Princess Sophie of Luxembourg

Princess Sophie Caroline Marie Wilhelmine of Luxembourg was a Princess of Luxembourg by birth and Princess of Saxony by virtue of marriage.

Early life and ancestry

Sophie was born in Berg Castle, Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, as the sixth and youngest daughter of Grand Duke William IV and his wife, Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal, the daughter of the deposed King Miguel I of Portugal and Princess Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg. By birth, she was member of the House of Nassau-Weilburg, a branch of the House of Nassau.
Two of Sophie's elder sisters reigned as Grand duchesses of Luxembourg: Marie-Adélaïde and Charlotte.

Marriage and issue

Sophie married Prince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony, member of the House of Wettin, 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.
Together, Sophie and Ernst Heinrich had three sons:

Prince Albrecht Friedrich August Johannes Gregor Dedo of Saxony.
Prince Georg Timo Michael Nikolaus Maria of Saxony 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

Death

Princess Sophie died on 24 May 1941 at age 39 in Munich of pneumonia. She was interred in Neue Gruft in the Hofkirche, Dresden, Saxony, Germany.
Following her death, Prince Ernst Heinrich married secondly and morganatically to Virginia Dulon on 28 June 1947 in Paris.