Record

Document Reference	Bu 3/52
Title	Letter from 4th Earl of Clarendon [G. Villiers], Foreign Office, London, to A. Buchanan, Copenhagen, Denmark; 17 Apr 1854.
Date	17 April 1854
Extent	3 ff
Level	Piece
Content Description	Informs him that he had acted correctly in refusing to meet the 'King's wife' [Countess Danner] and in advising Sir Charles Napier to follow the same course; discusses Danish and Swedish neutrality with a suggestion that Sweden may join the war on the side of England and France; both Prussia and Austria seemed unable to take any stance.
Term	military campaigns, Crimean War 1853-6
	military campaigns, neutrality, Dansih
	military campaigns, neutrality, Swedish
	women, attitudes to
	social conduct, protocol

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA6161	Danner; L. Christine (1815-1874); Countess; third wife of Frederick VII of Denmark formerly an opera dancer and milliner	1815-1874
NA6159	Frederik VII (1808-1863 ); King of Denmark; ( succeeded 1848)	1808-1863
NA6115	Napier; Charles (1786-1860); Sir; admiral of the fleet	1786-1860
NA6093	Villiers; George W.F. (1800-1870); 4th Earl of Clarendon	1800-1870
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882