Royal Profile: 27 Facts about Princess Sophie of Romania

1. Sophie de Roumanie was born on 29 October 1957 as Princess Sofia of Romania {Source}.
2. She was the daughter of Queen Anne-Marie of Romania & King Mihai of Romania {Source}.
3. She has four sisters, three older, one younger {Source}:
1. Crown Princess Margarita (1949)
2. Princess Elena (1950)
3. Mrs. Irina Walker (1953)
4. Princess Maria of Romania (1964)
4. She has several former and current brothers-in-law {Source}:
1. Prince Radu of Romania (1997)
2. Dr. Robin Medforth-Mills (1942-2002, 1983-1991, div)
3. Alexander Philips Nixon McAteer (m. 1998)
4. John Kreuger (m 1983, div 2003)
5. John Westley Walker (m 2003)
6. Kazimierz Wieslaw Mystkowsk (m 1995, div 2002)
5. She has the following nephews {Source}:
1. Mr. Nicholas de Roumanie Medforth-Mills (1985)
2. Michael Torsten de Roumanie Kreuger (1985)
6. She has the following nieces {Source}:
1. Angelica Margaretta Bianca de Roumanie Kreuger Knight (1986)
1. Miss Elisabeta Karina de Roumanie Medforth-Mills (1989)
7. She has the following niece and nephew-in-law {Source}:
1. Tara Littlefeld (m. 2011)
2. Richard Robert Knight (m 2009)
8. She has the following great nephew {Source}:
1. Kohen de Roumanie Kreuger (2012)
9. She has the following great nieces {Source}:
1. Courtney Bianca Knight (2007)
2. Diana Knight (2011)
10. She shares a birthday with Countess Josephine af Rosenborg and her twin sister, Camilla, who are 15 years her junior.
11. She shares a birthday with Prince Constantine-Alexios of Greece & Denmark, who is 41 years her junior.
12. She studied Fine Arts and photography at the University of North Carolina, Asheville {Source}. 
13. She also studied Graphic Design at the Cocoran College of Art & Design {Source}.
14. After graduation, she spent several years working and exhibiting her work on both sides of the Atlantic {Source}. 
15. Her life changed dramatically in 1989 with the fall of communism in Romania {Source}. 
16. She serves as vice president to The Princess Margarita of Romania Foundation {Source}.
17.  In addition to her charity work and work as a photographer, she is also a published author of a collection of children's stories that was published in Romania in 1995 {Source}.
18. She was breifly married to Alain Michel Léonce Biarneix
19. She resides in Brittany, France with her teenage daughter, Elisabeta-Maria de Roumanie Biarneix {Source}{Source}. 
20. While residing there, she pursues her craft full time, and often can be spotted photographing the Breton Country side and coast{Source}.
21. She won 1st place in an online photography contest called 'West of Paris" in May 2011. 
22. In the same year, she also won the Public's Favourite vote in her category during her first photographic exhibition. 
23. It was help in Brittany, at the Château in the Domaine de Tronjoly, in Gourin (Morbihan). 
24. Since this initial success, she has been showing her work regularly.
25. You can visit her facebook page here.
26. She speaks Romanian, English, and French at the very least.
On Saturday, 13 August 2016, she attended the funeral service of her mother, Queen Anne of Romania {Photos}.
27. She is distantly in succession for the British throne as a greatx3 granddaughter of Queen Victoria.