Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Bevern

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Elizabeth Christine of Brunswick-Bevern (8 November 1715, Wolfenbüttel – 13 January 1797) was a Prussian queen, queen consort of king Frederick II of Prussia.

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She was born the daughter of Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburg. On 12 June 1733 she married Frederick II of Prussia at her father's estate in Salzdahlum. Before the wedding the couple acted in a pastoral. The best flute player of the three shepherds got her hand. The next day an opera by Carl Heinrich Graun was performed. Then she moved with him to Neu-Ruppin and later to the palace at Rheinsberg.

As this was an involuntary marriage, Frederick almost completely ignored Elizabeth and the marriage did not result in children. Directly following his father's death, Frederick initiated the break up between the two. After Frederick became King in 1740, Elisabeth lived apart from him in Schönhausen Palace, nowadays in the north of Berlin, which she got as a present. He never came to see her and she was never invited to his palace Sanssouci in Potsdam. The couple met at family reunions. As there was no offspring, the king had many concerns for dynastic obligations.

She wrote books, about morals, in French.

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• Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Bevern at Find-A-Grave

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Preceded by Sophia Dorothea of Hanover	Electress of Brandenburg 1740 – 1786	Succeeded by Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt
Preceded by Sophia Dorothea of Hanover	Queen in Prussia 1740 – 1772	Succeeded by Title changed.
Preceded by New title.	Queen of Prussia 1772 – 1786	Succeeded by Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt