Sophie, Princess of Greece and Denmark
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| born on | 26 June 1914 at 06:00 (= 06:00 AM ) | ||||
| Place | Corfu, Greece, 39n36, 19e56 | ||||
| Timezone | LST m23e43 (is standard time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   03°43'   04°33 Asc. 17°57'
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Biography
Princess of Greece and Denmark, as the fourth child and youngest daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg. The Duke of Edinburgh (husband of Queen Elizabeth II) is her younger brother.
Although the youngest of four sisters, Sophie was the first to wed, marrying her second cousin-once-removed Prince Christoph of Hesse (1901–1943) on 15 December 1930 in Kronberg, Berlin; she was 16. They had five children. A director in the Third Reich's Ministry of Air Forces and a commander in the German Air Reserves, Christoph held the rank of Oberführer in the Nazi SS. On 7 October 1943, he was killed in an airplane accident in a war zone of the Apennine mountains near Forlì, Italy. His body was found two days later.
Sophie's second marriage was to her cousin Prince George William of Hanover on 23 April 1946 in Salem, Baden. Together they had three children.
Until her death on 3 November 2001 in Munich, Sophie was a frequent visitor to her brother, Prince Philip and her sister-in-law, Queen Elizabeth II. She was a godmother to their son, Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh.
Relationships
- child->parent relationship with Alice, Princess (1885) (born 25 February 1885)
- child->parent relationship with Andrew, Prince of Greece and Denmark (born 20 January 1882 Jul.Cal. (1 Feb 1882 greg.))
- spouse relationship with Christoph, Prince of Hesse (born 14 May 1901). Notes: 1930-1943
- spouse relationship with Georg Wilhelm, Prince of Hanover (1915) (born 25 March 1915). Notes: 1946-2001
- sibling relationship with Cecilie, Princess of Greece and Denmark (born 22 June 1911)
- sibling relationship with Margarita, Princess of Greece and Denmark (born 18 April 1905)
- sibling relationship with Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born 10 June 1921)
- sibling relationship with Theodora, Princess of Greece and Denmark (1906) (born 13 May 1906)
- other kin relationship with Geórgios I, King of Greece (born 24 December 1845). Notes: Grandkin
- other kin relationship with Victoria, Princess of Hesse and by Rhine (born 5 April 1863). Notes: Grandkin
- has other family relationship with Berthold, Margrave of Baden (born 24 February 1906). Notes: Siblings-in-law
- has other family relationship with Edward, Duke of Edinburgh (born 10 March 1964). Notes: Sophie was Edward's godmother
- has other family relationship with Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom (born 21 April 1926). Notes: Siblings-in-law
Events
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield cites a letter written by her grandmother, Princess Victoria of Hesse-Darmstadt, quoted in "Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece" by Hugo Vickers (Hamish Hamilton, 2000): "There was good news on 26 June. 'Well, the baby is there at last,' wrote Victoria. 'She (alas) made her appearance at 6 a.m.'"
Categories
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (Two)
- Family : Parenting : Kids more than 3 (Eight)
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 87)
- Notable : Famous : Royal family (House of Glücksburg)