Descendants of the Stuarts

OF THE STUARTS. Ill
adherence to Catholicism ; and as such is noticed
in the order of succession.
Henrietta, third daughter of the Queen of
Bohemia, was born in 1626. She married, May
1650, George Kagotsky, Prince of Transylvania,
and died within three months of her nuptials, in
September of the same year, aged twenty-four.
But little is recorded of this princess in history.
She is said to have inherited all the amiable qualities
of her mother, " the Queen of Hearts," without
possessing the abilities and talents of her elder
sisters.
Sophia, fourth and youngest daughter of the
Queen of Bohemia, the mother of our George I.,
and the princess on whom the English crown was
settled by Act of Parliament, was born in Holland,
the 16th of October, 1630. She married, 1658,
Ernest Augustus, titular Bishop of Osnabruck, and
youngest brother of the reigning Duke of Hanover ;
a very derogatory alliance, as it was considered at
the time. This match was brought about by
Sophia's eldest brother, the Elector Palatine, who,
as he had the maintenance of his sister, was not
very particular as to how he disposed of her ; although
Sophia, of all his relatives, was dignified by his
peculiar regard. The Queen of Bohemia, their
mother, strongly opposed what she considered so
unsuitable an alliance for her youngest child ; but
without effect, for Charles Louis was not the one
to retrograde when once he had made up his mind.