Excerpt from Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 3 of 3: Queen of Denmark and Norway, and Sister of H. M. George III of England, From Family Documents and Private State Archives

The Indictment - Brandt at Court The Assault on the King - The King's Deposition - The Queen and Struensee - Duty of a Good Citizen - The Confidant - The Alleged Forgery - The Sentence Proposed - The Defence - The King at Home - Duties of the Favourite - A Man of Courage - The Royal Gift - Brandt's Letter to his Judges - A Modest Request - Hurried Proceedings, Struensee's Sentence - His General Conduct - The Maître des Requetes - The German Language - Struensee's Despotism The Council of the Thirty-two - The Cabinet Minister - The King's Presents Struensee's Precautions - His Downfall - The Sentence Approved - Count Brandt - His Assault on the King - His Behaviour - The Royal Assent, Confirmation of the Sentence - Struensee's Correspondence - Rantzau's Treachery - An Unfeeling Court - Struensee's Penitence - The Scaffold - April 28 - Executive of Brandt - Enlightened Despotism - The First Servant of the State - The Queen Dowager

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