1. Anna Ulrica Arfvidsson was a professional Swedish fortune-teller during the reign of Gustav III of Sweden.
21 Facts About Ulrica Arfvidsson
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Ulrica Arfvidsson grew up comfortably in an environment where she heard many rumours and gossip of the higher circles in society.
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Ulrica Arfvidsson became well-informed about things which many people outside of the court would like to know.
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Ulrica Arfvidsson is described as an intelligent, with a sharp talent, well-developed intuition, and always very up-to-date about everything in society.
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Ulrica Arfvidsson had her business at Lastmakargatan not far from Johannis Church in Stockholm, hidden away in an alley where mainly poor people, such as "blind and crippled women" lived, in order for her customers to come to her discreetly.
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Reportedly, Ulrica Arfvidsson had a wide net of informers from all over society, reaching from the royal household to private homes.
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Ulrica Arfvidsson was said to have been an informer of the police, and members of the royal house asked her for political advice, such as the future King Charles XIII of Sweden.
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Ulrica Arfvidsson was consulted by Gustav III, duke Charles and other influential people during the Russo-Swedish War.
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In 1790, the chief of police Henrik Liljensparre cautioned her to discontinue her fortune telling, Liljensparre was ordered by the monarch to allow Ulrica Arfvidsson to continue her trade.
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Ulrica Arfvidsson is perhaps the most famous fortune-teller in Swedish history.
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Ulrica Arfvidsson is mentioned in many contemporary memoirs and diary notes.
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Ulrica Arfvidsson looked into the coffee, revealed their identities, and stated that Ehrensvard would replace af Trolle in his position.
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In 1786, Ulrica Arfvidsson was consulted by King Gustav III of Sweden in disguise, who came to her in the company of Count Jacob De la Gardie posing as someone else.
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Ulrica Arfvidsson presented several predictions about his past and his future, as well as that of his escort.
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Ulrica Arfvidsson warned the King: Beware of the man with a sword you will meet this evening, for he aspires to take your life.
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In 1792, Ulrica Arfvidsson was consulted in connection to the conspiracy of Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, who conspired to depose the guardian government of King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden by an alliance with Russia.
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Ulrica Arfvidsson consulted her coffee leaves and stated that the man of whom Rudenschold was thinking had recently left the country in anger over a child and a small man, whom he would soon scare by an agreement with a woman with a non-royal crown on her head.
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Ulrica Arfvidsson predicted that Armfelt risked to be revealed by the loss of a letter, which would be his ruin.
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Ulrica Arfvidsson is a character in Daniel Auber's opera Gustave III, ou Le bal masque, which used a libretto by French playwright Eugene Scribe.
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Ulrica Arfvidsson is mentioned in the famed novel The Queen's Tiara by Carl Jonas Love Almquist.
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Ulrica Arfvidsson is the basis for Sofia Sparrow in The Stockholm Octavo.