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Frederica of Baden
Queen of Sweden
Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden with his queen consort Frederica of Baden
Reign	1797 (date of marriage) - March 29, 1809 (husband's abdication)
Full name	Frederica Dorothea Wilhelmina
Born	March 12, 1781(1781-03-12)
	Karlsruhe
Died	September 25, 1826 (aged 45)
	Lausanne, Switzerland
Consort to	Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden div. 1812
Issue	Gustav, Prince of Vasa Sophie Carl Gustav Amalia Maria Charlotta Cecilia
Royal House	House of Holstein-Gottorp
Father	Karl Ludwig of Baden
Mother	Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt

Frederica Dorothea Wilhelmina of Baden (March 12, 1781 - September 25, 1826) was Queen consort of Sweden from 1797 to 1809. Daughter of Karl Ludwig of Baden and Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, she was the younger sister of Empress Elisabeth Alexeievna (formerly Princess Louise of Baden), wife of Tsar Alexander I of Russia.

In 1797, she married King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden and became Queen. Her husband had arranged the marriage himself because she was sister with the Rusian Empress, which made a form of alliance with Russia even after he refused to marry the Russian Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna, but mostly because he wanted a beautiful queen.

The marriage is often considered happy, but the king was much more interested in sex than she was; many times, the king was delayed for hours after "having entered the queens bed chamber" in the mornings, so much so that the members of the parliament had to interrupt and aske the king to "spare the queens health", and she complained of the excaustion it caused her. Having been brought up in innocence, her husband wanted to preserve her ignorance in sexual affairs, and she was shocked and intrigued by the sexually liberal Swedish court and wrote home to her family that "everyone had a lover", and about the bisexual rumours about the royal Duchess Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp. When a frivoulous play was performed for the queen by a French theatre troup hired to perform at the Opera, the king actually closed the Royal Swedish Opera down in 1806, (though officially because of the costs); it remained closed until 1809.

She was deposed from the throne together with her husband in 1809, after which the family settled in Baden, but her husband was restless and did not want to stay. She herself refused further sexual intercorse as she "did not which to give birth in exile". They were divorced in 1812. She secretely supported him finacially after the separation.

The communities of Fredrika (1799), Dorotea (1799) and Vilhelmina (1804) located in Lappland were named in her honor.

1. Crown Prince Gustaf, after 1809 known as Gustaf Gustafsson of Vasa (November 9, 1799–1877)
2. Princess Sofia Wilhelmina (May 21, 1801–1865), married Grand Duke Leopold I of Baden
3. Prince Carl Gustaf, Grand Duke of Finland (December 2, 1802–1805)
4. Princess Amalia Maria Charlotta (February 22, 1805–1853)
5. Princess Cecilia (June 22, 1807–1844), married August, Grand Duke of Oldenburg.

Gustav would serve as an officer to the Habsburgs of Austria, but would only father one daughter, Carola, the wife of King Albert I of Saxony, but she would died childless.

Sofia Wilhelmina would marry Leopold I of Baden, and their granddaughter, Victoria of Baden, would eventually marry Gustav V of Sweden, thus connecting the House of Bernadotte with the previous Swedish dynasties.

• Herman Lindquist, "Alla Sveriges drottningar"
• "Svensk teater och svenska skådespelare"