I am Christian VII of Denmark, I was King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig and Holstein from 1766 until my death in 1808. I suffered from mental illness and was only nominally king for most of my reign. My royal advisers changed depending on the outcome of power struggles. From 1770 to 1772, my court physician Johann Friedrich Struensee was the de facto ruler of the country and introduced progressive reforms signed into law by me. Struensee was deposed by a coup in 1772, after which the country was ruled by my stepmother, Queen Dowager Juliane Marie of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, my half-brother Hereditary Prince Frederick, and the Danish politician Ove Høegh-Guldberg. From 1784 until my death in 1808, my son, later Frederick VI, acted as unofficial prince regent.