The love of an uncrowned queen
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Sophie Dorothea of Celle, the uncrowned queen of the first of our Hanoverian kings, came of the ancient and illustrious family of Brunswick, which was descended from Henry the Lion, Duke of Bavaria and Saxony, who, it is interesting to note, married Matilda, eldest daughter of King Henry II. of England. It is not necessary to dwell upon the glories of the House of Brunswick, but the immediate ancestry of Sophie Dorothea may be of interest. After the Treaty of Westphalia, which was somewhat disastrous to the Brunswick princes who took part in the Thirty Years War, this family was divided into t...
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- THE LOVE OF AN UNCROWNED QUEEN
- PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION.
- CONTENTS.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- CHAPTER I. THE ROMANCE OF THE PRINCESS’S PARENTAGE.
- CHAPTER II. THE PROGRESS OF ELÉONORE. (1666-1676.)
- CHAPTER III. THE WISDOM OF SERPENTS. (1676-1681.)
- CHAPTER IV. PRINCE GEORGE GOES A-WOOING. (1681-1682.)
- CHAPTER V. THE SACRIFICE. (1682.)
- CHAPTER VI. THE COURT OF HANOVER. (1682-1684.)
- CHAPTER VII. THE POWER OF COUNTESS PLATEN. (1684-1688.)
- CHAPTER VIII. ENTER KÖNIGSMARCK. (1688-1689.)
- CHAPTER IX. PLAYING WITH FIRE. (1689.)
- CHAPTER X. THE EMBROIDERED GLOVE. (1690-1691.)
- CHAPTER XI. HISTORY AND AUTHENTICITY OF THE LETTERS.[55]
- CHAPTER XII. THE DAWN OF PASSION. (1691.)
- CHAPTER XIII. CROSSING THE RUBICON. (1692.)
- CHAPTER XIV. THE PRINCESS’S LETTERS.
- CHAPTER XV. DOUBTS AND FEARS.
- CHAPTER XVI. THE BATTLE OF STEINKIRK.
- CHAPTER XVII. THE VISIT TO WIESBADEN.
- CHAPTER XVIII. KÖNIGSMARCK RETURNS FROM THE WAR.
- CHAPTER XIX. THE TRYST AT BROCKHAUSEN.
- CHAPTER XX. LOVE’S BITTERNESS.
- CHAPTER XXI. THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE DANES.
- CHAPTER XXII. THE GATHERING STORM.
- CHAPTER XXIII. THE MURDER OF KÖNIGSMARCK.
- CHAPTER XXIV. THE RUIN OF THE PRINCESS.
- CHAPTER XXV. THE DIVORCE.
- CHAPTER XXVI. THE PRISONER OF AHLDEN.
- CHAPTER XXVII. THE FLIGHT OF YEARS. (1698-1714.)
- CHAPTER XXVIII. CROWN AND GRAVE. (1714-1726.)
- CHAPTER XXIX. RETRIBUTION. (1727.)
- APPENDIX. LIST OF AUTHORITIES QUOTED, AND BOOKS TO WHICH REFERENCE HAS BEEN MADE.
- UNPUBLISHED MSS.
- SOME PUBLISHED WORKS.
- INDEX.
- Footnotes
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