Note 102 — BOOK VIII[61]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Wilhelmina Rietz, Countess von Lichtenau (1754-1820), née Enke, daughter of a musician of the Prussian Chapel Royal. At sixteen, she became the mistress of the Crown Prince, nephew of Frederic II., who married her to one of his footmen, called Rietz, and who became king in 1786 as Frederic William II., when he gave her the title of Countess von Lichtenau.—B.