the public. She is described as having had a strong closeness to her extended family, with whom she corresponded, and often visited her relatives and eventually also her children abroad, when they left the Netherlands after their marriages. Her correspondence with her children and relatives is considered a valuable source of contemporary court life in the Netherlands, Sweden and Russia. While there is no information as to whether she tried to participate in politics or not, she was strongly Pro-Prussian, and her views caused a conflict between her and queen Sophie during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. Louise and her husband both contributed ideas for the construction of their residence in Passow, in collaboration with the architects Eduard Petzold and Jan David Zocher. In 1869, Louise founded a charity foundation for orphans, the Luisestiftelsen ('Louise Foundation'). Princess Louise died in Pauw Haus, Wassenaar, aged 62. Ancestry References 1808 births 1870 deaths House of Hohenzollern Nobility from Königsberg Prussian princesses Dutch princesses Burials in the Royal Crypt at Nieuwe Kerk, Delft Daughters of kings