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Princess Sophie of Luxembourg

Princess Sophie of Luxembourg
Princess Sophie of Saxony
Princess Sophia of Luxembourg.jpg
Born (1902-02-14)14 February 1902
Berg Castle, Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg
Died 24 May 1941(1941-05-24) (aged 39)
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Burial Katholische Hofkirche, Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Spouse Prince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony
Issue Prince Dedo
Prince Timo
Prince Gero
Full name
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
Full name
French: Sophie Caroline Marie Wilhelmine

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

Sophie was born in Berg Castle, Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg. Two of Sophie's elder sisters reigned as Grand Duchess of Luxembourg: Marie-Adélaïde and Charlotte.

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

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


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