Happy Posthumous Birthday Prince Octavius of Great Britain
(2/23/1749 - 5/3/1783)
Today is the 273rd birthday of the late Prince Octavius son of King George III or as we called him Prince #8.
Electress Sophia of Hanover (POS. Queen Sophia of Great Britain)
(14 October 1630 – 8 June 1714) Her Most Serene Highness Electress Sophia of Hanover and Princess Palatine of the Rhine The Electress Sophia was a very wise woman who brought numerous scientific innovations to her husband's Electorate of Hanover and was the following patron of her good friend Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz after her brother-in-law, John Frederick of Brunswick-Calenberg. As the granddaughter of King James VI of Scotland & I of England, she soon became the heir presumptive of the two kingdoms and their successor state of Great Britain when the ambition for a Protestant heir was reinforced by the Act of Settlement 1701 restricting the throne to her and her descendants. Everyone up to the grandchildren of Lord Martin Vogel, 5,750th in line to the British throne, is a direct descendant of hers either through one or more degrees.
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