# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sophia-of-hanover
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:03:23.392Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sophia-of-hanover"
name: "Sophia of Hanover"
slug: "sophia-of-hanover"
description: "She came within eight weeks of wearing the British crown. Sophia of Hanover died in 1714 two months shy of succeeding Queen Anne — but every monarch since has been her direct Protestant descendant, a bloodline locked in by statute three centuries ago."
tagline: "Princess of the Palatinate, Electress of Hanover, heir presumptive and ancestor of British monarchs following the Act of Settlement 1701"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Electress_Sophia%2C_Princess_Palatine.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1630-10-14"
deathDate: "1714-06-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           59.65
  momentum:             16.44241872561769
  historical:           23.004364
  currentAttention:     17.83006687720603
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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    slug: "politician"
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  - name: "Germany"
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  - name: "Europe"
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  - name: "Early Modern Era"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hannoverin Sofia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sophie de Hanovre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sophia dari Hanover"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sophia van die Palts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in The Hague in 1630 to a deposed Bohemian king and the daughter of James I, Sophia grew up in exile during the Thirty Years' War, courted briefly by her cousin Charles II before marrying a landless German prince, Ernest Augustus, in 1658. She bore him seven children and watched him maneuver the House of Hanover to electoral rank in 1692, making her Electress. The Act of Settlement 1701 named her heiress presumptive to the English throne as James I's granddaughter, the nearest Protestant in line. She commissioned Herrenhausen Palace, hosted Leibniz, and lived long enough to see the crown within reach. She died on 8 June 1714, and her son George crossed the Channel to claim what she'd missed by fifty-four days.