Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Sofia, Duquesa de Edimburgo" in Portuguese language version.
Her father, Christopher, the son of a teacher, is a retired salesman for a tyre maker ... Mrs Rhys-Jones, a charity worker and secretary, has her own royal connection. As a young woman she once danced with Prince Philip at a society ball.
Sophie, 55, came from a middle class family and worked for a PR firm before she wed Prince Edward.
The Countess of Wessex will come face to face with her great great great grandfather the Rev John Edward Nassau Molesworth...her ancestor['s][his] son ...solicitor's firm...set up in 1840 by the Reverend's son [solicitor] John Molesworth...
Sophie also came from a middle-class family, her mother a secretary and her father a sales director for a tyre company.