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Countess of Wessex posts personal message on Royal Family Twitter at start of India tour

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30th April 2019
The Countess of Wessex started her five-day tour of India today in Hyderabad, visiting hospitals to see how they are working to prevent avoidable blindness in premature babies. The Countess, who is travelling in her role as Vice-Patron of The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust, took to Twitter to share her thoughts on the experience. “I was so thrilled to see the work supported by…
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Before they were royal: The life of the Countess of Wessex

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10th July 2018
Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones was born on 20 January 1965 as the youngest child and only daughter of Christopher Bournes Rhys-Jones and the late Mary O’Sullivan at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. She has an elder brother, David. One of her godparents was the late actor Thane Bettany, who was her father’s stepbrother. Sophie grew up in Kent, to where her family moved while she was still…
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