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Sophie's mother described the event to Queen Victoria: "The Christening went off well, but was sad and serious; anxious faces and tearful eyes, and a gloom and foreshadowing of all the misery in store spread a cloud over the ceremony, which should have been one of gladness and thanksgiving". [3]
In medieval typology, Bathsheba is recognized as the antetype foreshadowing the role of Ecclesia, the church personified, as David was the antetype for Jesus. [17] As a queen and mother, she was also associated with the Blessed Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven. Bathsheba's son, King Solomon, rises to greet her, bows down in veneration, and ...
Once the monarchy was restored in Greece in 1946, [178] Sophie was invited to Athens by her mother, Princess Alice, some time later, in 1948. [205] In the years that followed, Sophie and George William got closer to their brother-in-law, King Paul of Greece, and to his family. Queen Frederica thus came to consider Sophie as her best friend. [213]
Sophie of Württemberg (Sophie Friederike Matilda; 17 June 1818 – 3 June 1877) was Queen of the Netherlands as the first wife of King William III. [1] Sophie separated from William in 1855 but continued to perform her duties as queen in public. She was known for her progressive and liberal views and corresponded with several famous intellectuals.
Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom—2022 marks 70 years since her ascension to the throne. Next in line on the royal family tree is Prince Charles, her son ...
Doña Sofía (Sophia Margaret Victoria Frederica of Greece and Denmark, Greek: Σοφία; born 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 until his abdication. She is the eldest child of King Paul of Greece and his wife, Queen Frederica.
Sophia Charlotte of Hanover (1668–1705), Queen in Prussia; Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1685–1735), Queen in Prussia; Sophia Dorothea of Hanover (1687–1747), Queen in Prussia; Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1700–1770), Queen of Denmark and Norway; Sophia Magdalena of Denmark (1748–1813), Queen of Sweden; Sophie of ...
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 ...