Outside the country and in diplomatic correspondence, she was styled ``Princess consort'', but in Albania she was referred to as Mbret*resh*, or Queen. Princess Sophie was born in Potsdam, Brandenburg the daughter of Hereditary Prince Victor of Sch*nburg-Waldenburg (1856--1888) and his wife Princess Lucia of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1859--1903), both members of German mediatised dynasties. She had some remote Albanian ancestry, being a descendant of Ruxandra Ghica, daughter of Grigore I Ghica, Prince of Wallachia.
Sophie
Princess Lucia