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Catharina De la Gardie became one of the most known of these female figures in the political life of the early Age of Liberty. During the 1730s, she was a well-known public figure, her salon being a center of the Hats Party, and she wore ribbons signalling her political sympathies. In 1731,
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to agree to become the king's mistress: their task was to convince Taube's mother to agree, which they apparently succeeded in doing. Taube became an effective method of the Hats to apply pressure to the king. In 1734, when Hedvig Taube was made an official royal mistress and her relationship
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politicians, and libellous pamphlets circulated accusing her of allowing her love affairs to affect her political sympathies. Among them were the rumor planted by
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as "Fru Kättia Sällskapslik" (Mrs Lusty
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