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Phillipine Charlotte Hohenzollern - Duchess

Biography


Birth: 1716
Death: 1801

Daughter of King Friedrich Wilhelm I (1688-1740) of Prussia and Sophia Dorothea (1685-1757). Sister of King Frederick II the Great. Married (1733) to Charles I.

Also known as

  • Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg
  • Herzogin von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
  • Philippine Charlotte von Preußen

Life with James Boswell

Boswell was introduced to the Duchess at the Court of Brunswick on June 27, 1764.

Mentioned in

Phillipine Charlotte Hohenzollern is mentioned in:

  • Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland 1763-1764

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