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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.
Oct 30, 2014 · In November 1682, George and Sophia Dorothea were married in Celle Castle. The marriage produced two children; a son, George Augustus, and a daughter, Sophia Dorothea of Hanover....
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Apr 9, 2024 · Sophia Dorothea 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. The only child of George William, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle, by a Huguenot lady named Eleanore d’Olbreuze, she was married, for.
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Dec 3, 2019 · Her elder brother became King George II of Great Britain in 1727. Her parents’ marriage had quickly turned sour, and it was dissolved in 1694, and her mother was imprisoned in Ahlden. Her father’s mistress Melusine von der Schulenburg, gave birth to three daughters over the following years.
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.
Apr 21, 2013 · George probably had conspired to have his wife's lover, a Swedish count, murdered and sent to sleep with the fishes in 1694. George had then had his marriage dissolved that same year on the grounds that Sophia had abandoned the relationship. Sophia was imprisoned in Ahlden House in her native Celle until her death over 30 years later.
Aug 24, 2013 · After his parents’ marriage was dissolved due to “Sophia’s abandonment of her husband,” George and his sister never saw their mother again. This left the young boy extremely resentful...
