Born Oxford as Sophie Rhys-Jones. Worked in PR. Married Prince Edward in 1999.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Countess of Wessex, Sophie
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Chiswick war memorial - Burlington Lane
{Main monument:} Chiswick memorial of the Great War 1914 1918 Homes of rest f...
LSE buildings renamed after suffrage campaigners
The renaming, reported by The Tab, was to celebrate 100 years since women gai...
Queen Elizabeth II jubilees
This memorial has provided terrific value. It was first erected for the Silve...
Other Subjects
Empress Matilda / Empress Maud
Maud / Maude / Matilda was the daughter of King Henry I. Married aged 12 to the future Holy Roman Emperor, Henry V, she moved to Germany and then Italy. When her husband died, 1125, her father move...
King Charles I
Born Fife. Until the age of 11 he was only the 'spare' but then his 18-year old brother Henry died (probably of typhoid) and Charles became the heir, ascending the throne in 1625 on the death of hi...
Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria
The fiftieth anniversary of the accession of Queen Victoria was celebrated on Monday 20 June 1887. In George Gissing's 1894 novel 'In the Year of Jubilee' characters discuss whether to participate...
King John II of France
French monarch, known as 'John the Good'. In 1356 at the Battle of Poitiers, he was captured by the Black Prince and imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he lived a pleasant regal lifestyle. A...
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