Sophia Dorothea of Hanover – The Olympia of the Hohenzollerns (Part two)
Read part one here. The accession of her father as King of Great Britain in 1714 led to her entertaining the thought of a marriage […]
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover – The Olympia of the Hohenzollerns (Part one)
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover was born on 26 March 1687 at the Leineschloss in Hanover as the daughter of the then Hereditary Prince of Brunswick-Lüneburg, […]
Lost Kingdoms – Kingdom of Prussia
The Kingdom of Prussia came into being in 1701 in return for an alliance against France in the War of the Spanish Succession. Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg and Duke […]
Sophia Dorothea of Celle – The Prisoner of Ahlden
Sophia Dorothea of Celle was born on 15 September 1666 as the daughter of George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and his mistress, Eleonore d’Esmier d’Olbreuse. Her parents officially […]
The Hohenzollern Crypt at the Berliner Dom
I spent a few days in Berlin and one of the first stops I made was at the Berliner Dom, or Berlin Cathedral. It was […]