Princess Sophie of Luxembourg

{{Infobox royalty

| name = Princess Sophie of Luxembourg

| full name = {{langx|fr|Sophie Caroline Marie Wilhelmine}}

| image = Princess Sophie of Luxembourg (1907 - 1942).JPG

| image_size = 200px

| caption =

| spouse = {{marriage|Prince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony|1921}}

| issue = {{ubl|Prince Dedo|Prince Timo|Prince Gero}}

| house = House of Nassau-Weilburg
House of Wettin

| father = William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

| mother = Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1902|02|14|df=y}}

| birth_place = Berg Castle, Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1941|05|24|1902|02|14|df=y}}

| death_place = Munich, Bavaria, Nazi Germany

| burial_place = Katholische Hofkirche, Dresden, Saxony, Germany

}}

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 Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal.

Life

Sophie was born in Berg Castle, Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg.{{cn|date=August 2020}} Two of Sophie's elder sisters reigned as grand duchesses of Luxembourg: Marie-Adélaïde and Charlotte.

Sophie married Prince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony,{{cn|date=August 2020}} youngest son{{cn|date=August 2020}} of the last Saxon monarch Frederick Augustus III and his wife Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany,{{cn|date=August 2020}} on 12 April 1921 at Schloss Hohenburg.{{cn|date=August 2020}} Sophie and Ernst Heinrich had three sons:{{cn|date=August 2020}}

Prince Albrecht Friedrich August Johannes Gregor Dedo of Saxony (9 May 1922 in Munich;{{cn|date=August 2020}} - 6 December 2009 in Radebeul, Germany).See wikipedia article on Ernst Heinrich of Saxony.
Prince Georg Timo Michael Nikolaus Maria of Saxony (22 December 1923 in Munich - 22 April 1982 in Emden){{cn|date=August 2020}} married Margrit Lucas on 7 August 1952 at Mülheim. They have two children. 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.
Prince Rupprecht Hubertus Gero Maria of Saxony (12 September 1925 in Munich - 10 April 2003 in Picton, Ontario, Canada){{cn|date=August 2020}}

Sophie died on 24 May 1941 at age 39 in Munich of pneumonia.{{cn|date=August 2020}} Following her death, Ernst Heinrich married secondly and morganatically to Virginia Dulon on 28 June 1947 in Paris.{{cn|date=August 2020}}