Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark
| Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark | |
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| Princess Christoph of Hesse Princess George William of Hanover |
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| Spouse | Prince Christoph of Hesse (1930–1943) Prince George William of Hanover (1946–2001) |
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| Princess Christine of Hesse Princess Dorothea of Hesse Prince Karl of Hesse Prince Rainer of Hesse Princess Clarissa of Hesse Prince Welf Ernst of Hanover Prince Georg of Hanover Princess Friederike of Hanover |
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| House | House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg House of Hesse-Kassel House of Hanover |
| Father | Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark |
| Mother | Princess Alice of Battenberg |
| Born | June 26, 1914 Villa Mon Repos, Corfu, Greece |
| Died | November 3, 2001 (aged 87) Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark (Greek: Πριγκίπισσα Σοφία της Ελλάδας και Δανίας) (26 June 1914 – 3 November 2001) was the fourth child and youngest daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg, making her the elder sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Sophie was born at Villa Mon Repos on the island of Corfu in Greece.
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[edit] Ancestry and family
Through her father, Sophie was a grandchild of George I of Greece and Olga Konstantinova of Russia. Through Queen Olga of Greece, she was a great-great-granddaughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia. Through her mother she was a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Albert, Prince Consort. Her mother was a granddaughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Sophie was the sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the husband and consort of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. She also had three sisters, Princess Theodora, Princess Cecilie, and Princess Margarita.
[edit] First marriage
Sophie was first married to Prince Christoph of Hesse (1901–1943) on 15 December 1930 in Kronberg, Berlin, Germany; she was 16. The son of Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse and Princess Margaret of Prussia, Christoph was a great-grandson of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha through their eldest daughter Victoria, Princess Royal, wife of Frederick III, German Emperor. On 7 October 1943 Prince Christoph died in an airplane accident in the Apennine hills near Forlì, in Italy. His body was found two days later. The Almanach de Gotha, however, states that he was killed in action during the German Invasion of Italy.
They had five children:
- HH Princess Christina Margarethe of Hesse (b. Kronberg im Taunus, Hesse, 10 January 1933-21 November 2011), married first in Kronberg im Taunus on 2 August 1956 Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia (1929–1990), and had issue, divorcing in London in 1962; and married secondly in London on 3 December 1962 Robert Floris van Eyck (1916–1991, a London poet, artist and art restorer),[1][2][3][4] the son of Pieter Nicolaas van Eyck (a poet, essayist, critic and philosopher) and Nelly Estelle Benjamins,[5][6][7] and had issue.
- Princess Maria Tatiana, (b. 1957)
- Prince Christopher, (1960–1994)
- Helene Sophia van Eyck (London b. 25 October 1963), married 24 January 1986 (civilly) to Roderick Alan Harman, and had issue; {divorced in 1986}
- Sascha Alexandra Sophia Harman (b. Buchanan Hospital, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, Sussex, 26 July 1986)
- Pascale Olivia Harman (b. Buchanan Hospital, (St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, Sussex, 19 March 1989)
- Marc Nicholas Van Eyck, b. 1966, married (civilly) on 12 June 1992 in London to Joanne Marea Green (b. Timaru, New Zealand 11 October 1961. They have since separated.
- HH Princess Dorothea Charlotte Karin of Hesse (b. Schloss Panker, 24 July 1934), married civilly at Schliersee, Upper Bavaria, on 31 March 1959 and religiously in Munich on 1 April 1959 to HSH Friedrich Karl, Prince zu Windisch-Grätz (Heiligenberg, Baden, 7 July 1917 – Gersau, 29 May 2002), and had issue.
- HH Prince Karl Adolf Andreas of Hesse (b. Berlin, 26 March 1937), married at The Hague civilly on 26 March 1966 and religiously on 18 April 1966 to Yvonne Margit Valerie, Countess Szapáry von Muraszombath, Széchysziget und Szapár (b. Budapest, 4 April 1944), and had issue, two children:
- Prince Christoph of Hesse (b. Munich, 18 June 1969), unmarried and without issue.
- Princess Irina of Hesse (b. Munich, 1 April 1971), married civilly in Berlin on 30 April 1999 and religiously at Heusenstamm on 29 May 1999 to H Ill H Alexander, Count von Schönburg-Glauchau (b. Mogadishu, Somalia, 15 August 1969), and had issue.
- HH Prince Rainer Christoph Friedrich of Hesse (b. Kronberg im Taunus, 18 November 1939), unmarried and without issue.
- HH Princess Clarissa Alice of Hesse (b. Kronberg im Taunus, 6 February 1944), married in Paris on 20 July 1971 and divorced in 1976 to Claude Jean Derrien (b. Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, 12 March 1948), son of Jean Guillaume Derrien and wife Jacqueline Laine, without issue; she went on to have a daughter by an unknown father:
- Johanna Sophia/Sophie von Hessen (b. Munich, 25 August 1980)
[edit] Second marriage
Sophie then married Prince George William of Hanover on 23 April 1946 in Salem, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. George was the son of Ernest Augustus III, Duke of Brunswick and his wife Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia, the only daughter of Wilhelm II, German Emperor and Princess Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein.
Together they had three children:
| Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
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| Prince Welf Ernst of Hanover | 25 January 1947 | 10 January 1981 | Married on 23 May 1969, to Wibke van Gunsteren (born: 26 November 1948). One daughter:
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| Prince Georg of Hanover | 9 December 1949 | Married on 15 September 1973, to Victoria Anne Bee (born: 6 March 1951). Two daughters:
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| Princess Friederike of Hanover | 15 October 1954 | Married on 17 August 1979, to Jerry William Cyr (born: 16 January 1951). They had two children:
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[edit] Death
| Styles of Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark |
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| Reference style | Her Royal Highness |
| Spoken style | Your Royal Highness |
| Alternative style | Ma'am |
Sophie died on 3 November 2001 in Munich, Germany. She was survived by her husband, seven of her eight children and her younger brother, Prince Philip.
[edit] Titles, styles, honours and arms
[edit] Titles and styles
- 26 June 1914 – 15 December 1930: Her Royal Highness Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark
- 15 December 1930 – 23 April 1946: Her Royal Highness Princess Christoph of Hesse
- 23 April 1946 – 3 November 2001: Her Royal Highness Princess George William of Hanover
[edit] Ancestry
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/hoor009ahil01_01/hoor009ahil01_01_0153.htm (in Dutch)
- ^ http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/gres002svan02_01/gres002svan02_01_0658.htm (in Dutch)
- ^ "Milestones: Mar. 2, 1962". TIME. 1962-03-02. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,939908-1,00.html. Retrieved 2012-01-10.
- ^ "Milestones: Feb. 25, 1966". TIME. 1966-02-25. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,835176,00.html?promoid=googlep. Retrieved 2012-01-10.
- ^ http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/BWN/lemmata/bwn1/eijk (in Dutch)
- ^ Marlene A. Eilers, Queen Victoria's Descendants (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987), page 167
- ^ http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Fallece/Aldo/van/Eyck/arquitecto/clave/estructuralismo/holandes/elpepicul/19990116elpepicul_6/Tes/ (in Spanish)
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