germanaustriannoblesandroyals: Women of the House of Hanover (7/?) & Royal Women of Prussia
germanaustriannoblesandroyals:Women of the House of Hanover (7/?)& Royal Women of Prussia (10/?): Princess Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Princess of Great BritainSophia Dorothea was the second child and only daughter of King George I of Great Britain, The Elector of Hanover, and his wife Princess Sophia Dorothea ofBrunswick-Lüneburg-Celle, better known as Sophia of Celle or The Princess of Ahlden.After the imprisonment of her mother, Sophia and her brother were raised in Hanover by their grandmother Princess Sophie (Sophia) of the Palatine, The Electress of Hanover, through who the House of Hanover would also ultimately claim the British throne. Until he was three years old, Sophia Dorothea’s future husband Electoral-Prince Frederick William of Prussia was raised by their common grandmother as well. However, Frederick did not care for Sophia as a child and even bullied her brother, the future King of Britain.Nevertheless, Sophia Dorothea and Frederick William were wed on November 28th, 1706. The couple could not have been different. While he would become known as The Soldier King, she was a person who was interest in the fine arts which her children, to their father’s displeasure, would mostly inherit from her. Sophia Dorothea also corresponded with Princess Palatine Elisabeth Charlotte “Liselotte”, The Duchess of Orléans who was a cousin of her mother’s and had also been raised once by Electress Sophia.Frederick William and Sophia Dorothea would go on to have 14 children. Among them Frederick the Great, Princess Wilhelmine, Princess Anna Amalia and Princess Louisa Ulrika, who would become Queen of Sweden. Sophia Dorothea had always wanted to marry one of her children to one of her British relatives. However, although she tried it multiple times, a Prussian-Anglo alliance was never made in that generation. Instead most of her children married within the kingdom of Prussia or into the House of Welf she herself descended from.Sophia was close to her eldest son all life long. She knew about his escape plans and together with her daughter Wilhelmine destroyed as much evidence as they could after the escape failed. Frederick showed his appreciation of his mother by keeping her the first lady of Prussia even after his father’s death. Sophia Dorothea outranked her daughter-in-law Princess Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern. Additionally, Frederick demanded that she would be referred to as Queen Mother and not as Queen Dowager as it should have been by tradition. Furthermore, he asked his mother not to adress him as Majesty but as her son as this was to him the highest honor he could ever receive by her.Sophia Dorothea died on June 28th, 1757, after her health had been declining. Her final resting place in the Hohenzollern vault in Berlin Cathedral. She was the last Queen in Prussia, since her son and by that his wife became monarch of Prussia in 1772.// Christina Große as Sophia Dorothea in Friedrich - Ein deutscher König (2011) -- source link
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