Royal Profile: Princess Sofia of Romania

Sophie de Roumanie was born on 29 October 1957 as Princess Sofia of Romania  as the daughter of Queen Anne-Marie of Romania & King Mihai of Romania {Source}. She has four sisters, several current and former brothers-in-law, {Source}:

1. Princess Margareta, Custodian of the Crown of Romania (1949)
1. Prince Radu of Romania (1997)
2. Princess Elena (1950)
1. Dr. Robin Medforth-Mills (1942-2002, 1983-1991, div)
1. Mr. Nicholas de Roumanie Medforth-Mills (1985)
1. Alina-Maria Binder de Roumanie Medforth-Mills (m. 2018)
2. Miss Elisabeta Karina de Roumanie Medforth-Mills (1989)
2. Alexander Philips Nixon McAteer (m. 1998)
3. Mrs. Irina Walker (1953)
1. John Kreuger (m 1983, div 2003)
1. Michael Torsten de Roumanie Kreuger (1985)
1. Tara Littlefeld (m. 2011)
1. Kohen de Roumanie Kreuger (2012)
2. Angelica Margaretta Bianca de Roumanie Kreuger Knight (1986)
1. Richard Robert Knight (m 2009)
1. Courtney Bianca Knight (2007)
2. Diana Knight (2011)
2. John Westley Walker (m 2003)
4. Princess Maria of Romania (1964)
1. Kazimierz Wieslaw Mystkowsk (m 1995, div 2002)

 

 

She shares a birthday with Countess Josephine af Rosenborg and her twin sister, Camilla, who are 15 years her junior. She shares a birthday with Prince Constantine-Alexios of Greece & Denmark, who is 41 years her junior.

 

She attended university in the United States, it is unknown where she attended to her primary education. Princess Sophie studied Fine Arts and photography at the University of North Carolina, Asheville {Source}. She also studied Graphic Design at the Cocoran College of Art & Design {Source}.After graduation, she spent several years working and exhibiting her work on both sides of the Atlantic {Source}.

 

Her life changed dramatically in 1989 with the fall of communism in Romania {Source}.  The third younger sister of Crown Princess Margareta serves as vice president to The Princess Margarita of Romania Foundation {Source}. 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}.

 

She was briefly married to Alain Michel Léonce Biarneix. She resided in Brittany, France with her teenage daughter, Elisabeta-Maria de Roumanie Biarneix {Source}{Source}.
 

While residing there, she pursues her craft full time, and often can be spotted photographing the Breton Country side and coast{Source}.

She won 1st place in an online photography contest called 'West of Paris" in May 2011.

In the same year, she also won the Public's Favourite vote in her category during her first photographic exhibition. It was help in Brittany, at the Château in the Domaine de Tronjoly, in Gourin (Morbihan). Since this initial success, she has been showing her work regularly.You can visit her facebook page here.
 

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}.
 

She is distantly in succession for the British throne as a greatx3 granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

As of early 2018, she has permanently resided in Romania {Source}.