# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/queen-sofia-of-spain
# Generated: 2026-09-01T13:04:48.994Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/queen-sofia-of-spain"
name: "Queen Sofía of Spain"
slug: "queen-sofia-of-spain"
description: "She was born into one royal family, married into another, and for sixteen months stood as heir to a Greek throne she would never take. Instead, she became the woman beside Spain's king through its leap from dictatorship to democracy."
tagline: "Queen consort of Spain from 1975 to 2014"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karaliene_Sofija_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1938-11-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           60.62
  momentum:             1.782440357569891
  historical:           26.979864
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
  - name: "Business Professionals"
    slug: "business-professionals"
  - name: "Other"
    slug: "other"
  - name: "Spain"
    slug: "spain"
  - name: "Europe"
    slug: "europe"
  - name: "20th Century"
    slug: "20th-century"
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0208676/"
    handle:    "nm0208676"
sources:
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "صوفيا ملكة اسپانيا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sofía de Grecia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سوفیا د قرسیا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yunan_v%C9%99_Danimarkal%C4%B1_Sofiya_(%C4%B0spaniya_krali%C3%A7as%C4%B1)"
    title: "Yunan və Danimarkalı Sofiya (İspaniya kraliçası)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%84%D1%96%D1%8F_%D0%93%D1%80%D1%8D%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_(%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%86%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%96)"
    title: "Сафія Грэчаская (каралева Іспаніі)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%93%D1%80%D1%8A%D1%86%D0%BA%D0%B0"
    title: "София Гръцка"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofija_od_Gr%C4%8Dke"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_de_Gr%C3%A8cia"
    title: "Sofia de Grècia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofie_%C5%98eck%C3%A1"
    title: "Sofie Řecká"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_af_Spanien"
    title: "Sofia af Spanien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sophia von Griechenland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Βασίλισσα Σοφία της Ισπανίας"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_de_Grekio"
    title: "Sofia de Grekio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sof%C3%ADa_de_Grecia"
    title: "Sofía de Grecia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sof%C3%ADa_(Hispaania_kuninganna)"
    title: "Sofía (Hispaania kuninganna)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sof%C3%ADa_Greziakoa"
    title: "Sofía Greziakoa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%81%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%AF_%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7"
    title: "سوفیا د گرسیا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_de_Gr%C3%A8ce_(1938)"
    title: "Sophie de Grèce (1938)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sofía de Grecia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%94%2C_%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%AA_%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%93"
    title: "סופיה, מלכת ספרד"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zs%C3%B3fia_spanyol_kir%C3%A1lyn%C3%A9"
    title: "Zsófia spanyol királyné"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sofia_de_Gr%C3%A8cia"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zofia_Grecka"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koningin_Sof%C3%ADa_van_Spanje"
    title: "Koningin Sofía van Spanje"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A7_(%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A9_%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7)"
    title: "صوفيا (ملكة إسبانيا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 2 November 1938, the eldest child of King Paul and Queen Frederica of Greece, she carried a lineage that reached back to Constantine I. In 1962 she married Infante Juan Carlos of Spain, converting faith and country in one stroke. When her father died in March 1964, she became heiress presumptive to Greece until her niece Alexia's birth in July 1965 moved her aside. Thirteen years later, Juan Carlos ascended the Spanish throne and she became queen in 1975, holding the role through Spain's transformation until his abdication on 19 June 2014 in favour of their son Felipe VI. Since then, she has carried the title queen emerita — the last living grandchild of Greece's King Constantine I, a woman who outlasted the thrones that shaped her.