Sophie Princess of Greece and Denmark
- Category : 1914-births
- Type : PE
- Profile : 6/2 - Role Model / Hermit
- Definition : Split - Small (22,36,45)
- Incarnation Cross : LAX Prevention 1
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, Earl of Wessex.