The Countess of Wessex has paid tribute to Suffragette leaders at a special event in London. Sophie officially renamed three towers at the London School of Economics after some of the most high profile campaigners, one hundred years after women were first granted the right to vote in Britain.
The countess attended a ceremony at Clement’s Inn in the capital on Friday November 23rd to name the…
Sophie, Countess of Wessex joined Angelina Jolie on Friday at the Fighting Stigma through Film Festival at the British Film Institute. The Festival features thirty-five films based on the discrimination and social stigma caused by rape and other sexual assaults in war zones…
Sophie and Lady Louise put on their dancing shoes as they appear on Strictly Come Dancing
24th November 2018
The Countess of Wessex and her daughter, Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor, made a cameo appearance on Saturday evening’s Strictly Come Dancing as they watched the popular BBC show from the audience.
Sophie and Louise had front row seats in the ballroom as they saw…
It’s been a busy week for the Earl and Countess of Wessex which has seen them support some major medical initiatives, give their backing to the rural economy and meet Queen Victoria. It’s also been a week which has seen Edward and Sophie cover a large part of the UK on their visits with engagements that have taken them from the south coast of England to the heart of Wales and plenty of places…
The Countess of Wessex was anything but ‘not amused’ this week when she was welcomed to a royal engagement by a Queen Victoria impersonator. The brush with her husband’s great, great, great, great grandmother came as Sophie officially opened a newly…
The Countess of Wessex remembers police officers killed in World War One
7th November 2018
The Countess of Wessex has paid tribute to the hundreds of members of the Metropolitan Police who were killed in the First World War at a special commemoration in London. Sophie joined officers of all ranks at the memorial service held at St. Martin in the Fields at Trafalgar Square.
During the service, marking the centenary of the end of the conflict, the Countess read ‘In Flanders Field’…
The second and final day of The Netherlands State Visit began with a breakfast at Mansion House with the Earl and Countess of Wessex. Shortly before the breakfast, Their Majesties and the Earl and Countess of Wessex signed the guestbook. The breakfast was given by the Lord…
Prince Edward visits Sage Gateshead to see how music changes lives
21st October 2018
The Earl of Wessex has been well-known for promoting musicals, having in the past worked for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Company, but this week he was fulfilling an engagement at the Sage Gateshead to see the benefits music brings to all generations from old to young. and looking at organisations that worked under the umbrella of the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme to provide musical…
