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Oct 3, 2017 · On the night of July 1, 1694, Konigsmarck was seen entering Sophia Dorothea’s apartments. Legend has it that he had received a note to meet her at an appointed time, however it wasn’t from the Princess but rather from Ernest Augustus’s mistress, the Countess von Platen, who despised Sophia Dorothea.
Sophia had been betrothed to Ernest Augustus's older brother, George William, who did not want her. When she married Ernest Augustus instead, releasing George William from this obligation, George William ceded to Ernest Augustus his claim to Lüneburg. Prince-Bishop
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Augustus married Princess Frederica Sophia Charlotte Alexandrina at Neustrelitz, May 29, 1815, and in London, August 29, 1815. Princess Frederica was the widow of (1) Prince Frederick Louis Charles of Prussia, and (2) Prince Frederick William of Solms-Braunfels, and 3rd daughter of Charles Louis Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ...
Oct 14, 2017 · Though neither was in love with the other, Ernest Augustus and Sophia got along well enough and proved to be good partners personally and professionally. Sophia was the more intelligent of the two, and the more intellectually inclined, though Ernest Augustus proved himself an efficient practitioner of governance and safeguarding the family’s ...
Various rumours arose about Sophia's alleged incestuous relationship with her fifth brother, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, who had an unnatural interest in his sister. The Prince Regent supposedly warned his sisters not to be alone in the same room with the Duke, and Cumberland was a deeply unpopular figure in Britain.
While residing after 1649 at Heidelberg with her brother Charles I, elector Palatine of the Rhine, Sophia was betrothed to George William, afterwards duke of Lüneburg-Celle. However, in 1658, she married his younger brother, Ernst August, who became elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg, or Hanover, in 1692. Sophia's married life was not happy.
Oct 30, 2014 · George I and Sophia Dorothea may not have had the best of relationships, but their son, George Augustus, and his wife were much happier together.
