Juliane Wedel Jarlsberg
Juliane Cathrine Wilhelmine Wedel Jarlsberg was a Norwegian court official. She served as the overhoffmesterinne for Queen Louise of Norway.
Life
She was the daughter of Norwegian baron Ferdinand Carl Maria Wedel-Jarlsberg and Juliane Wilhelmine von Benzon. In 1851, she married the Norwegian nobleman Frederik (Fritz) Joachim Wedel Jarlsberg. She was the mother of Fritz Wedel Jarlsberg.Her parents served at the Norwegian court, where her father was head of the court of king Oscar I and her mother as statsfru to queen mother Désirée Clary.
Prior to her marriage, Juliane Wedel Jarlsberg served as hoffrøken to queen Josephine of Sweden and Norway under Fanny Løvenskiold. After her marriage, she was appointed overhoffmesterinne or principal lady-in-waiting to Queen Louise of Norway, who became queen in 1859. Her spouse was in parallel appointed be the hoffmarskalk of the spouse of queen Louise, king Charles IV of Norway.
During the Union of Sweden and Norway, the royal family mainly stayed in Sweden, and the Norwegian court staff served during their visits in Norway: during their visits in Norway, the royal family left their Swedish entourage at the border and was welcomed by their Norwegian court staff, and turned over their duties to their Swedish equivalents, and she thus shared her duties with her Swedish equivalent Wilhelmina Bonde in this fashion.
The queen's Norwegian household was however much smaller than her Swedish household: in 1869, Juliane Wedel Jarlsberg's Swedish equivalent Wilhelmina Bonde had three married ladies-in-waiting and three maids-of-honour under her, while Juliane Wedel Jarlsberg had only one statsfru and one maid-of-honour.