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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 two had loud and bitter arguments. Nevertheless, they managed to conceive two children: George Augustus (the future King George II of Great Britain, born on 30 October 1683) and Sophia Dorothea (the future Queen Consort in Prussia and Electress Consort of Brandenburg, born on 16 March 1687).
- May 1727, Stadtkirche, Celle
- Hanover
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Oct 13, 2015 · painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller. 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. She fainted when she was first introduced to him.
George's marriage to Sophia Dorothea was dissolved, not on the grounds that either of them had committed adultery, but on the grounds that Sophia Dorothea had abandoned her husband. With her father's agreement, George had Sophia Dorothea imprisoned in Ahlden House in her native Celle, where she stayed until she died more than thirty years later ...
- 1 August 1714 – 11 June 1727
- Sophia of the Palatinate
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.
Nov 15, 2023 · Ernst August and Sophia Dorothea's marriage brought them six surviving sons and one daughter. The children were petrified of their austere, militaristic father. He was distant and demanded total obedience; they looked to Sophia Dorothea to temper his ferocity, but she didn't always oblige them.
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.
