Sophie's Biography
What do you want to know about the Countess of Wessex?
This page contains all sorts of basic facts and tidbits of information that I have
found out about her. Anything else, I have no idea, sorry.
- FULL NAME: Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones
- BIRTHDATE: January 20, 1965
- Was born at the Nuffield Maternity Home in Oxford
- PARENTS NAMES: Christopher and Mary
- BROTHER: David [he's two years older and is married to a woman named Zara (not another
one!)]
- Was named Helen after her father's sister, who was tragically killed in a riding accident more
than ten years before she was born
- Her family lived in the village of Ickford in Buckinghamshire, but shortly after she was born
they moved to Brenchley
- Her father was an overseas representative for a car manufacturer
- Their home is "Homestead Farmhouse", a four-bedroom 17th Century thatched farmhouse on
the edge of Brenchley. This is where Sophie grew up. It is still their home
- Sophie and her brother both attended Dulwich College Preparatory School in Cranbrook,
about nine miles from Brenchley
- Sophie started going to the school when she was only four years and nine months old
- After Dulwich, Sophie went to Kent College For Girls at Pembury
- Took 8 'O' Levels and 2 'A' Levels at school (not sure of the North American equivalent) and
then travelled.
- Sophie left school at age 16 and enrolled in a 2 year secretarial course at the West Kent
College of Further Education in Tonbridge
- Her first job was as a waitress at a pub called The Halfway House just outside Brenchley
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