Greek kings

Queen Sofia of Spain

Queen Sofía of Spain:
Queen Sofía of Spain born 2 November 1938 is the current queen consort and wife of King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
Early life:

Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark was born in Psychiko, Athens, Greece on 2 November 1938, the eldest child of the King Paul of Greece (1901–1964) and his wife, Queen Frederika (1917–1981), a former princess of Hanover. Queen Sofia is a member of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg dynasty. Her brother is the deposed King Constantine II of Greece and her sister Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark. However, since the abolition of the Greek monarchy, the royal titles are recognized by the Dutch Monarchy and the Danish Royal Family.
Princess Sophia spent some of her childhood in Egypt where she took her early education in El Nasr Girls' College (EGC) in Alexandria, then went to South Africa during her family's exile from Greece during World War II. They returned to Greece in 1946. She finished her education at the prestigious Schloss Salem boarding school in Southern Germany, and then studied childcare, music and archeology in Athens. Sofia also studied at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. She represented Greece, alongside her brother then-Crown Prince Constantine, as a reserve member of the Gold Medal-winning sailing team in the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Marriage and family:

On 14 May 1962, Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark married Infante Juan Carlos of Spain, whom she met on a cruise in the Greek Islands in 1954, in Athens at the Catholic Cathedral of Saint Dennis. She converted from Greek Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism to become more palatable to Catholic Spain, and thus relinquished her rights to the Greek Throne. Along with this, the usual Latin spelling of her Greek name (Σοφία) was changed from Sophia to the Spanish variant Sofía.
In 1969, Prince Juan Carlos, who was never Prince of Asturias (the traditional title of the heir presumptive), was given the official title of "Prince of Spain" by the Spanish state; the title suggested by Sofía herself. Juan Carlos acceded to the throne as Juan Carlos I of Spain in 1975.
The couple have three children: HRH Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo (born 20 December 1963); HRH Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca (born 13 June 1965); and HRH Felipe, Prince of Asturias (born 30 January 1968). The King and Queen have eight grandchildren, four boys and four girls: Felipe and Victoria from the Infanta Elena; Juan, Pablo, Miguel and Irene from the Infanta Cristina; and Infanta Leonor, and Infanta Sofía, named in her honor, of Prince Felipe; all of whom are in the line of succession to the Spanish Throne.