Countess Christine Sophie Holstein of Holsteinborg, née Reventlow was a politically influential Danish salon hostess.
Career
In 1707, she was granted Seekamp estate (a part of today"s Kiel-Schilksee) in then Slesvig as her own fief by her father. She held a salon in her palace in Copenhagen, and it was well known by foreign ambassadors that she was one of the most powerful people during the reign of Frederick IV of Denmark. Holstein lost all power and spent the rest of her life with her family.
Politics
Holstein had a large influence over her sister and her royal brother-in-law: she was called “madame la grande chancellière” (Madame Grand Chancellor), and her views were presented through her sister to the king and to the government, thereby making her an important politician in the 1710s and 1720s.