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15 de sept. de 2016 · On This Day: Birth of Sophia Dorothea of Celle. On 15th September 1666 the sole heir to the Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg was born, and it was a girl. Named "Sophia Dorothea", the little Duchess would go on to have a deeply unhappy marriage to a man who would then imprison her for thirty years, the future King George I of England.
8 de oct. de 2017 · In 1692 the Duchess of Platen presented a collection of their correspondence to Princess Sophia Dorothea’s father-in-law, the Elector of Hanover. Countess of Platen Von Königsmarck was banished from the Hanoverian court but soon found a position in the neighbouring court of Saxony where one night when he was deep in his cups he let slip the state of affairs in the royal bedchamber of the ...
Sophia Dorothea was born in 1759 in Stettin, Pomerania, the daughter of Frederick II Eugene, duke of Wurttemberg, and Sophia Dorothea of Brandenburg . She was brought up in a close-knit and happy family living in the town of Montbéliard close to the French frontier. Her limited home education stressed morals and manners, dancing and needlepoint.
27 de feb. de 2023 · On 28 December 1694, the divorce proceedings were finalised. Sophia Dorothea was considered the guilty party. Two months later, Sophia Dorothea returned to the Castle of Ahlden, where she became known as the Duchess of Ahlden. While there, she was under the watchful eye of the Seigneur de la Fortière.
Sophia Dorothea was 60 years old and had spent 33 of these years imprisoned. George would not allow mourning in Hanover or London. He was furious when he heard that his daughter’s court in Berlin wore black. Sophia Dorothea’s body was put into a casket and was deposited in the castle’s cellar. It was quietly moved to Celle in May 1727 to ...
When Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg was born on 25 October 1759, in Stetten, Schwaigern, Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, her father, Friedrich Eugen Heinrich von Württemberg II, was 27 and her mother, Prinzessin Friederike Sophia Dorothea von Brandenburg-Schwedt, was 22. She married Paul Petrovitsj van Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov I on 7 ...
1 de sept. de 2023 · George's marriage to Sophia Dorothea was dissolved, not on the grounds that either of them had committed adultery, but on the grounds that Sophia Dorothea had abandoned her husband. With the concurrence of her father, George had Sophia Dorothea imprisoned in Ahlden House in her native Celle, where she stayed until she died more than thirty years later on November 13, 1726.
