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The Crown Prince was the son of King William I of Prussia, and the Princess Royal was the eldest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Frederick William and Victoria were already the parents of a large family and as the penultimate child, Sophie was eleven years younger than her eldest brother, the future William II of Germany .
Anne (centre) and her sister Mary (left) with their parents, the Duke and Duchess of York, painted by Peter Lely and Benedetto Gennari II. Anne was born at 11:39 p.m. on 6 February 1665 at St James's Palace, London, the fourth child and second daughter of the Duke of York (later King James II and VII), and his first wife, Anne Hyde. [1]
Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia (German: Sophia Dorothea Marie von Preußen; 25 January 1719 – 13 November 1765) was the ninth child and fifth daughter of Frederick William I of Prussia and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover.
Sophie of Prussia may refer to: Duchess Sophie of Prussia (1582–1610) Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1685–1735), Queen of Prussia; Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia (1719–1765) Sophia of Prussia (1870–1932), Queen of the Hellenes, wife of King Constantine I; Sophie, Princess of Prussia (born 1978) wife of Georg Friedrich ...
The Princess Sophia's Precedence Act 1711 (10 Ann. c. 8) is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.. It reiterated the Act of Settlement 1701, that the line of succession to the British throne, in the absence of any children of Queen Anne, passed directly to Electress Sophia of Hanover and "the heirs of her body being Protestants".
Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, has officially been a member of the British royal family since she wed Prince Edward—Queen Elizabeth II’s youngest son—25 years ago in 1999. But since the ...
Eden’s statement comes days after Edward, 60, and Sophie, 59, were asked to lead royal duties for the first time on behalf of King Charles III as he undergoes treatment for cancer.
She has two sisters, Archduchess Katharina of Austria-Este and Isabelle, Dowager Princess of Wied, and two brothers, Alexander, 10th Prince of Isenburg, and Prince Viktor. [3] Growing up at Birstein Castle, the family seat in Hesse, Sophie studied at a primary school in Birstein and at Marienschule Fulda in Fulda. [4]