Btw, Original Sophie tells us how that name came to pass in her snarky memoirs...But by the time No.12 arrived, they had simply run out of names and supposedly did a lottery of sorts with the few ladies in waiting asked to write a name on a bit of paper. Presto, Sophia/Sophie, first of her name in either family (i.e. the Stuarts and the Palatine Wittelsbachs). But not the last by far. :)
Ahhh, cool, I didn't know that. Thank you for sharing!
Re: Pöllnitz: Secret Keeper?
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Btw, Original Sophie tells us how that name came to pass in her snarky memoirs...But by the time No.12 arrived, they had simply run out of names and supposedly did a lottery of sorts with the few ladies in waiting asked to write a name on a bit of paper. Presto, Sophia/Sophie, first of her name in either family (i.e. the Stuarts and the Palatine Wittelsbachs). But not the last by far. :)
Ahhh, cool, I didn't know that. Thank you for sharing!