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The Countess of Wessex puts spotlight on Children's Hospice work

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14th February 2020
On Wednesday, the Countess of Wessex visited children and carers at Shooting Star Children’s Hospices in Hampton. The Countess received a tour of the recently refurbished and new facilities. Shooting Star is the leading children’s hospice charity. Throughout Surrey and London, over 700 children and their families are supported. The Countess is the patron and officially opened…
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Sophie in Sierra Leone: Day Two

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24th January 2020
The Countess of Wessex wrapped up a two-day official visit to Sierra Leone on Thursday, visiting a school in Freetown to see how girls and women are empowered through education in the West African country. Sophie’s trip, as recounted on the Royal Family website, notes…
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Sophie in Sierra Leone: Day One

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23rd January 2020
The Countess of Wessex is in Sierra Leone this week, focusing on “addressing sexual and gender-based violence, supporting survivors, and championing women’s roles in peacebuilding.” The visit, which came at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, sees…
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Celebrating Sophie, the House of Windsor's quiet star

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20th January 2020
The first month of every New Year brings many inevitabilities with it – cold nights, lower than hoped for bank balances and guilt trips when dry January turns out, like the weather, to be slightly wetter than anticipated. But in recent years it’s also brought a brighter sight as the month passes its midway point. For January 20th is the birthday of the Countess of Wessex and…
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Lady Louise joins her mum, The Countess of Wessex, on engagement

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8th January 2020
The Countess of Wessex and her daughter, Lady Louise Windsor, visited the National Sports Centre training grounds at Bisham Abbey in Buckinghamshire to meet members of England Hockey. [getty src=”1198124088″ width=”372″ height=”594″ tld=”ca”] Sophie has been the patron of England Hockey since 2006 and has visited the various teams – and…
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Who is James, Viscount Severn?

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17th December 2019
James, Viscount Severn was born on 17 December 2007, at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey, to Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Sophie, Countess of Wessex. He has one older sister, Lady Louise (b. 2003). James Alexander Philip Theo Mountbatten-Windsor was born by a…
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A special joint engagement for The Queen and Countess of Wessex

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30th October 2019
The Queen and the Countess of Wessex celebrated the lifechanging work of The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust ahead of its planned closure during a reception at Buckingham Palace Tuesday evening. The charitable foundation, which was created by the Commonwealth Heads of Government in 2012 to mark The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, had a five-year mission to help prevent avoidable blindness…
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