Sophia Dorothea of Hanover

Sophia Dorothea of Hanover
Portrait by Antoine Pesne, 1737
Queen consort in Prussia
Electress consort of Brandenburg
Tenure25 February 1713 – 31 May 1740
Born(1687-03-16)16 March 1687
Hanover, Principality of Calenberg
Died28 June 1757(1757-06-28) (aged 70)
Monbijou Palace, Berlin
Burial
Spouse
(m. 1706; died 1740)
Issue
HouseHanover
FatherGeorge I of Great Britain
MotherSophia Dorothea of Celle

Sophia Dorothea of Hanover (26 March [O.S. 16 March] 1687[1][2] – 28 June 1757) was Queen in Prussia and Electress of Brandenburg during the reign of her husband, King Frederick William I, from 1713 to 1740. She was the mother of Frederick the Great (King Frederick II of Prussia).

At the time of Sophia's birth, her father was merely the son of a German prince, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. It was not until 1701 that the Act of Settlement placed him, through his mother, in line to inherit the throne of Great Britain. Sophia was twenty-seven years of age, and had already become the Queen in Prussia and a mother of many children, by the time her father became King George I of Great Britain in 1714.

  1. ^ McKee, Jane; Vigne, Randolph (2014). The Huguenots: France, Exile, & Diaspora. Eastbourne, Great Britain: Sussex Academic Press. p. 68. ISBN 9781845196820.
  2. ^ "Sophia Dorothea of Hanover". Florida Center for Instructional Learning. 2004. Retrieved 2021-04-11 – via University of South Florida.

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