The Crown Prince, however, had no intention to allow Juliana Maria and her son to continue their rule, and made contact with Bernstorff to prepare the ousting of the government of 1772. He managed to make his insane father sign an order dismissing the supporters of Juliana Maria from the council and declaring that no royal order was henceforth legal unless co-signed by the Crown Prince. On 14 April 1784, during his first session with the council, the Crown Prince dismissed all followers of Juliana Maria and her son from the council without prior warning and appointed his own followers to the offices, which in effect was a palace coup which discontinued the old regency in one blow. Juliana Maria was reportedly taken with great surprise by the 1784 coup, and "with some scenes between the Crown Prince, the Hereditary Prince and his mother, during which Juliane Marie voiced her offence and bitterness in a couple of temperamental words, it was all over." On the following courtly ball the same night, she and all the other people involved in the palace coup seemingly behaved as if nothing had happened.