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Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg

A woman with dark hair styled in an elegant updo wears a white lace dress adorned with pearls and a gold brooch featuring a red gemstone, set against a neutral background.

Born Sophie Chotek von Chotkowa, a Czech countess of insufficient rank to marry a Habsburg. Franz Ferdinand married her anyway in 1900, in a morganatic union that subjected her to fourteen years of small humiliations at court. In Sarajevo she rode openly beside him by special dispensation, since it was their anniversary. She was hit by Princip's first shot and died beside her husband in the back of the car.

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