Sophia of Hanover
Princess of the Palatinate, Electress of Hanover, heir presumptive and ancestor of British monarchs following the Act of Settlement 1701
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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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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…
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