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  1. Sophia Dorothea of Hanover (26 March [O.S. 16 March] 1687 – 28 June 1757) was Queen in Prussia and Electress of Brandenburg during the reign of her husband, King Frederick William I, from 1713 to 1740.

  2. Apr 9, 2024 · Sophia Dorothea (born Sept. 13, 1666—died Nov. 23, 1726, Schloss Ahlden, Lower Saxony) was the wife of George Louis, elector of Hanover (George I of Great Britain), who accused her of infidelity and imprisoned her for 32 years.

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  3. Oct 3, 2017 · He and Sophia Dorothea were married on November 21, 1682 in Éléonore’s apartments when he was 22 and she was 16. She duly moved to Hanover with the expectation that she would eventually fill the role of Electress of Hanover. Sophia of Palatine and her daughter, Sophia Charlotte.

  4. Dec 3, 2019 · Sophia Dorothea of Hanover was born on 26 March 1687 at the Leineschloss in Hanover as the daughter of the then Hereditary Prince of Brunswick-Lüneburg, later King George I of Great Britain, and Sophia Dorothea of Celle. Her elder brother became King George II of Great Britain in 1727.

  5. Nov 15, 2023 · King George I's Mother, Sophia Dorothea: Britain's Queen in Waiting. The matriarch of the Hanoverian dynasty during the late 17th and early 18th centuries was Sophia Dorothea, Electress of Hanover. She was destined to be remembered, or overlooked, as the queen that Britain never had.

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