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The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian succession

Note 59 — II EARLY WOMANHOOD AND MARRIAGE (HEIDELBERG, 1650-1658)

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Ib., p. 136. It was about this time that Elizabeth was also enjoying the company of the young Baron von Selz, an illegitimate son of her son Charles Lewis from his London days. She was warmly interested in him, and in 1660 induced King Charles II to take the youth to London in the suite of Henry Duke of Gloucester. But Selz died in London, much to Elizabeth’s grief, before his friend the Duke. (Hauck, Elizabeth, p. 53.)

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