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CHAPTER XXIX.

RETRIBUTION 437

APPENDIX 445

INDEX 447

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

SOPHIE DOROTHEA. _From a painting formerly at Ahlden_ _Frontispiece._

ELÉONORE D’OLBREUSE, DUCHESS OF CELLE. _From a _Facing page_ 8 painting at Herrenhausen_

THE CASTLE OF CELLE ” ” 26

PRINCE GEORGE LOUIS OF HANOVER (AFTERWARDS GEORGE I. ” ” 40 OF ENGLAND). _From a picture at Hanover_

THE ELECTRESS SOPHIA. _Photographed from the statue ” ” 56 in the gardens of Herrenhausen_

THE ALTE PALAIS, HANOVER. _From a photograph by the ” ” 74 Author_

KÖNIGSMARCK. _From the painting at Herrenhausen_ ” ” 94

THE LEINE SCHLOSS, HANOVER ” ” 110

THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, LUND, SWEDEN ” ” 128

FACSIMILE OF ONE OF KÖNIGSMARCK’S LETTERS TO THE ” ” 146 PRINCESS. _Photographed from the original manuscript in the University Library of Lund_

FACSIMILE OF ONE OF SOPHIE DOROTHEA’S LETTERS TO ” ” 174 KÖNIGSMARCK. _Photographed from the original manuscript in the University Library of Lund_

SOPHIE DOROTHEA. _From a painting formerly at ” ” 190 Ahlden, now at Herrenhausen_

FACSIMILE OF ONE OF THE PRINCESS’S LETTERS TO ” ” 206 KÖNIGSMARCK. _Photographed from the original manuscript in the University Library at Lund_

PHILIP CHRISTOPHER COUNT KÖNIGSMARCK. _From a painting ” ” 224 in the possession of Count Gustav Lewenhaupt_

THE COUNTESS AURORA KÖNIGSMARCK. _From the painting in ” ” 244 the possession of Count C. G. von Rosen_

HERRENHAUSEN ” ” 270

THE ELECTOR ERNEST AUGUSTUS OF HANOVER. _From an old ” ” 290 print in the British Museum_

THE MURDER OF KÖNIGSMARCK. _From an old print_ ” ” 348

THE CASTLE OF AHLDEN AS IT WAS WHEN SOPHIE DOROTHEA ” ” 362 WAS IMPRISONED THERE. _From an old engraving in the Castle_

THE CASTLE OF AHLDEN AS IT IS TO-DAY ” ” 376

SOPHIE DOROTHEA’S WING OF THE CASTLE OF AHLDEN. _From ” ” 400 a photograph by the Author_

SOPHIE DOROTHEA, SECOND QUEEN OF PRUSSIA (DAUGHTER OF ” ” 424 SOPHIE DOROTHEA AND GEORGE I.). _From the painting by Johann L. Hirschmann_

THE CHURCH AT CELLE, WHERE SOPHIE DOROTHEA IS BURIED ” ” 438

THE CASTLE OF OSNABRÜCK ” ” 442