Sofia Albertina, Princess of Sweden

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Sofia Albertina was daughter of king Adolf Frederick of Sweden and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia. She thus was princess of Sweden, princess of Holstein-Gottorp and a heir of Norway.

She was given her two names as namesake of her two grandmothers: queen Sofia Dorothea of Prussia (daughter of George I of Great Britain) and Albertina Frederica, princess of Holstein-Gottorp-Eutin.

Her adult life took place during the reigns of her brother Gustav III of Sweden and Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden.

In Stockholm, a palace was built as her residence, known today as Arvfurstens Palats.

She became the Abbess of Quedlinburg, a protestant convent of women in Germany, and as such was the princess-abbess, head of that small state directly under the Holy Roman Empire 1787-1803 until finally deposed. In 1802 mediatization of such smaller states was started Napoleon.

She remained unmarried and died in 1808, her nephew's reign (he was to deposed the next year).

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