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Mother Frederica of Baden Prince Gustav of Vasa, Count of Itterburg [1] ( German : Gustav, Prinz von Wasa ; [2] 9 November 1799 at Stockholm – 4 August/5 August 1877 at Pillnitz ), born Crown Prince of Sweden , was the son of King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden and Queen Frederica .
Daughter of the King of Bavaria, Princess Sophie was married for political reasons to Archduke Franz Karl, second son of Emperor Franz, in 1824. She soon recognized the personal weaknesses of the men who now surrounded her, and although Franz enjoyed the image of the ‘good Emperor’, he was no longer young.
Oct 14, 2022 · Princess Sophie of Bavaria Melika Foroutan plays the role of Princess Sophie, the Tigress of Bavaria. She was the mother of Franz Joseph I and became the Archduchess of Austria after marrying Archduke Franz Karl of Austria.
In 1973, her father inherited the family name and style Duke in Bavaria from his great-uncle Duke Ludwig Wilhelm who had adopted him as heir in 1965; Sophie was then styled as HRH Duchess Sophie in Bavaria, Princess of Bavaria.
She arranged for a match between Franz Joseph and Helene, Duchess in Bavaria, the eldest daughter of her sister Ludovika of Bavaria and her husband Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria. In 1853, Helene traveled with her mother and her younger sister Elisabeth, Duchess in Bavaria (Sisi) to the resort of Bad Ischl, Upper Austria to meet her cousin ...
Sophie arranged for Franz to marry Duchess Helene, as it would legitimise the Austrian Empire's claim over Bavaria. Helene, her mother Princess Ludovika , and her sister Elisabeth travelled to Bad Ischl to meet Emperor Franz Joseph on his birthday.
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Princess Sophie Friederike Dorothea Wilhelmine of Bavaria was born on January 27, 1805 in Munich, the capital of the then-electorate of Bavaria. She was the daughter of Maximilian Joseph, Elector and later, the first King of Bavaria, with his second wife, Caroline of Baden.
