Her great dependence on love left her emotionally vulnerable. When one favorite, Alexander Lanskoi, passed away, Catherine described her symptoms of lovesickness: "My happiness is gone. I have thougth of dying myself....My room, which until now was so pleasant, has become an empty cavern into which I drag myself like a ghost." Her vulnerability was further affected by a series of family disappointments in the last years of her life. Her daughter Anna died as a baby. Her heir, her son Paul, whose personality resembled Peter3's, hated her. When the king of Sweden insulted Catherine by breaking his promise to marry her granddaughter Alexandra, she suffered a stroke. Her health continued to decline until, at the age of 67, Russia's "Little Mother" passed away.