Day: 28 May 2018

Sophia of the Palatinate and Hanover, Almost Queen of England

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Sophia of the Palatinate, the 12th of 13 children born to Frederick V of the Palatinate and Elizabeth Stuart, missed becoming Queen of Great Britain by just a few weeks. Her parents were called the “Winter King and Queen of Bohemia” because they only ruled Bohemia for one short season. They fled to the Dutch… Read more Sophia of the Palatinate and Hanover, Almost Queen of England

King George I

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Georg Ludwig, future King George I of England, came into the world on 28 May 1660 in Hanover, the eldest son of Duke Ernest Augustus of Brunswick-Lüneburg and his wife, Sophia of the Palatinate, who was the Protestant the granddaughter of King James I of England through her mother, Elizabeth of Bohemia. No one thought of baby George as a possible… Read more King George I