As Sophia in the spring of 1701 by the Act of Settlement was declared heir to the British throne, Liselotte (who would have had a better claim if she hadn't become Catholic) commented on 15 May in a letter to her half-sister Raugräfin Luise: "I would rather be elector than king in England. The English humor and their parliament are not my business, my aunt is better than me; she will also know how to deal with them better than I would have done".