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Sophia was Electress of Hanover. She was born in 1630 at the Hague and died in 1714. The twelfth child of the Elector Palatine and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of James I, she was born at the Hague while her parents were in exile. In 1658 she married Ernest Augustus, a duke of Brunswick, who in 1692 became Elector of Hanover. As neither William III nor his wife Anne, who would succeed him to the throne, had any children, and in its anxiety to exclude Roman Catholic descendants of Charles I from the English throne, Parliament settled the crown upon the Protestant Sophia and her heirs. Sophia, however, died shortly before Anne, and her eldest son was crowned George I.
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