Early Life
Born Baroness Sophia Charlotte von Platen und Hallermund (probably in Osnabrück), she was the daughter of Clara Elisabeth von Meysenburg, Baroness von Platen und Hallermund (1648–1700) and Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover. Her mother's husband, Franz Ernst, Baron von Platen (1631–1709) was officially described as her father (as indeed he was in that, at the time, the child of a married woman was conclusively presumed to be the child of her husband) but the fact that she was the illegitimate daughter of the Elector was acknowledged at court. When her "father" was accorded a comital title in 1689, she became Countess Sophia.
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