electress
Noun
Meaning
The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire.
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Abdication of Edward VIII Under the Act of Settlement, male-preference primogeniture succession of a Protestant legitimate descendant of the Electress Sophia is automatic and immediate, neither depending on, nor waiting for, any coronation.
Acton, p. 310. On 19 February 1743, the Dowager Electress Palatine Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici died, and the Grand Ducal line of the House of Medici died with her.
Provisions The Act of Settlement provided that the throne would pass to the Electress Sophia of Hanover – a granddaughter of James VI and I and a niece of King Charles I – and her descendants, but it excluded "all and every Person and Persons who..
Finally, his dear friend and defender, the Dowager Electress Sophia, died in 1714.
Hatton, pp.36, 42 Heiress of the crowns Sophia as dowager Electress of Hanover, around the time she was proclaimed heiress presumptive of the British crown.
It was the Electress Dowager, however, who, in accordance with Hohenzollern family custom, had the last word in bestowing her daughter's hand in marriage.