to the head of the great House of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and, though they knew it not, an ancestress to two of the mightiest monarchs of the modern world—the King of England and the German Emperor.[11] ----- Footnote 11: Short genealogical table showing descent of King Edward VII. and the Emperor William II. from SOPHIE DOROTHEA of Celle. SOPHIE DOROTHEA, married her first cousin, George Louis (afterwards George I.); they had two children—_viz._ | +———————-+——————-+ | | George II. The Queen of Prussia. | +—————+————+ Frederick Prince of Wales. | | | Frederick Prince William Augustus. George III. the Great. | | Frederick William II. The Duke of Kent. | | Frederick William III. Queen Victoria. | | Emperor William I. Edward VII. | Emperor Frederick. | Emperor William II. ----- The little town of Celle, at least that part of it which clusters around the base of the castle’s mighty walls, has also changed little since the days of Sophie Dorothea. The old brick church where the babe of that bright morning now sleeps with her fathers remains the same. The triangular market-place and the quaint little streets which branch off from it, many of them narrow and irregular, bear the marks of the flight of centuries. The old part of the town still stands with houses dated from 1600 to 1700, having outer beams carved with curious and uncouth mottoes. Celle, though a fairly prosperous town, has not shot ahead like Hanover. But in those days Celle, with its magnificent schloss, the seat of the elder brother’s duchy, was a place of considerable importance. It was a veritable Naboth’s vineyard to Ernest Augustus and Sophia, his spouse, who, from their little court at Osnabrück, looked towards it with longing eyes.