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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 895 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COUNT OF PHILIPP CHRISTOPH See also:KONIGSMARK (1665-1694)  , was a member of a See also:noble See also:Swedish See also:family, and is chiefly known as the See also:lover of See also:Sophia Dorothea, wife of the See also:English See also:king See also:George I. then electoral See also:prince of See also:Hanover . See also:Born on the 14th of See also:March 1665, See also:Konigsmark was a See also:brother of the countess noticed above . After wandering and fighting in various parts of See also:Europe he entered the service of Ernest See also:Augustus, elector of Hanover . Here he made the acquaintance of Sophia Dorothea, and assisted her in one or two futile attempts to See also:escape from Hanover . Regarded, rightly or wrongly, as the lover of the princess, he was seized, and disappeared from See also:history, probably by assassination, on the 1st of See also:July 1694 . One authority states that George". was accustomed to boast about this See also:deed; but this statement is doubted, and the Hanoverian See also:court resolutely opposed all efforts to clear up the See also:mystery . It is not absolutely certain that Sophia Dorothea was guilty of a criminal intrigue with Konigsmark, as it is probable that the letters which purport to have passed between the pair are forgeries . The question of her See also:guilt or innocence, however, has been and still remains a fruitful and popular subject for See also:romance and See also:speculation . See Briefwechsel See also:des Grafen Konigsmark and der Prinzessin Sophie Dorothea von See also:Celle, edited by W . F . Palmblad (See also:Leipzig, 1847.); A . Kocher, " See also:Die Prinzessin von Ahlden," in the Historische Zestschrift (See also:Munich, 1882); and W .

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Wilkins, The Love of an Uncrowned See also:Queen (See also:London, 1900) .

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