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schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/duchess-sophie-charlotte-in-bavaria"
name: "Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria"
slug: "duchess-sophie-charlotte-in-bavaria"
description: "The youngest sister of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, she was once engaged to Ludwig II — Bavaria's Swan King — before he broke it off. That near-marriage, and her position between two of Europe's most mythologized figures, secured her place in royal lore."
tagline: "Bavarian duchess (1847-1897); victim of the Bazar de la Charité fire"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Albert%2C_Joseph_-_Prinzessin_Sophie%2C_Herzogin_in_Bayern_(Zeno_Fotografie).jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
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  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1847-02-22"
deathDate: "1897-05-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.120144534778681
  historical:           20.01390266666667
  currentAttention:     6.223025193214895
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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  - name: "19th Century"
    slug: "19th-century"
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    title: "София Шарлота Августа Баварска"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zofia Charlotta Wittelsbach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sofia Carlota da Baviera"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Sophie Charlotte Auguste was born into Bavaria's ducal house on 22 February 1847, the youngest sister in a family that would place one daughter on Austria's throne. She became engaged to her cousin, King Ludwig II of Bavaria, but he called it off — a rupture that left her on the edge of a story everyone remembers but she never lived. She later married into French royalty as a granddaughter-in-law of King Louis Philippe. She died on 4 May 1897, forty-nine years old, a figure defined by proximity: to an empress sister, to a king who wouldn't marry her, to the high theatrics of 19th-century European courts.