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The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian succession

Note 154 — V THE HEIRESS OF GREAT BRITAIN (HERRENHAUSEN, 1701-1714)

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After Queen Sophia Charlotte’s death there was less love lost than ever between the King, her husband, and the Elector, her brother. In 1711, the Electress Sophia, speaking of a melancholy journey of her son-in-law’s, observes that it was a Divine punishment on him that he should hate the Elector without any reason whatever.

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