Enligt nedanstående text från Ernst Wilhelm Olson. The Swedish element in Illinois : survey of the past seven decades : with life sketches of men of today. (page 38 of 63) (ebooks på nätet) finns följande historia, där det menas att det är Benedicta Udd som är barnbarn till Adolf Fredrik via dottern Sofia Albertina.
mvh Katarina
FREDERICK CORNELIUS DE
LANG
has a more romantic and fascinat-
ing family history than it has been
our privilege to record for a long
time. It is not often we find
among the immigrants from the old
world to the new persons who are
lineal descendants from a reigning
dynasty, but Mr. De Lang can point
to a real princess as his great-
grandmother and his great-great-
grandniother was Queen Louisa
Ulrica, a sister of Friedrich IT. of
Prussia, who was married to King
Adolph Fredrik of Sweden. Her
daughter. Princess Sophia Alber-
tina, and sister of Gustavus III,
was the favorite child of Louisa
Ulrica. She was a gentle and amia-
ble daughter and loved by all who
came in contact with her. Many
princely suitors sought her hand,
but she refused them all and said
that she would rather lose her
rank than marry a man she could
not love. lier great sorrow was
the rigid refusal of her brother to
consent to her marriage to the man
she loved, Peter Friedrich Ludwig,
a young duke of Holstein. But in
spite of her brother's opposition,
she entered a morganatic alliance
with him. Their child, born 1792,
was christened Benedicta Udd.
Just as Princess Sophia Albertina
after her marriage had led a quiet,
uneventful life, so Benedicta Udd
had no connection whatever with
the new court. She was married to
Charles Gustav Engstrom of Stock-
holm and had two sons and one
daughter, Mrs. De Lang, the moth-
er of the subject of this sketch.
She left a comfortable home in
Stockholm and all the luxuries the
young society ladies were accus-
tomed to for poverty and hard-
ships in a new land. Her hand was
sought by one Anton Cornelius De
Lang, the son of a French army
officer, who had been in Napoleon's
army and finally settled in Stock-
holm. Young Anton , always in
search of adventure, had run away
to sea and joined the U. S. navy in
1846. He served through the Mex-
ican War and later crossed Pan-
ama on foot together with C. M.