Thursday, September 20, 2007

Sophia of Prussia
Sophie Dorothea Ulrike Alice of Prussia (June 14, 1870January 13, 1932), was a Queen consort of Greece
She was born in Potsdam, Germany in 1870 to then Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia and Victoria, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom, herself the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
She was a sister to William II, German Emperor, Princesses Charlotte, Margrete and Viktoria of Prussia, as well as, Prince Heinrich, Princes Waldemar and Sigismund; the two latter died before she was born.
She is the paternal grandmother of her namesake, Queen Sofia of Spain and ex-King Constantine II of the Hellenes.

Marriage and Children
She left Greece on June 11, 1917 with her husband (who abdicated because of his alleged pro-German sentiments) and they went into exile to Switzerland, but were recalled to the throne shortly after their second son Alexander's death from an infected monkey bite. Her husband was forced to abdicate a second time after defeat in a war with Turkey in 1922, and he died early the following year.

Exiles of Husband
During World War I Queen Sophie had been wrongly seen in Greece as very pro-German because her brother was Kaiser Wilhelm II. Like her mother, she was passionately pro-British.

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