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The love of an uncrowned queen : $b Sophie Dorothea, consort of George I, and her correspondence with Philip Christopher, Count Königsmarck — John Shaqi

The love of an uncrowned queen : $b Sophie Dorothea, consort of George I, and her correspondence with Philip Christopher, Count KönigsmarckWilkins, W. H. (William Henry)

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The love of an uncrowned queen : $b Sophie Dorothea, consort of George I, and her correspondence with Philip Christopher, Count Königsmarck

Name: The love of an uncrowned queen : $b Sophie Dorothea, consort of George I, and her correspondence with Philip Christopher, Count Königsmarck
Author: Wilkins, W. H. (William Henry)

Wilkins, W. H. (William Henry)

Königsmarck, Christopher von, 1665-1694; Sophia Dorothea, consort of George I, King of Great Britain, 1666-1726

James I.
                                     |
                              Queen of Bohemia.
                                     |
                                  Sophia, m. Ernest Augustus (afterward
                                     |         Elector of Hanover).
        +—————-+———-+————+———+————-+———+
        |           |       |        |      |         |      |
  George Louis,     |   Maximilian   |   Charles      |   Ernest
  b. 1660, d. 1727  |   William,     |   Philip,      |   Augustus
  (afterward        |   b. 1666,     |   b. 1669,     |   Duke of York,
  George I. of      |   d. 1726.     |   d. 1690.     |   b. 1674,
  England), m.      |                |                |   d. 1728.
  Sophie            |                |                |
  Dorothea of       |                |                |
  Celle.            |                |                |
                    |                |                |
                Frederick         Sophia           Christian,
                Augustus,         Charlotte        b. 1671,
                b. 1661,          (Electress of    d. 1703.
                d. 1691.          Brandenburg
                                  and first Queen
                                  of Prussia),
                                  b. 1668, d. 1705.

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Ernest Augustus held the security of his brother’s promise not to enter
into a legal marriage, and believed in it implicitly; but he naturally
asked himself to what end Eléonore was working. He heard much of George
William’s boundless generosity to his morganatic wife, and he liked not
the diversion of his private property from what he thought its proper
direction, to wit, himself.

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The love of an uncrowned queen : $b Sophie Dorothea, consort of George I, and her correspondence with Philip Christopher, Count Königsmarck

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