Princess Sophie of Schoenburg-Waldenburg ( May 21, 1885 - February 3, 1936 ) is the wife of Albanian prince Wilhelm Weed . With the rise of her husband to the Albanian throne, she became the princess of Albania. Outside the country and in diplomatic correspondence, she was called the “Princess Consort”, but in Albania she was called Mbreteres or the Queen.
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Family and marriage
Princess Sofia was born in Potsdam , Brandenburg , in the family of the daughter of Crown Prince Victor Schönburg-Waldenburg (1856–1888) and his wife Princess Lucia Sein-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1859-1903), both were members of German meditated dynasties [3] .
Her maternal grandfather and grandmother were Prince Emil Sain-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1824-1878) and his first wife Pulcheria Cantacuzina (1820-1865), a Romanian princess. Emil was the son of Augustus Ludwig, Prince of Sain-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1788–1874) and Francis Allesina, Countess von Schweizer (1802–1878).
Princess Sophie's parents died when she was young, so she spent most of her youth on the Fantanele estate in Moldova , owned by her maternal relatives [4] .
On November 30, 1906, Princess Sophie married Prince Wilhelm Weed in Waldenburg , they had two children [5] .
- Maria Eleanor zu Weed (1909-1956); 1st husband (since 1937): Prince Alfred von Schoenburg-Waldenburg (1905-1941), 2nd husband (since 1949): Jon Octavian Bunia (1899-1977)
- Karol Victor von Weed , “Crown Prince of Albania” (1913-1973); since 1966, married to Eileen Johnston (1922-1985)
Princess of Albania
On February 21, 1914, William agreed to accept the Albanian throne.
On March 7 of that year, Wilhelm and Sofia arrived in the temporary capital Durres , but on September 3, fearing for their lives, Wilhelm and Sofia left the country and returned to Germany, where they continued to call themselves “Albanian princes”. Officially, they remained a prince and princess until January 31, 1925, when the country was declared a republic [6] [7] [8] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 The Peerage - 717826 copies.
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 117347582 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ The Ghica family was a Greek Orthodox Phanariote dynasty of Albanian origin
- ↑ Heaton-Armstrong, Duncan. The Six Month Kingdom: Albania 1914. - IBTauris, 2005 .-- P. xii, 14. - ISBN 1-85043-761-0 .
- ↑ Albania - Angelfire
- ↑ Pearson, Owen. Albania in the Twentieth Century: a history. - IBTauris, 2006. - P. 50, 377. - ISBN 1-84511-013-7 .
- ↑ Edinburgh, Marie of. The story of my life. - Ayer Publishing, 1971. - P. 541, 542. - ISBN 0-405-02761-3 .
- ↑ Hall, Richard C. The Balkan Wars, 1912–1913: Prelude to the First World War. - Routledge, 2000. - P. 131. - ISBN 0-415-22946-4 .