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 | | (f6301714), electress of Hanover, twelfth child of Frederick V., elector palatine of the Rhine, by his wife Elizabeth, a daughter of the English king James I., was born at the Hague on the 14(11 of October 5630. |
 | | Residing after 1649 at Heidelberg with her brother, the restored elector palatine, Charles Louis, she was betrothed to George William afterwards duke of Luneburg-Celle; but in 1658 she married his younger brother, Ernest Augustus, who became elector of Brunswick-Luncburg, or Hanover, in 1692. |
 | | Accordingly by the Act of Settlement of 1701 the English Crown, in default of issue from either William or Anne, was settled upon the most excellent princess Sophia, electress and duchessdowager of Hanover and the heirs of her body, being Protestant. |
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