| Biography | Sophie, Countess of Wessex, GCVO DStJ (Sophie Helen; née Rhys-Jones; born 20 January 1965, Oxford, England) is the wife of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Married in 1999, she worked in public relations until 2002 and now assists her husband in his royal duties. The Earl and Countess have two children, James, Viscount Severn, and Lady Louise Windsor, who are respectively ninth and tenth in the line of succession. |