On 8 July 1752 at Frederiksborg Palace, Juliana Maria married King Frederick V of Denmark, just over six months after the death of his first wife Louise of Great Britain, and was crowned the same day. She was given a household headed by queen Louise's old chamberlain Carl Juel and head lady-in-waiting Christiane Henriette Louise Juel. The wedding was celebrated by a number of court festivities on the royal palaces around North Zealand during the following summer months, but "among the common men the mood was more still, as this seems to them to be so sudden after the mourning of queen Louise".