Princess Sophie of Luxembourg

Princess Sophie Caroline Marie Wilhelmine of Luxembourg^{[citation needed]} (14 February 1902 – 24 May 1941) was the sixth and youngest daughter^{[citation needed]} of Grand Duke William IV and his wife, Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal.^{[citation needed]}

Princess Sophie of Saxony

Born

14 February 1902
Berg Castle, Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg

Died

24 May 1941 (aged 39)
Munich, Bavaria, Nazi Germany

Burial

Katholische Hofkirche, Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Spouse

Prince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony

Issue

Prince Dedo
Prince Timo
Prince Gero

Names
French: Sophie Caroline Marie Wilhelmine

House

House of Nassau-Weilburg
House of Wettin

Father

William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

Mother

Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal

Religion

Roman Catholicism

Life Edit

Sophie was born in Berg Castle, Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg.^{[citation needed]} Two of Sophie's elder sisters reigned as grand duchesses of Luxembourg: Marie-Adélaïde and Charlotte.

Sophie married Prince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony,^{[citation needed]} youngest son^{[citation needed]} of the last Saxon monarch Frederick Augustus III and his wife Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany,^{[citation needed]} on 12 April 1921 at Schloss Hohenburg.^{[citation needed]} Sophie and Ernst Heinrich had three sons, three grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren:^{[citation needed]}

Prince Albrecht Friedrich August Johannes Gregor Dedo of Saxony (9 May 1922 in Munich;^{[citation needed]}-6 December 2009 in Radebeul, Germany).^[1]
Prince Georg Timo Michael Nikolaus Maria of Saxony (22 December 1923 in Munich-22 April 1982 in Emden)^{[citation needed]} married Margrit Lucas on 7 August 1952 at Mülheim. They have two children, five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. He remarried Charlotte Schwindack on 3 February 1966, from whom he was divorced on 6 February 1973. He remarried Erina Eilts on 26 March 1974. He has an illegitimate son and four grandchildren.
Prince Rupprecht Hubertus Gero Maria of Saxony (12 September 1925 in Munich-10 April 2003 in Picton, Ontario, Canada)^{[citation needed]}

Sophie died on 24 May 1941 at age 39 in Munich of pneumonia.^{[citation needed]} Following her death, Ernst Heinrich married secondly and morganatically to Virginia Dulon on 28 June 1947 in Paris.^{[citation needed]}