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Jun 28, 2017 · Sophie would no longer be the last lady to enter the ballroom. Sophie had never put a foot wrong, but snubs would continue over the years. Nevertheless, in 1909, Sophie was bestowed the rank of Duchess of Hohenberg and style of “Ihre Hoheit” or “Your Highness”, but society remained distant.
Jun 26, 2014 · The sumptuous Baroque residence is a place heavy with history: this is where Anita von Hohenberg’s great-grandparents, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, the Duchess...
Sophie, Duchess von Hohenberg. (1868-1914) Born in Stuttgart on March 1st. Wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir-apparent to the Austro-Hungarian empire. Shot and killed along with her husband in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914.
Oct 27, 1990 · 24 July 1901 –. 27 October 1990) was the only daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, both of whom were assassinated in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. This assassination triggered the First World War, thus Sophie and her two brothers are sometimes described as the first orphans of the First World War.
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. While Sophie did not become empress as she had once hoped, since her husband ...
Sophie and Franz-Ferdinand marry on the first of July in Reichstadt (today Zakupy in Czechoslovakia) My great-grandmother, will later on receive the title of Princess of Hohenberg, and a few years later Duchess of Hohenberg. 1914. On June 28th Archduke Franz-Ferdinand and his wife are killed in Sarajevo.
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg was the wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Their assassination in Sarajevo sparked a series of events that led, four weeks later, to World War I.
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