Sophia Charlotte of Hanover
| Sophia Charlotte of Hanover | |
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| Queen consort in Prussia | |
| Tenure | 18 January 1701 – 1 February 1705 |
| Born |
30 October 1668 Iburg, Osnabrück |
| Died | 1 February 1705 (aged 36) Hanover, Brunswick-Lüneburg |
| Burial | Berlin Cathedral |
| Spouse | Frederick I of Prussia |
| Issue | Frederick William I of Prussia |
| House | Hanover |
| Father | Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg |
| Mother | Sophia of the Palatinate |
| Religion | Lutheran |
Sophia Charlotte of Hanover (30 October 1668 – 1 February 1705) was the first Queen consort in Prussia as wife of King Frederick I. She was the only daughter of Elector Ernest Augustus of Brunswick-Lüneburg and his wife Sophia of the Palatinate. Her eldest brother George Louis succeeded to the British throne in 1714 as King George I.
Sophia Charlotte was born in Iburg Castle in the Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück, where her father held the title of a Protestant prince-bishop. In 1672 her family moved to the new episcopal residence in Osnabrück and finally in 1679 to Hanover, when Ernest Augustus succeeded his brother Duke John Frederick of Brunswick-Lüneburg in the Principality of Calenberg.
During her childhood, Sophia Charlotte visited the Kingdom of France with her mother in hopes of marrying the "Grand Dauphin" Louis, heir to the French throne. He later married Duchess Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria instead, but Sophia Charlotte was also proposed as a possible bride for Louis's father, King Louis XIV, after he lost his wife in 1683. Nothing came of this plan either. A marriage to Frederick of Hohenzollern, son of the "Great Elector" Frederick William of Brandenburg and heir of both Electoral Brandenburg and the Duchy of Prussia, was therefore arranged.
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