Sophia of Prussia

Born in 1870 to Frederick III, German Emperor, Sophia received a liberal education under her mother Victoria, Princess Royal, before marrying Crown Prince Constantine of Greece in 1889. After a difficult adjustment, she devoted herself to social work, founding field hospitals and treating wounded soldiers during Greece's turn-of-the-century wars - earning the Royal Red Cross from her grandmother Queen Victoria after the Thirty Days' War. But her brother Wilhelm II's alliance with the Ottoman Empire made Greeks distrust her, and during World War I the Triple Entente forced Constantine's abdication in 1917 over his neutrality, sending the family to Switzerland. They returned in 1920 after her second son Alexander's sudden death, but Greece's defeat in the Greco-Turkish War brought a second exile in 1922, this time to Italy, where Constantine died a year later. The republic's proclamation in 1924 kept her abroad until cancer took her in Germany in 1932.