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Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia

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Princess Sophia Dorothea with her husband Friedrich Wilhelm, by Antoine Pesne

Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia (German:Sophia Dorothea Marie von Preußen) (born Berlin, 25 January 1719; died Schwedt, 13 November 1765) was the ninth child and fifth daughter of Frederick William I of Prussia and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover.

On 10 November 1734 in Potsdam, Sophia Dorothea married her Hohenzollern kinsman Friedrich Wilhelm, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt. They had five children: