She wears a spectacular robe allemande. Her sleeves begin as pagoda sleeves with engageantes from which emerges another sleeve. The black throat band adorned with jewels and girandole earrings were fashionable. Diamonds have replaced pearls as the most popular jewels for well-heeled ladies.*** Louisa Ulrika of Prussia (Swedish: Lovisa Ulrika; German: Luise Ulrike) (1720 - 1782) was Queen consort of Sweden between 1751 and 1771. She was the daughter of Frederick William I of Prussia and his wife Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, and younger sister of both Wilhelmine of Bayreuth and Frederick the Great. Ulrika married Adolf Friedrich von Holstein-Gottorp in 1744. He had been elected crown prince of Sweden in 1743 and after his succession to the throne in 1751 reigned as King Adolf Frederick of Sweden. Lovisa Ulrika was received with great enthusiasm in Sweden in hope of solving the country's succession problems, and gained popularity with her beauty and by the birth of her children (no children had been born in the Swedish royal house in over fifty years). When she became queen, Lovisa Ulrika revitalized the royal court, which had been neglected during the reign of King Frederick I, and founded a theater at Drottningholm Palace. Her interest for theater was, however, entirely French-influenced, and she interupted the development of a native Swedish theater at Bollhuset. Queen Louisa Ulrika strongly dominated her husband and the court. She would also had been the real ruler during her husband's reign if the Swedish monarchy had not been stripped of its power in 1718 and 1720; at this point, the king was a mere decoration and Sweden was a monarchy in name only. This greatly displeased the queen, herself born in an absolute monarchy, and she gathered followers to plan a coup d'etat to overthrow the government and reinstate absolute monarchy in Sweden. The coup was to take place in 1756, but the plan was discovered, the queen was reprimanded by the government, and her followers executed. Nevertheless, she remained a dominant figure, with numerous quarrels with the government over the years. In 1763, the government asked her to write to her brother the King of Prussia in to prevent the Swedish province of Pomerania in Germany from being annexed by Prussia after the Seven Years War. She succeeded in this. In Sweden, she is mainly remembered for the founding of the Witterhetsakademin, an academy which counted Carl von Linne (the inventor of the biological naming convention still in use, (e.g. - Homo sapiens and Tyrannosaurus rex) among its members. She was a great patron of science and art, a protector of the work of scientists and artists.

Her flaring engageantes emerge from square-cut cuffs that go with her square-cut neckline. She wears a bodice with stomacher panel.*** Infanta Maria Antonietta of Spain (November 17, 1729 - September 19, 1785), was Queen of Sardinia as the wife of King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia. Maria Antonietta was born at Seville, the youngest daughter of King Philip V of Spain and of his wife, Elizabeth Farnese. On May 31, 1750, at Oulx near Turin, Maria Antonietta married Prince Victor Amadeus of Savoy (later King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia). The couple had twelve children: 1) King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (1751-1819), married Marie Clotilde of France; 2) Maria Elisabetta Carlotta (1752-1753); 3) Marie Josephine Louise (1753-1810), married King Louis XVIII of France and was Comtesse de Provence; 4) Amedeo Alessandro, Duke of Montferrat (1754-1755); 5) Maria Thérèse (1756-1805), married King Charles X of France 6) Maria Anna (1757-1824), married her uncle Benedetto, Prince of Savoy, Duke of Chablais; 7) King Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia (1759-1824), married Archduchess Maria Teresa of Austria-Este (1773-1832); 8) Maria Cristina Giuseppa Ferdinanda (1760-1768) 9) Maurizio Giuseppe Maria, Duke of Montferrat (1762-1799), unmarried; 10) Maria Carolina Antonietta Adelaide (1764-1782), married King Anthony of Saxony; 11) King Charles Felix of Sardinia (1765–1831), married Princess Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies (1779-1849); 12) Giuseppe Benedetto Maria Placido (1766-1802), Count of Moriana (until 1796) and Asti (1796-1802); Maria Antonietta died in the Castle of Moncalieri near Turin. She is buried in the Basilica of Superga.