Talk:Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom
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[edit] Date
Birthdate differs from Find-A-Grave. Lincher 12:20, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Marriage?
The section headed "marriage" contains no reference to any marriage she may have made, only to rumors of incestuous relations with her brother. Was she ever married? --Jfruh (talk) 20:04, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
- She was never married. Everything else is baseless rumor: she was rumored to be the mother of an illegitimate son, Thomas Garth, either by her brother, Ernest, Duke of Cumberland, or by Maj-Gen. Thomas Garth. There's no credible evidence she was actually a mother. - Nunh-huh 20:10, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
But sometimes rumours do have a basis. I don't know whether Sophia had a child by her brother but strongly suspect that she had an illegitimate child. My great-great-great-grandfather (a lawyer) emigrated from Winchester, England, to New York and then, as a consequence of serving with the British against the Americans, emigrated to Nova Scotia at the end of the American Revolutionary War. He was known to have some social interaction with at least two of the sons of George III, namely, William IV when visiting Halifax, Nova Scotia, before his succession to the throne and the Edward, Duke of Kent (Queen Victoria's father) who served as Governor of Nova Scotia. My ancestor (my great-great-great-grandfather) raised a foster child of whom two present-day descendants I have met claim (according to their family story) was an illegitimate child of the royal family though neither of them are claiming descent from Ernest Augustus and/or Sophia. Family stories are often fiction rather than truth. Further, the British royal family didn't normally hide their illegitimate children. They often gave them titles. However, the facts are interesting in this case. The well-dressed child was delivered to my ancestor at his island home in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, by a British ship. My ancestor was paid to look after the child by person unknown. One of the descendants has a letter written to my ancestor by a friend in London who made inquiries to ascertain the source of the funds but was unable to determine their source. If Sophia had an illegitimate child, the royal family might well have wished to hide the fact whether or not her brother was the father, unlike the case of an illegitimate child of one of her brothers -- the old double standard. My ancestor was well known to at least some members of the royal family (and he came from a well-established English family -- his grandfather had been a mayor of Winchester; his cousin was a British general; etcetera). My ancestor was living in the colonies, well away from the royal court. Anyway, seems plausible to me. A little DNA testing? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hebbgd (talk • contribs) 22:03, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
