page_title: Sophie, Countess of Wessex
section_title: Honorary military appointments
hierarchical_section_title: Sophie, Countess of Wessex / Titles, styles, honours and arms / Honours / Honorary military appointments
caption_attribution_description: Sophie, Countess of Wessex, shakes hands with Brig. Gen. Thomas Deale, 451st Air Expeditionary Wing commander, during her visit to the 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. She and her husband, Prince Edward, visited the 62nd ERS to learn more about the mission of the squadron and to visit with the Royal Air Force members embedded with the unit. Princess Sophie is wearing her honorary air commodore's uniform.
context_page_description: Sophie, Countess of Wessex, GCVO DStJ CD, is a member of the British royal family. She is married to Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Married in 1999, she worked in public relations until 2002 and now is a full-time working member of the royal family who splits her time between her work in support of the Queen and many of her own charities and organisations. The Earl and Countess have two children: Lady Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn, who are respectively thirteenth and twelfth in line to the British throne.
context_section_description: Canada
   2004: Colonel-in-Chief of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment
   2005: Colonel-in-Chief of the South Alberta Light Horse
   United Kingdom
   2003: Colonel-in-Chief of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
   2005: Colonel-in-Chief of the Corps of Army Music
   2006: Ship's Sponsor of HMS Daring
   2006: Royal Colonel of the 5th Battalion The Rifles
   2008: Honorary Air Commodore Royal Air Force Wittering
caption: Sophie dressed as Honorary Air Commodore on a visit to Kandahar, December 2011
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