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Electress

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E`lect´ress    (ė`lĕk´trĕs)
n.1.The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire.


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The Act of Settlement says that in order to qualify as our head of state you must be an heir of the body of Princess Sophia, electress of Hanover, a Protestant in communion with the Church of England not marry a Roman Catholic, not be adopted and have parents who were married at the time they conceived you.
It was a tribute to Electress Palatine, the last of the Medici family, that in his testament clearly expressed the desire that the Church was completed.
The Act provided that the throne would pass to the Protestant Electress, Sophia of Hanover, granddaughter of James I of England, VI of Scotland, niece of Charles I.
 
 
 
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