Anna Sofia Ramström

[1] In the negotiations, Ramström took the role of the Queen’s confidante and messenger, while Count Adolf Fredrik Munck af Fulkila played the same part for the King.

Initially, Maria Aurora Uggla had been considered for the task, but Munck and Ramström was decided upon as they were lovers at the time.

Munck himself writes in his written account, which is preserved at the National Archives of Sweden, that in order to succeed, he was obliged to touch them both physically.

[3] These became the subject of accusations from the political opposition, as late as in 1786 and 1789,[9] where it was claimed that the whole nation was aware of the rumour that the King had asked Munck to make the Queen pregnant.

[15] Another version, however, claim that she poisoned herself accidentally after having taken a medicine to perform an abortion[15] Ramström never married, but had three children with Adolf Fredrik Munck.