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Oct 3, 2017 · What survives of the letters indicates that they began a physical relationship in March 1692 shortly after the birth of George Ludwig’s bastard daughter, though it’s unknown whether Sophia Dorothea immediately knew of the child’s existence.
The couple became estranged—George preferred the company of his mistress, Melusine von der Schulenburg, and Sophia Dorothea had her own romance with the Swedish Count Philip Christoph von Königsmarck. Threatened with the scandal of an elopement, the Hanoverian court, including George's brothers and mother, urged the lovers to desist, but to ...
Contemporary sources show that Sophia Dorothea and Königsmarck were presumed to have had a sexual relationship since March 1692, though she consistently denied it throughout the rest of her life. [5]
Oct 13, 2015 · When George had married his cousin Sophia Dorothea of Celle in 1682 he was twenty-two and she was sixteen. It was not exactly a love-match – she referred to him as “pig-snout” and begged not to be forced to go through with the marriage.
Jan 18, 2023 · On 22 November 1682, as arranged by his father, George married his cousin Sophia Dorothea of Celle (l. 1666-1726), the daughter of Georg Wilhelm, Duke of Lüneburg-Celle in Germany. The couple went on to have two children: Georg August (b. 1683) and Sophia Dorothea.
May 10, 2017 · Sophia Dorothea was terribly unhappy, but did her duty giving birth to the needed son an heir, the future George II in 1683, and a daughter, Sophia Dorothea in 1686. The relationship did not improve at all. George’s affairs got more public, and carried on with two women as once.
Nov 15, 2023 · In September 1658, Sophia Dorothea married her third cousin on her mother’s side, Ernst August, the youngest son of Georg, Duke of Brunswick-Lűneburg and his wife, Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt. Sophia Dorothea was previously betrothed to his brother Georg Wilhelm, but he called off the wedding.
