Prince Georg Friedrich, head of the house of Prussia, and Princess Sophie have been dating for several years. It is suffice to say that their courtship has been discrete, as the Prince has usually attended weddings and funerals without the Princess.
Princess Sophie was born March 7, 1978 at Frankfurt. She studied business administration and now works in a consulting firm in Berlin. Prince Georg studied businesss administration at Freiburg University. He currently works in Rostock for a company that markets the patents in the field of higher education.
According to the official announcement, the wedding will take place later this year, probably in Potsdam.
The couple have known each other since they were children.
Prince Georg Friedrich was born June 10, 1976 at Bremen. He is the first of two children of the late Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia and Countess Donata zu Castell-Rüdenhausen (now Duchess Friedrich August of Oldenburg). Georg Friedrich's father died following from injuries suffered in a military accident in 1977. Prince Georg Friedrich succeeded his grandfather, Prince Louis Ferdinand, as head of the house, in 1992.
http://www.preussen.de/de/heute/aktuell/verlobung_im_haus_hohenzollern.html
Sophie's two sisters, Katharina and Isabelle, are married to Archduke Martin of Austria and Carl, the Prince of Wied, respectively.
Georg Friedrich is a double descendant of Queen Victoria. He descends from two of her children: Victoria, Princess Royal, and Prince Alfred, Edinburgh, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He is a possible dynast to the throne, according to the Act of Settlement, but he will cease to have the right to succeed to the throne when he marries. Princess Sophie is a Roman Catholic. He is exempt from the Royal Marriages Act as he descends from princesses who married in foreign houses.
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