Beata Charlotta "Charlotte" Eckerman (1759 â€" 16 January 1790 in
Stockholm), was a Swedish opera singer and actress. She was also a
very well known courtesan during the Gustavian era, and the official
royal mistress of Charles XIII of Sweden from 1779 to 1781.Charlotte
Eckerman was the daughter of Bengt Edvard Eckerman, cavalry captain of
the Royal Scanian Husars, and the writer Catharina Ahlgren. Her father
was the cousin of Carl Fredrik Ekerman, speaker of the burghers in the
Swedish parliament, and her mother was at one point the kammarfru of
the queen, Louisa Ulrika of Prussia.In the custody of her father after
her parents divorce, she was described as more or less an orphan. She
had two brothers and a sister, as well as several halfsiblings by her
fathers second marriage and by her mother. She and her sister did not
get along with their stepmother, and appears to have moved from home
early on. Her sister Julie Eckerman (1765â€"1801) was also a courtesan
and the mistress of nobleman count Carl Sparre, governor of
Stockholm.Charlotta Eckerman was engaged at the Stenborg Company in
1774, and as a singer at the Royal Swedish Opera in Bollhuset in
Stockholm in 1776â€"81.
Stockholm), was a Swedish opera singer and actress. She was also a
very well known courtesan during the Gustavian era, and the official
royal mistress of Charles XIII of Sweden from 1779 to 1781.Charlotte
Eckerman was the daughter of Bengt Edvard Eckerman, cavalry captain of
the Royal Scanian Husars, and the writer Catharina Ahlgren. Her father
was the cousin of Carl Fredrik Ekerman, speaker of the burghers in the
Swedish parliament, and her mother was at one point the kammarfru of
the queen, Louisa Ulrika of Prussia.In the custody of her father after
her parents divorce, she was described as more or less an orphan. She
had two brothers and a sister, as well as several halfsiblings by her
fathers second marriage and by her mother. She and her sister did not
get along with their stepmother, and appears to have moved from home
early on. Her sister Julie Eckerman (1765â€"1801) was also a courtesan
and the mistress of nobleman count Carl Sparre, governor of
Stockholm.Charlotta Eckerman was engaged at the Stenborg Company in
1774, and as a singer at the Royal Swedish Opera in Bollhuset in
Stockholm in 1776â€"81.
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