Henrica Juliana Lieven, Swedish, archaic; von Liewen (16 February 1709 – 26 August 1779) was a Swedish noble, socialite and lady-in-waiting, politically active on behalf of the Hats (party) during the Age of Liberty.
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Life
Henrica Juliana was the daughter of the riksråd, count Hans Henrik von Liewen the Elder, member of the house of Lieven, and Magdalena Juliana von Tiesenhausen, and the sister of riksråd count Hans Henrik von Lieven the Younger, future governor of Swedish Pomerania and Marshal of the Realm.
During the 1730s, when Frederick I of Sweden and his group of favorites made trips to the country estates of the nobility, trips during which "under the pretext of hunting trips, the indecency sometimes when to far", she was at one point the subject of a scandal during a trip with the King, his brother William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Hedvig Taube and her sisters to Gripsholm Castle. During the same decade, she, as well as Hedvig Catharina Lilje, participated in the foundation of the Hats (party).
Favorite
In 1744, she was made maid of honor to the new crown princess, Louisa Ulrika of Prussia. She belonged to the first circle of courtiers to Louisa Ulrika after her arrival in Sweden together with Cathérine Charlotte De la Gardie, the sisters Agneta and Ulrika Strömfelt and Charlotta Sparre, and is described as Louisa Ulrika’s first favourite. Louisa Ulrika described her in a letter to her mother: "... a girl with many merits and who had the mind of an angel, gay, cheerful and very strong." [...] All my ladies-in-waiting are very beautiful and very funny, each of them can take part in a conversation with no risk of ruining it."