| 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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| HRH Princess George William of Hanover HRH Princess Christoph of Hesse HRH Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark |
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| Royal 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 (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. Sophie was born at Villa Mon Repos on the island of Corfu in Greece.
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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 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.
Sophie was first married to Prince Christoph of Hesse 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.
They had five children:
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.
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:
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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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| Monarchical Styles of Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark |
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| Reference style: | HRH |
| Spoken style: | Your Royal Highness |
| Alternative style: | Ma'am |
Sophie died on 3 November 2001 in Munich, Germany. She was survived by her husband.
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