redigering) (1942). Hedvig Elisabeth Charlottas dagbok IX (The diaries of Hedvig Elizabeth Charlotte) (in Swedish). P.A. Norstedt & Söners förlag. ISBN 412070.
- ^ Cecilia af Klercker (1903). Hedvig Elisabeth Charlottas dagbok IX 1807-1811 (The diaries of Hedvig Elizabeth Charlotte II) (in Swedish). P.A. Norstedt & Söners förlag. ISBN 412070.
- Herman Lindqvist: Historien om Sverige. Gustavs dagar (History of Sweden. The days of Gustav) (Template:Sv icon)
- Alf Henrikson (1993). Svensk historia (Swedish history) Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag. ISBN 91-0-047053-8.
- Cecilia af Klercker (översättning och redigering) (1942) (in Swedish). Hedvig Elisabeth Charlottas dagbok IX (The diaries of Hedvig Elizabeth Charlotte). P.A. Norstedt & Söners förlag. ISBN 412070.