In Her Words: Sophia of Hanover - Part Two
Tudors Dynasty & Beyond
RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson
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🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
We continue today with Chapter Two of In Her Words. In this episode we really get a feel for Sophia of Hanover's personality and how she felt about her brother, her sister-in-law and a possible suitor. This is such a fun look into 17th century history, we are not often gifted enough.
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Her sisters: Elisabeth, Louise and Henriette
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Tudor's Dynasty podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome back to Chapter 2 of In Her Words, a satirical memoir of Sophia of Hanover. |
| 0:18.8 | After this short break, we'll return where we left off from chapter one. |
| 0:32.6 | It struck me at times, as I have before mentioned, that my happiness at the hague would be of no long |
| 0:39.2 | duration. And as my good friends had come to the same conclusion, it was agreed that I should go |
| 0:45.3 | to the palatinate on a visit to my brother, the elector Palatine, who had always favored me |
| 0:51.0 | with his affection, even to the extent of calling me his daughter, for he was |
| 0:55.2 | 13 years older than I. Hearing that, he had married a princess of Hess Castle, and knowing him to be a |
| 1:03.4 | prince of great powers of mind, I felt sure that in so important a matter, he would not have allowed |
| 1:09.9 | inclination to overrule judgment, |
| 1:13.0 | and that in the young and beautiful princess of his choice, I was certain to find a delightful |
| 1:18.0 | companion. The queen, who still clung to the idea of the English marriage, consented with |
| 1:25.7 | great reluctance to my departure. But when it was pointed out to |
| 1:29.6 | her that my journey would be no obstacle to her plan, she not only gave free consent, but arranged |
| 1:35.7 | that I should be accompanied by my two favorites. The Carraise, the eldest of whom was married to |
| 1:42.0 | Mr. Withpole, a very accomplished and agreeable gentleman lord craven was superintendent and took charge of us all |
| 1:51.1 | as i had never during my whole life stirred from the hag except once when i went to rennan and now and then in a canal boat to laden or Delft, I dreaded the fatigue of a carriage, |
| 2:03.9 | and therefore begged from the States General the loan of a pinnish, |
| 2:08.4 | in which I was able, with great comfort, to sail up the Rhine. |
| 2:12.6 | I intended to stop nowhere, but when we touched at the town of Dusseldorf, |
| 2:19.6 | the Duke of Newburgh did me the honor of coming in person to welcome nowhere. But when we touched at the town of Dusseldorf, the Duke of Newburgh did me the honor of coming in person to welcome me and invite me to dinner. His wife, being at Ems, I at first hesitated |
| 2:27.1 | about accepting the invitation, but thought at last that I might do so, as he was a prince of nearly |
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