Sophia of Hanover
Princess of the Palatinate, Electress of Hanover, heir presumptive and ancestor of British monarchs following the Act of Settlement 1701 · Germany · Politicians · Lived 1630 to 1714 · aged 83
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Something wrong?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.
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Electress Sophia, Princess Palatine
1911-04-20 Illustrirte Zeitung S. 0039 S. 07 obere Hälfte Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz im Leibnizhaus, Hannover, Claus Meyer, Änne Koken, Anna Wendland
2014-03-08 Tag der Archive Hauptstaatsarch Niedersachsen Christine van den Heuvel facsimile 1706 Sukzessionsurkunde Anne Great Britain Kurfürstin Sophie von Braunschweig-Lüneburg electress of Hanover_Galeriegeb%C3%A4ude_Portal_von_Giuseppe_Crotogino.JPG?width=1200)
2016-08-28 7. Hannoversche Freiwilligenbörse, Hannover, (212) Galeriegebäude Portal von Giuseppe Crotogino_Kurf%C3%BCrstin_Sophie_und_Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz.JPG?width=1200)
2016-09-12 Pressekonferenz Leibniz Büste Schloss Marienburg (272) Kurfürstin Sophie und Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-0750.jpg?width=1200)
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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.
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