Queen Sofía of Spain

Sophia of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Glücksburg ( born November 2, 1938 in Athens, Greece), full name: Sophia Margarita Victoria Friederika of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Glücksburg Hanover, Duchess of Brunswick- Lüneburg, Princess of Greece and Denmark, spanish Sofía de Grecia, is the Queen of Spain.

She is the first child of the royal couple Paul I of Greece and Friederike of Hanover and is thus paternal great-niece and a maternal great-granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II Sophia itself comes from the House of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Glücksburg, a branch of the House of Oldenburg, and speaks fluent German.

Life

Today's Queen spent part of their youth in Alexandria, Egypt and South Africa because her family was forced to flee during the Second World War before the German occupation of Greece. She returned back to their homeland in 1946 and completed her four -year training from the German boarding school Salem. After that, she studied under music and archeology at the University of Athens. She participated in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome in part as a substitute wife of the sailing team.

HM King Juan Carlos HM Queen Sophia

  • SE Don Felipe
  • Doña Victoria Federica IE
  • SE Don Juan Valentín
  • SE Don Pablo Nicolás
  • SE Don Miguel
  • IE Doña Irene

HRH Infanta María del Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz HRH Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria

On 14 May 1962 she married at the Cathedral of St. Dionysius the Areopagite in Athens the Spanish throne Juan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon in an arranged marriage and gave birth in the following years, three children: Elena, Duchess of Lugo, on 20 December 1963 Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca, on 13 June 1965, Felipe, Crown Prince of Spain and Prince of Asturias, on 30 January 1968. has eight grandchildren. Her brother Constantine was from 1964 to 1974 King of Greece.

In addition to their official duties, they devoted to social affairs. It is among other things the President is named after her Fundación Reina Sofia. According to her, the Museo Reina Sofía, the National Museum of Modern Art in Madrid named.

She takes part in various projects for the development of women in rural areas and to support micro-enterprises through loans.

Queen Sofia is honorary doctor of several universities and honorary member of the Club of Rome.

Title

  • Her Royal Highness Princess Sofía of Greece and Denmark (1938-1962)
  • Her Royal Highness Princess Sofía of Spain (1962-1969)
  • Her Royal Highness the Princess of Spain (1969-1975)
  • Her Majesty the Queen of Spain (since 1975)

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In February 2014, King Juan Carlos announced that he has established for the first time fixed annual salaries for Sofia and Princess Letizia. Sofia 2014 receives a base salary of 63 234 euros gross per year and an additional 68 505 euros for representation expenses. Until then, Juan Carlos had set the grants depending on the number of public appearances from Sofia and Letizia and not made ​​public in detail. He founded the new rules so that the new system was more transparent. He wanted to set an example before the entry into force of a new transparency law for politicians.

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