The Imprisoned Princess by Catherine Curzon Book Review
*contains affiliate links* Sophia Dorothea of Celle would have been Queen of Great Britain if she had not divorced the future King George I of […]
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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 – 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, […]
Melusine – The possible wife of George I
George I’s family life was often such a disaster that the fact he kept mistresses was hardly seen as a scandal. Before ascending the throne […]
England’s Queens from Catherine of Aragon to Elizabeth II by Elizabeth Norton Book Review
As you may remember, I reviewed part one of this book, England’s Queens from Boudica to Elizabeth of York, earlier this year. This second part […]