Eva Löwen

Another female agent was Christina Sofia Bielke, the mother of Magdalena Rudenschöld: women were often financed to hold salons to benefit French interests.

Eva Löwen was a leading figure of Stockholm aristocratic and royal society life, described as a celebrated beauty, the capital's “Queen of fashion” and talked about for her love adventures.

[3] In 1767, she became the subject of a scandal when her spouse, after having been told by a footman, returned home to find her with her lover, the French envoy Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, who was forced to bribe the servants to be able to flee the scene.

[1] Count Claes Julius Ekeblad described the affair between Eva Löwen and Axel von Fersen the Younger to Brita Horn in 1774: "He loves her passionately.

"[1] In 1788, her son Adolph Ribbing fall out of favor with the monarch because of a scandalous duel with Hans Henric von Essen, and came to belong to the opposition of the king.