The person who we now know as Queen Sofía
of Spain was born on 2 November 1938 in Athens, Greece. She was
known differently at birth as she was titled Princess Sophia of
Greece and Denmark, and her parents were the then Prince Paul of
Greece and Princess Frederica, a daughter of Ernest August, a
claimant to the defunct crown of Hanover. She was christened a few
months later at the Royal Palace in…
