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Wilhelmine Schröder was the daughter of a ruined land owner, J. P. Schröder. She met Charles when she met him in an audience regarding a murder attempt of her father, who died a couple of years after the attempt.
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Wilhelmine Schroder
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Not to be confused with the singer Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient. Charles fell in love with her and courted her for several years until 1869, when she agreed to a relationship on the condition that she remain financially independent and retain her job at the telegraph office in Hällestad rather than being "kept" by him. She moved to Stockholm when she tired of travelling between the cities, but took the same job in the capital, still refusing to be supported by Charles.
Charles did, however, give her an apartment at Drottninggatan 72.
Charles was fascinated by her interests, discussed existential issues with her, and called her "a priestess of pure and holy love", with whom he sought "forgiveness for his sins". Their relationship lasted until Charles"s death in 1872.
Schröder eventually became a journalist in the paper Hemmet. In 1902, she published a book about the supernatural, Från det fördolda.
Borgoch folksagor ("From the Hidden: Castleand folktales").
She died at Ulriksdal in 1924 shortly before the age of 85.
