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The fourth of five children of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg, Sophie spent a happy childhood. Her early years, however, were affected by the First World War (1914–1918) and the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922).
- 30 November 2001, Schliersee, Bavaria, Germany
- Glücksburg
Sofía (born Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark, Greek: Σοφία; 2 November 1938) is a member of the Spanish royal family who was Queen of Spain from 1975 to 2014 as the wife of King Juan Carlos I. She is the first child of Paul of Greece and Frederica of Hanover.
- 22 November 1975 – 19 June 2014
- Frederica of Hanover
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Jun 8, 2020 · Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark was born on 26 June 1914 as the fourth daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg. Her grandmother Victoria arrived in early June to be with Alice as she gave birth, but Sophie arrived rather late.
She then gave birth to five children: Christina (1933–2011), Dorothea (born 1934), Karl (1937–2022), Rainer (born 1939) and Clarissa of Hesse (born 1944). Close to the Nazi circles, in which her husband and several of her in-laws were involved from 1930, Sophie joined the National Socialist Women's League in 1938.
Oct 9, 2023 · Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark shared her childhood with four siblings: Princess Margarita, Princess Theodora, Princess Cecille of Greece and Denmark, and Prince Philip, who later became the Duke of Edinburgh. However, her early years were anything but tranquil.
Jun 9, 2020 · On 7 October 1943, Christoph and another pilot named Wilhelm Gsteu embarked on a Siebel 204 and around 5.30 p.m. the plane crashed into a mountain near Monte Collino in the Apennine Mountains. Their bodies were not found until two days later. They were eventually buried in a cemetery near Forli.
When Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark was born on 26 June 1914, in Kérkyra, Corfu, Greece, her father, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, was 32 and her mother, Princess Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie of Battenberg, was 29. She married Prinz Christoph Ernst August von Hessen-Kassel on 15 December 1930, in Kronberg im Taunus ...
