Kate Middleton is known to have a close bond with the woman who was almost given the same title, Sophie Wessex ...

Before Kate became the Duchess of Cambridge when she married Prince William in 2011, one other unlikely royal was also in the running for the prestigious title.

Talking to guest Mindy Kaling in the second episode of her Netflix show With Love, Meghan, Prince ... of Wessex, though it took forever for her not to be known as Sophie Rhys-Jones.) ...

The mother-of-two hosted a black tie dinner, The Sun claimed, at her home of Bagshot Park, where she lives with her husband Prince Edward and their son James, Earl of Wessex ... Elsewhere, Sophie's ...

Sophie Rhys-Jones ... became the Earl and Countess of Wessex, celebrating their silver wedding anniversary last year. open image in gallery Smiling newlyweds Sophie and Edward, the new Earl ...

Their children, Lady Louise Windsor and James, Earl of Wessex ... the former Sophie Rhys-Jones was the first 'commoner' to marry a senior member of the Royal Family when she and Edward (then ...

By association, this appointment by the king led Sophie to become the Duchess of Edinburgh. Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones ... the Earl and Countess of Wessex. In November 2003, Sophie and Edward ...

"That's how Edward and Sophie are today ... and it's how they were 25 years ago on their relatively understated wedding day at Windsor," she added. Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones first ...

But, 25 years ago today, Edward - the late Queen's youngest son - married the then Sophie Rhys-Jones in ... the wedding rings were crafted from Welsh gold from the Prince Edward mine in Gwynedd.

In a relaxed photograph taken in the gardens of their home at Bagshot Park, Surrey, Prince Edward ... Earl of Wessex, 16. The couple met at a real tennis event in the early 1990s when Sophie Rhys ...