18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 32

[cahn]

:) Still talking about Charles XII of Sweden / the Great Northern War and the Stuarts and the Jacobites, among other things!

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Re: Sophia Dorothea of Celle, the Hatton take

[cahn]

ha, okay, fair! At least you'll tell me when you're skeptical, though!

Ah, that makes sense about wanting to avoid scandal, and also makes sense that presumably SDC had a little more leverage than zero because of it (I was wondering how she was able to demand anything, even if she didn't/wasn't going to get it.)

Re: Sophia Dorothea of Celle, the Hatton take

[selenak]

Also, SDC's father Georg Wilhelm - the one whom G1's mother Sophie DIDN'T marry - was the oldest Hannover brother. Still alive, and with all the money, hence the G1/SDC marriage to begin with. Now Georg Wilhelm actually as far as I know didn't do anything for his daughter, as opposed to his wife (and ex mistress), but he could have done. Sophie's husband Ernst August had been the youngest Hannover brother, and the reason why he ended up as boss and as the first Prince Elector of Hannover was due to a combination of external factors and conscious policy of uniting the various Hannover heritage bits, not least through the marriage of future G1 and SDC.