You can guess that any happily-married middle- or even peasant-class girl had it better than Queen Elisabeth Christine of Prussia who had the misfortune to be married to Frederick the Great in an unwanted arranged marriage. Her Wikipedia article is here.
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ca. 1555 Caterina de' Medici by ? (Galleria degli Uffizi - Firenze, Toscana, Italy)
Maria Francisca Pignatelli and Gonzaga, Duchess of Medinaceli by Anton Raphael Mengs (location unknown to gogm)
ca. 1739 Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern by Antoine Pesne (Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten - Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany)
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern
*oil on canvas
*1740
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