George Christian grew up with his brother at the court in Aurich. After 1649, they received further education at the academies of Breda and T*bingen. In T*bingen he met his future wife, Christine Charlotte, a daughter of Duke Eberhard III of W*rttemberg from his first marriage to Anna Dorothea of Salm-Kyrburg. He could only marry _her_ after had he received the hereditary title of Imperial Prince on 18 April 1662. <sep>, Pronoun: her <sep>, A: Christine Charlotte <sep>, B: Anna Dorothea