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Prince Frederick Henry Ludwig of Prussia (German: Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig; 18 January 1726 – 3 August 1802) was a Prussian general, statesman, and diplomat. He was a son of King Frederick William I of Prussia and Princess Sophia Dorothea of Hanover , and the younger brother of Frederick the Great .
The Crown Prince was the son of King William I of Prussia, and the Princess Royal was the eldest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Frederick William and Victoria were already the parents of a large family and as the penultimate child, Sophie was eleven years younger than her eldest brother, the future William II of Germany. Sophie's ...
In 1714 George I, prince-elector of Hanover and a descendant of King James VI and I, assumed the throne of Great Britain and Ireland, marking the beginning of Hanoverian rule over the British Empire. At the end of his line, Queen Victoria 's death in 1901, the throne of the United Kingdom passed to her eldest son Edward VII , a member of the ...
Sophia, dressed as an indigenous American. Painted by her sister (circa 1644), Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate The twelfth [2] child and fifth daughter of Frederick V of the Palatinate and Elizabeth Stuart, also known as the "Winter King and Queen of Bohemia" for their short rule in that country, Sophia was born in The Wassenaer Hof, The Hague, Dutch Republic, where her parents had fled ...
Sophie of Prussia may refer to: Duchess Sophie of Prussia (1582–1610) Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1685–1735), Queen of Prussia; Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia (1719–1765) Sophia of Prussia (1870–1932), Queen of the Hellenes, wife of King Constantine I; Sophie, Princess of Prussia (born 1978) wife of Georg Friedrich ...
Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, has officially been a member of the British royal family since she wed Prince Edward—Queen Elizabeth II’s youngest son—25 years ago in 1999. But since the ...
Married 1888 Prince Henry of Prussia (1862–1929), son of her aunt Victoria, the British Princess Royal & German Empress (see above), and had issue (3 sons): Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1889–1945), Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1896–1978) and Prince Henry of Prussia (1900–1904). Ernest Louis, later Grand Duke of Hesse 25 November 1868 ...
Matters changed when the British ambassador Hotham arrived and officially suggested marriage between Wilhelmine and the Prince of Wales, providing the king agreed to marriage between Crown Prince Frederick and Princess Amelia of Great Britain, and the dismissal of his favorite, the anti-British Grumbkow, whom they accused of treason against him ...