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Sophia of Hanover (born Princess Sophia of the Palatinate; 14 October 1630 – 8 June 1714 [a]) was the Electress of Hanover by marriage to Elector Ernest Augustus and later the heiress presumptive to the thrones of England and Scotland (later Great Britain) and Ireland under the Act of Settlement 1701, as a granddaughter of James VI and I. Prince...

Born Sophie Charlotte or Sophia Charlotte on October 20, 1668 (some sources cite October 12, 1662), in Schloss Iburg, near Osnabruck; died on February 1, 1705 (some sources cite January 21, 1706), in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany; interred at the Royal Chapel, Berlin; daughter of Ernst August, duke of Brunswick, who was elevated to elector of ...

Queen Charlotte, born Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz on May 19, 1744, was the daughter of Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Princess Elizabeth Albertina of...

She was also the Electress of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire until the promotion of her husband to King of Hanover on 12 October 1814, after which she was also queen consort of Hanover. Queen Charlotte was a patroness of the arts and an amateur botanist, who helped expand Kew Gardens.

Sophia Charlotte of Hanover (30 October 1668, at Schloss Iburg in Bad Iburg near Osnabrück – 1 February 1705 in Hanover) was the daughter of Ernst August, Elector of Hanover and Sophia of the Palatinate. Her eldest brother Georg Ludwig would succeed to the British throne in 1714 as King George I.

Sophia, also called Sophia of the Palatinate, German Sophie von der Pfalz, (born Oct. 14, 1630, The Hague—died June 8, 1714, Herrenhausen, Hanover), electress of Hanover and heir to the British throne, whose son became George I of Great Britain.

Sophie Charlotte of Hanover. Birth. 30 Oct 1668. Bad Iburg, Landkreis Osnabrück, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany. Death. 1 Feb 1705 (aged 36) Hanover, Region Hannover, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany. Burial. Berliner Dom.

Sophia of Hanover was born on 14 October 1630 in The Hague, the Netherlands, where her exiled parents, Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James VI and I and Anne of Denmark and Frederick V, Elector Palatine, lived. She was christened on 30 January 1631 in the Kloosterkerk in The Hague, where only three days earlier her elder sister Princess ...