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How far along in her pregnancy was Sophie when she died?

2007-11-16 04:06:11 · 1 answers · asked by elizabeth 4 in Arts & Humanities History

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Hmm, apparently she wasn't pregnant:

"The rumour that at the time of her assassination in 1914, Sophie was pregnant with her fifth child, is not true. After the birth of her stillborn son in 1908, doctors advised her not to become pregnant again."

"I have to correct the earlier poster on one point. Sophie (the correct spelling) was not pregnant on 28 June 1914; in fact, since she was 46 at the time and had been strongly advised not to have any more children by her doctors after a stillbirth following the birth of three children, I think a pregnancy at that late date would have been highly unlikely. The other information, however, is correct, and I think the interpretation of the line "six times" as being about FF's last words is correct. FF is actually quite a misunderstood figure in some respects; it's not generally known, for example, that he was a strong proponent of a federal system for the Austro-Hungarian Empire and a more equal role for the Slavic peoples within the empire (Sophie herself, after all, was a Slav noblewoman from Bohemia, what is today the Czech Republic). The Black Hand was only the most sinister of a veritable witches' brew of secret societies and nationalist groups in the pre-WWI Balkans that wanted national rights/independence for one or another group. There's a weird historical coincidence to the fact that Bosnian Serbs caused so much trouble at the beginning and end of the previous century, isn't there?"

2007-11-16 04:12:49 · answer #1 · answered by johnslat 7 · 1 0

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