June 1914: Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg dies alongside husband in Sarajevo

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Some 110 years ago, on 28 June 1914, Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo. His wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg was killed alongside him.

Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg was the daughter of Countess Wilhelmine Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau and her husband Count Bohuslav Chotek, who was from Bohemia.

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