Actress. She was a Swedish stage actress of the 19th century, who became very popular on stage and for her personal life. After being enrolled by her mother in the Royal Dramatic Training Academy in 1821, she was primed for social events and by age 14 was entertaining with rich older men. She toured with an acting group until 1828 when she joined the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. In 1834 she traveled to Paris for acting lessons, which improved her acting skills and after being well-received by her audiences, was called "the Aspasia of Sweden." On her third trip to Paris, she brought comedy to Sweden. In the 1830s she became very well-known for her beauty and stage performances, in addition to being a well-paid actress and having several lovers. She lived glamorously at first on the Stockholm island of Djurgården and later in an apartment near the Stockholm Palace, which was provided for by British diplomat John Bloomfield, who later became the 2nd Baron Bloomfield. The couple had a daughter, Thecla Charlotta, on September 25, 1833, and a son Alfred before their relationship ended. Without being in any royal official capacity, she became the mistress of future King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway, with whom she had two acknowledged sons, Hjalmar and Max. Her sons were unofficially called the "Princes of Lapland." Her non-confidential affair with the married Prince Oscar lasted for nearly ten years but was eventually scandalized, with the intervention of the royal court upon Prince Oscar becoming King in 1844. At that point, she sent her two young sons along with her daughter abroad to Hamburg in Germany. With declining health, her last season of acting ended December of 1845. Besides touring Finland, she had 125 roles with numerous performances in Stockholm during her 17-year stage career. Suffering with tuberculous, she began in 1842 traveling to various health resorts in Germany, what is now the Czech Republic, Switzerland, and finally Italy where she died. During her career, she supported many actors financially with their professional endeavors including her brother Jean Högqvist. Her son Max became a merchant in China and died there, while Hjalmar resided in England, married and had two daughters. Both of her sons died before their fortieth birthdate. Her daughter Thecla stayed in Germany and married a Stauffert.