Sophie of Greece
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Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark (born June 26, 1914 in Mon Repos Castle on Corfu , Kingdom of Greece ; † November 24, 2001 in Munich , Germany ) was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg family and last living sister of Philip , Duke of Edinburgh .
parents
Sophie was the fourth daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (1882-1944) and his wife Alice von Battenberg (1885-1969), who had married in 1903, and the paternal granddaughter of King George I of Greece and Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna Romanowa , a niece of Tsar Alexander II. Her maternal grandparents were Prince Ludwig von Battenberg, later Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven , and Princess Viktoria of Hessen-Darmstadt and bei Rhein , who was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria .
siblings
- Margarita (1905–1981) ⚭ 1931 Gottfried Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1897–1960)
- Theodora (1906–1969) ⚭ 1931 Berthold Margrave of Baden (1906–1963)
- Cecilia (1911–1937) ⚭ 1931 Georg Donatus von Hessen-Darmstadt (1906–1937), they died with two of their three children in an air accident
- Philip (* 1921) ⚭ 1947 Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Marriage and children
Sophie married on December 15, 1930 in Kronberg im Taunus at the age of 16, the 29-year-old Christoph Prinz von Hessen (1901-1943), the youngest son of Friedrich Karl von Hessen , head of the House of Hessen-Kassel, and his wife Margarethe von Prussia , a daughter of Emperor Friedrich III. and granddaughter of Queen Victoria . The marriage had five children:
- Christina (1933-2011)
- Dorothea Charlotte (* 1934)
- Karl (* 1937)
- Rainer (* 1939)
- Clarissa (born 1944)
After the death of her husband Christoph, who died on October 7, 1943 in a plane crash in the Apennines , near Forlì , Italy , Sophie married the somewhat younger Georg Wilhelm Prince of Salem on April 23, 1946 Hanover (1915–2006), younger son of the last ruling Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Ernst August III. and his wife Viktoria Luise von Prussia , daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II. This second marriage resulted in three more children.
- Welf Ernst August Andreas (1947–1981)
- Georg Paul Christian (* 1949)
- Friederike Elisabeth (* 1954)
Death and burial
Sophie died on November 24, 2001 at the age of 87 in Munich . Her second husband, seven of her eight children, and her brother Philip survived. She was buried in the cemetery in the Upper Bavarian municipality of Schliersee .
Individual evidence
- ↑ worldhistory.de
- ↑ genealogics.org
- ^ Sophia zu Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Princess of Greece and Denmark on thepeerage.com , accessed on October 4, 2015.
- ↑ royaltyguide.nl
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sophie of Greece |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sophie of Greece and Denmark |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Princess of Greece and Denmark |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Corfu |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 24, 2001 |
| Place of death | Munich |