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Archduchess Sophie of Austria (5 March 1855 – 29 May 1857) was the first child of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. She died aged two.
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (German: Sophie Marie Josephine Albina Gräfin Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin; Czech: Žofie Marie Josefína Albína hraběnka Chotková z Chotkova a Vojnína; 1 March 1868 – 28 June 1914) was the wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.
Archduchess Sophie: The ‘secret empress’. Sophie’s hour came in 1848, when the ailing emperor Ferdinand abdicated in favour of his nephew, the 18-year-old Franz Joseph, in Olmütz, where the imperial family had taken refuge from the turmoil of the revolution.
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Sophie Franziska Maria Germaine Habsburg also known as Archduchess Sophie of Austria (born on 19 January 1959) is a French-born Italian designer, German aristocrat and former model.
Jan 4, 2018 · Her melancholy and distaste for public life was treated as a childish indulgence by her distracted husband and his mother, the formidable Archduchess Sophie.
One such woman was Archduchess Sophie, the mother of Emperor Franz Joseph. The painting is a perfect allegory: Archduchess Sophie is seen leading her son Franz Joseph the last few steps to a throne upon which the imperial insignia already await him – what the proud mother had prepared him for since his earliest childhood has now become ...
The Sarajevo incident refers to the events surrounding the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Archduchess Sophie during a state visit to Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. It is traditionally regarded as the immediate catalyst for the First World War.
