ON the night of July I, 1694, Philip Christopher of Konigsmark, a Swedish nobleman in the service of the Elector of Saxony, was assassinated in a corridor of the ducal palace of Hanover, Whilst leaving the room of Princess Sophia Dorothea whose lover he was. The circumstances connected with this assas sination have often been described, and the story of the loves of Sophia Dorothea and Konigsmark has often been told, as reconstructed by various German and Scandinavian scholars. Unfortunately these scholars, although in possession of numbers of docu ments which might have enabled them to present the facts in their true historic light, could not resist the temptation of dressing them up to suit their own fancy, the effect of which has been not only to rob their works of any serious value, but even to discredit the sources from which they have been drawn. Thus, for instance, it has come about that the love-letters of Sophia Dorothea and Konigsmark, which have been at the public disposal since 1848, in the library of the Swedish University at Lund, have had to wait more than half a century for some one to take the trouble to read and publish them.

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