The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian succession

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I may perhaps take this opportunity of observing that the many portraits of the Queen of Bohemia which I have seen at Combe Abbey, at Herrenhausen, in the National Portrait Gall...

The political significance of the marriage, which in 1613 brought the Princess Palatine Elizabeth’s girlhood to a close, was perfectly patent alike to James I’s subjects and to...

We must conclude from this report that the English-born Electress had to bear at Heidelberg some of the unpopularity incurred by her countrymen who, in search of amusement or em...

Only a few brief indications can be given here of the general course of the exiled family’s fortunes during the quarter of a century which elapsed, before a definitive settlemen...

After his father’s death, Charles Lewis had been acknowledged as Elector Palatine by King Charles I and some of the German Protestant Princes; and his mother, though he was and...

Of Sophia’s third sister, the Princess Henrietta Maria (so named after Charles I’s charming but ill-starred Queen), a portrait is drawn in the _Memoirs_ hardly less attractive t...

It was not his fault that, while engaged in these beneficent labours, he had again and again to turn the pruning-hook back into a sword.[42] In 1666, he maintained a brave heart...

Sophia’s own life at Heidelberg, though much clouded by her brother’s domestic troubles, of which more than enough has now been said, and towards which, in its initial stages, s...

Thus, when in 1670 she was asked to extend the hospitable shelter of Herford to Jean Labadie and his following of women and men, which from some fifty gradually rose to seven or...

Some two years before her death, Louisa Hollandina, who had hitherto only been subject to the _migraine_—for the statement that she had died in 1704 to save herself the trouble...

The family consisted of four brothers and three sisters, of which latter two died in infancy. The surviving sister, Sophia Amalia, had in 1643 married the future King Frederick...

We are obliged to refrain from more than touching upon the remaining course of John Frederick’s career, and the _régime_ now established by him at Hanover—one of the most peculi...

In a series of articles in the _Revue des Deux Mondes_, beginning October 15th, 1906, entitled _Madame, Mère du Régent_, M. Arvé de Barine takes great pains to show that in esti...

In September, 1682, the Duchess Sophia informed her ubiquitous correspondent, the Abbé Balati, that henceforth Hanover and Celle would reckon as a single State—a result so advan...

None of the varied experiences through which Sophia had passed during a life of nearly sixty years, had either made her forget her English descent, or led her to regard English...

A time of trouble was imminent for the domestic peace of the House of Hanover, and Sophia, as was noted above, had not long before suffered a severe shock in both mind and body...

The marriage between Sophia Dorothea of Celle and her cousin George Lewis of Hanover, which was to end so disastrously, came as a matter of course to be represented as having be...

It is, therefore, clear that, by this time (1691), Sophia Dorothea’s feelings towards her husband had passed into a condition of more or less active antipathy. And there can no...

We here touch one of the obscurest passages in this pitiful story, and one which must here be dealt with quite briefly. It was quite impossible that Königsmarck’s devotion to th...

It is a curious instance of a certain cynical hauteur in George Lewis (which, however, contains an element of manly self-possession) that he should have supplied the Duchess of...

Danckelmann’s fall had, however, not put an end to Sophia Charlotte’s difficulties at her husband’s court. Some of these were of much the same sort as those from which her mothe...

At Aix-la-Chapelle Sophia had received a remarkable letter from Stepney, written from London about the middle of September, in which he reviewed the entire situation. Rememberin...

Sophia had never shown much sympathy with what may be called the Venetian tastes of her husband; and, after her youth had ebbed away, had more and more come to live an intellect...

We have spoken of the Electress Sophia’s profession of the Reformed faith—a fact as to which, although it has been called into question, there cannot really be any doubt. As we...

Thus we may imagine this spirited and sensible lady, at any time in these last thirteen years of her long life, exemplifying the old saw of ‘_mens sana in corpore sano_.’ In the...

The year 1705 marked an epoch in the history of the Succession question, as we saw that it did in the personal life of the Electress Sophia, who, during its course, lost not onl...

The elements of satisfaction contained in the Acts brought to Hanover by Halifax were not over-estimated by the Electress, to whom it must by this time have become clear that th...

Meanwhile the Court of Hanover, while maintaining unchanged its attitude towards the general question of war or peace, had immediate interests of its own to watch besides such a...

Not long afterwards, Berwick had no better advice to give his royal kinsman, than that he should keep his own counsel as to the point on which he had made up his mind, and not a...

During the interval, it was manifest, the Queen must make up her mind between her two chief counsellors, of whom one still thought it possible to tack and tack about, while the...

The edition of _The Love of an Uncrowned Queen_ edited by me is the revised edition of 1903. Dr. Robert Geerds’ article, as already stated, appeared in the _Beitrag zur Allgemei...

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On Wednesday the Hereditary Princess appeared at table and spoke to 110, then to the Field-Ma[rshal].[201] She arrived late. Prince Max received her and shook hands with her; sh...

I have been here during the last two hours. The Peda[gogue] alighted at the house of the P[rincess] of Tarente,[215] where I saw nothing but silly faces. From there we went to t...

It is easy to suppose with what satisfaction I have read your very charming letter. This satisfaction was due to me, in order to take me a little out of the deep reverie into wh...

Most assuredly, without yours of the 12th the Beating of my Heart, of which 127 had been the cause, would have made an end of me, but, most fortunately for me, I received it at...

The Church of Scotland was, in the main, well affected to the Union and the consequences which it entailed as regards the Succession. But the friends of the House of Hanover had...

Gabor, Bethlen, 47 Gargan (secretary to Sophia) cited, 310 Garnett, Dr. Richard, cited, 251 _note_ Gaultier, Abbé, cited, 415, 426 Geerds, Dr. Robert, cited, 259 _note_ Gentz, 3...

Saint-Simon cited, 134 Salomon, Dr., cited, 387 _note_, 405 _note_ 175, 410 _note_, 411 _note_, 416 _note_, 417 _note_, 419 _note_ Sandys, Dr., 325 Sartorio, 327 Saxony, compact...