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The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian succession

Note 60 — II EARLY WOMANHOOD AND MARRIAGE (HEIDELBERG, 1650-1658)

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On another occasion she writes with generous frankness: ‘The King is not bounde to doe for me but what he pleases, for being maried out of the house he might justly pretend not to be bound to give me anything, but he is kinder than many nephews would be, his income besides is not settled as you believe it is.’ (Letters, &c., p. 207).

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