Note 79 — III THE DUCHESS SOPHIA (HANOVER, OSNABRÜCK, AND HANOVER, 1658-1688)
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See Ezechiel Spanheim’s Account of the English Court, printed by Dr. R. Doebner in English Historical Review, Vol. ii. 1887, pp. 757 sqq. Spanheim’s statement as to the scruples felt at Hanover is exactly borne out by an observation of Sophia, à propos of the proposed match between her son George Lewis and the Princess Sophia Dorothea, that the example of the Prince of Orange (William III) ‘renders the notion more endurable.’ In other words, the House of Hanover thought a marriage with a daughter of Anne Hyde a sort of mésalliance. (See Briefwechsel d. Herzogin Sophie mit d. Kurfürsten Karl Ludwig, p. 387.)