Project Gutenberg 2025-06-27 Public domain in the USA. 418 Wilkins, W. H. (William Henry) 1860 1905 Wilkins, William Henry 19003642 The love of an uncrowned queen : $b Sophie Dorothea, consort of George I, and her correspondence with Philip Christopher, Count Königsmarck $aLondon :$bLongmans, Green, and Co., $c1903. "The love of an uncrowned queen : Sophie Dorothea, consort of George I, and her…." by W. H. Wilkins is a historical biography written in the early 20th century. It traces the life of Sophie Dorothea of Celle—her rise from disputed birth to duchess’s daughter, her ill-fated love with Count Königsmarck as revealed in their letters, and the court intrigues of Celle and Hanover that shaped her fate. The opening of the work combines a documentary preface with the first chapters of narrative. Wilkins recounts how he discovered and authenticated Sophie Dorothea’s and Königsmarck’s love-letters (chiefly at Lund, with further caches in Berlin and likely among the Guelph papers), and notes scholarly defenses of their genuineness before outlining his revisions. The story then steps back to the House of Brunswick: George William’s rejection of a political match with Princess Sophia of the Palatinate, Sophia’s marriage instead to Ernest Augustus, and George William’s morganatic union with the clever and ambitious Eléonore d’Olbreuse, who wins status for herself and their daughter, Sophie Dorothea. We see Eléonore’s calculated advance (imperial legitimization, new titles, and alliances), the hostile rivalry of Duchess Sophia, early mention of the youthful Königsmarck at Celle, and, in Hanover, the rise of Madame Platen and a corrupt, Versailles-like court—setting the political and personal stage for the drama to come. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/loveofuncrownedq00wilkiala 20230327174233wilkins 1903 GB Reading ease score: 74.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Sophia Dorothea, consort of George I, King of Great Britain, 1666-1726 Königsmarck, Christopher von, 1665-1694 DD Text Category: Biographies Category: History - European Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750) Category: History - Royalty 1258834 2025-07-30T07:58:26.995547 text/html 1219388 2025-06-27T11:11:22 text/html 6471205 2025-07-30T07:58:50.271423 application/epub+zip 6475529 2025-07-30T07:58:32.646528 application/epub+zip 661576 2025-07-30T07:58:29.026554 application/epub+zip 9279600 2025-07-30T07:59:01.754365 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 9177120 2025-07-30T07:58:46.655453 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1079008 2025-07-30T07:58:23.901545 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 1059166 2025-06-27T11:11:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14110 2025-07-30T07:59:01.921353 application/rdf+xml 15509 2025-07-30T07:58:29.355518 image/jpeg 2571 2025-07-30T07:58:29.193509 image/jpeg 7087914 2025-07-30T07:58:27.198524 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia