--Previous Message-- : : I am glad I can finally do something for you : Nellie as you : Put an incredible amount of energy and : expertise into your answers on this : board!!!! : : Also thank you Board Administrator for this : wonderful venue. : --Previous Message-- : : Thank you TMN. Much appreciated. : : --Previous Message-- : Queen Charlotte told Miss Burney (her woman : of : the bedchamber) in 1786 : : "...We have Protestant nunneries in : Germany. I belonged to one which was under : Imperial protection; there is one for royal : families- : one for the noblesse" : : She was "Sophie Charlotte P.v.M. : Chanoinesse de l'abbaye libre Imperiale de : Hervorden" : : I believe one of the daughters of the Winter : Queen, Elizabeth of Bohemia also joined this : convent. : : Elizabeth, daughter of Frederick the Elector : Palatine (King of Bohemia, where the Czech : republic now lies) and Elizabeth Stuart : (daughter of James I of England) : : "The convent was that of Herford in : Westphalia, reformed during the 16th century : and prominent among foundations of its kind : until its secularization in 1803. Princess : Sophie Charlotte and Princess Christiane : (her sister) had both been invested as : Canonesses of Herford on 7 March : 1760....." : : : all taken from Olwen Hedley's "Queen : Charlotte" and the passages I copied : here can be found on page 29. : : : : : :
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