Elisabet von Eyben

Elisabet von Eyben (1745–1780), was a Danish courtier, lady in waiting to the queen consort of Denmark, Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, from 1766 until 1771.

The letter writer Luise Gramm accused her of being a bad influence upon the queen: it was she who convinced her to ride astride in male attire and dance and flirt alongside Anna Sofie Bülow, Christine Sophie von Gähler and Johanne Marie Malleville.

[2] Elisabet von Eyben was accused to have convinced the queen to accept treatment by Struensee when he was recommended to her by the king.

[1] She stated that she had witnessed how the queen left a masked ball in January 1770 and made a long visit alone in the room of Struensee.

[1] When Caroline Matilda told Struensee, he advised her to confess to the maids and then bribe them, but she refused, and instead choose Elisabet von Eyben to be her confidante in the affair.