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The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian succession

Note 129 — V THE HEIRESS OF GREAT BRITAIN (HERRENHAUSEN, 1701-1714)

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Sophia’s love of walking seems to have been inherited by her eldest son. Marshal Schulenburg, when on a visit to his sister, the Duchess of Kendal, at Kensington, in 1727, describes his life there as fatiguing, inasmuch as he had to promenade with the King in the gardens every evening for three or four hours.

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