Sophia of Hanover was born in 1630. She was the granddaughter of King James I of England and the wife of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Sophia was a descendant of the House of Hanover, which would later become the ruling house of Great Britain. Sophia's son, George I, ascended to the British throne in 1714.
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