This Week in Royal History: October 30-November 5
Tudors Dynasty & Beyond
RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson
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🗓️ 30 October 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to This Week in Royal History, where we're exploring the world outside the Tudors with royal history highlights from a variety of centuries. This week we look at the following people: Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, Amelia Sophia Eleanor (daughter of George II), Eleanor of England (daughter of Henry II), Charles II of Spain, Anne of York (daughter of Edward IV), Edmund Tudor, and Sophia (daughter of George III).
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| 0:00.0 | The Tudors Dynasty podcast. |
| 0:07.5 | Welcome to this week in Royal History, where we're exploring the world outside the Tudors, |
| 0:13.3 | with Royal History highlights from a variety of centuries. |
| 0:18.0 | This week, the week of October 30th through November 5th. |
| 0:23.6 | As Stuart by descent, Sophia Charlotte of Hanover was the great-granddaughter of King James |
| 0:29.1 | the 6th and 1st. Her mother, Sophia of Hanover, was the daughter of King James' daughter, |
| 0:35.1 | Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, and her father was Ernest Augustus, |
| 0:39.4 | elector of Hanover, and King of Bohemia. She was born in 1668. At her birth, Sophia Charlotte was the |
| 0:48.5 | younger sister of the future King George I of Britain. When Sophia was about 16 years old, she wed Frederick Hohenzel, heir to the electoral Babenberg |
| 0:59.8 | and Duchy of Prussia. |
| 1:01.9 | A few years later, in 1888, Sophia Charlotte became Electress of Babenberg. |
| 1:08.8 | When it became a kingdom years later, Sophia became Queen of Prussia. |
| 1:13.7 | The couple's love for one another was not one for the fairy tales. Sophia, it is said, |
| 1:19.3 | did not have the love for her husband that he had for her. However, Sophia Charlotte and Frederick |
| 1:25.2 | had two sons together. Their eldest sadly died in infancy. |
| 1:31.0 | In 1695, Sophia Charlotte received her estates and had a summer residence built to her liking. |
| 1:38.0 | She lived independently from Frederick and had her own court. Frederick was only allowed to visit with an invitation. |
| 1:45.7 | Her court was surrounded by philosophers, musicians, and important cultural figures. |
| 1:51.9 | Sophia Charlotte died on the 21st of January, 1705, at the age of 36, after contracting pneumonia |
| 1:59.8 | on a trip to Hanover to see her mother. |
| 2:03.6 | Amelia Sophia Eleanor was born in Hanover in 1711 to George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach. |
| 2:14.6 | Caroline had been award of George's aunt, Sophia Charlotte. |
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