 Caroline Matilda spent the summer at Frederiksborg Castle with her son before returning to Copenhagen in the autumn.During the absence of the King, there were rumours about an affair of the Queen with a certain La Tour, a handsome actor and singer from the French-language theater "Hofteatret".La Tour was the lover of her lady-in-waiting Elisabet von Eyben, but he was known to receive gifts from "a higher hand" and it was said that his visits to von Eyben's chamber were in fact visits to the Queen.