Stories of persons and places in Europe . c country dance with the Queenbefore retiring, and she, after remaining a while longer, went also to herroom. ^ About four oclock in the morning the Queen dowager and her son Fred-erick entered the Kings sleeping room,*woke him and told him that theQueen and Count Struensee, the Prime Minister, were planning to take thekingdom away from him and that he must at once sign the papers whichthey had brought with them for the arrest of the guilty couple. Denmark. 97 The King refused at first to do this, but being very weak-minded yieldedat last to his mother
Stories of persons and places in Europe . c country dance with the Queenbefore retiring, and she, after remaining a while longer, went also to herroom. ^ About four oclock in the morning the Queen dowager and her son Fred-erick entered the Kings sleeping room,*woke him and told him that theQueen and Count Struensee, the Prime Minister, were planning to take thekingdom away from him and that he must at once sign the papers whichthey had brought with them for the arrest of the guilty couple. Denmark. 97 The King refused at first to do this, but being very weak-minded yieldedat last to his mother and signed the warrant, in tears, it is said. Officerswere sent at once to take the Queen. She was hurried into one of the Kings carriages and driven with all hasteto Cronborg Castle, where she was kept a close prisoner until her brotherin England heard of it and sent a fleet to release her and take her to Ger-many. In about a year after her release she died of grief. Since Shakespeares great tragedy of Hamlet came into existence, Cron-. ELSINORE borg Castle has been a place of interest to all English speaking people as thescene of the tradition upon which the play was founded. Outside of thecastle walls Hamlets garden is still pointed out as the place wherethe ghost is supposed to have appeared to tell Hamlet of his uncles the Dane.—One of the several legends connected with CronborgCastle is about Holger, the favorite Danish hero, who is said to be sleepingin one of the holds of the castle, waiting for the time when the Fatherlandshall stand in sorest need of his strong arm. Poor Denmark! says one, 11 ? 98 Persons and Places in Europe. if yet worse straits are to come upon her than those which have come anhave failed to rouse her sleeping hero. It is said that a slave who had forfeited his life was promised his libertyif he would go down into the holds of the castle and find out the cause o|the strange noises that sometimes came from those dim regions. Othersha
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