What Ended Queen Sophia's Reign in Greece?

Queen Sophia of Greece (1870-1932), a Prussian princess, known for her charity and wartime service.

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⏱⏱TIMESTAMPS⏱⏱
0:00 - A Royal Birth
0:58 - The Influential Start
3:01 - Becoming a Queen
5:27 - Children of War
8:13 - Periods of Exile
11:50 - Sophia's Life of Legacy

[simon]

I knew very little about this beautiful lady's life, thank you Jon superb as always.

[helpinyerdasellavon]

Great history video. Beautiful work as always. Thank you, Jon 👍🏻💖

[bethhandzel]

Some of the photos of Queen Sophia remind me of her granddaughter Queen Sofia of Spain.

[edwardbertorelli]

Thoroughly interesting and detailed narrative..as always. Thanks

[maryannbernal]

I love learning new stuff. Keep them coming.

[RemySimon-phij]

Thank you for this video.I thoroughly
enjoyed the superb narration and
presentation.🙏

[theresalaux]

I didn't know much about her but she was interesting 😊 Thanks Jon❤😊

[Canerican.]

You can really tell that she’s related to the British Royal Family by her eyes!

[deniaridley]

Queen Sofia of Spain looks just like her grandmother.

[MichelleBruce-looc]

Hi Jon, awesome live history video I enjoyed it. How are you doing? I'm doing well and so is my cat Benjamin. Have a great day see you next video 😊

[dobermanism]

The late Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, was related to this dynasty.

[vcaus]

Thank you for your excellent video. I only wish that at 2:10 you'd shown us a pre-WWI map of Europe. People would then learn where Prussia was.

[RobertoGonzalez-bqp]

Several incidents in Queen Sophie’s life glossed over: illness and death of her father Kaiser Frederick III; her volatile relationship with her brother Kaiser Wilhelm II; her pro-British stance during World War I; the role of her mother-in-law Queen Olga (née of Russia) at the death of King Alexander I of Greece; the extramarital life of both King Constantine and Queen Sophia, whose youngest child Princess Katherine (not once shown) wasn’t his; the Romanian royals.

The video is 16:05, not so long as warranting glossing over the above incidents.

[eyeseeeee]

the pic of Queen Sophia's waistline @05:10 was snatched

[LiamDeeley]

I'm going to look in death by a monkey bite. Once again, I've learned about a woman and time I know little about. Thank you for the video.

[keithhawthorne]

Victoria created 10 new kingdoms so that her children either sat on or were married to a throne. The Kingdom of Greece hasn't existed since 500BC. On the conversion of the Roman Empire by Constantine the Great, Constantinople, or "Nova Roma", became the new capitol, not only of all Christendom but of the new Christian, "Basileion Romaion", or Kingdom of Rome, until the fall of the city to the Ottoman Turks. The term "Byzantine" is incorrect. Byzant on the Bosporus disappeared 1000 years before Christ. Since then the Greeks were loosely scattered in the diaspora, until modern times, and the new state of Greece. Attempting a Kingdom rulled by Germans and Prussians was a huge mistake, doomed from the very beginning.

[moussapolytropos]

The « Greek » king was not Greek either. His family was Bavarian.