She Was His Queen. George I Locked Her Away, Destroyed Every Portrait, Deleted Her: Sophia Dorothea

She was the wife of King George I of Great Britain — the first Hanoverian monarch. On paper, she was Queen of England. In reality, she spent 32 years locked in a castle on a German heath, forbidden from seeing her own children, while her husband ordered every portrait of her face destroyed and her name erased from court history. Her name was ...