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Sophia Charlotte of Hanover
Sophia Charlotte of Hanover
Born in : 1668 / Dead in : 1705
Queen : Prusse - Germany

Sophia Charlotte of Hanover was the daughter of Ernst August, Elector of Hanover and Sophia of the Palatinate. Her eldest brother Georg Ludwig would succeed to the British throne in 1714 as King George I. She was once rumoured to be marrying the widower Louis XIV. By marrying Frederick I of Prussia, she became Queen in Prussia. Their only child to reach maturity became Frederick William I of Prussia.

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Sophia Charlotte is mainly remembered for her friendship and correspondence with her mother's good friend and tutor Gottfried Leibniz, whose avowed disciple she became. Sophia Charlotte's death of pneumonia on 21 January 1705, when she was 36 years of age, devastated him.
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