Their engagement was announced on 6 January 1999. She met Prince Edward again at a charity event in 1993, and the two began their relationship soon afterwards. While working at Capital Radio, Rhys-Jones met Prince Edward, the youngest son of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, for the first time in 1987 when he was dating her friend. The Earl and Countess of Wessex at Trooping the Colour in June 2013 In 1996, Rhys-Jones launched her public relations agency, RJH Public Relations, which she ran with her business partner, Murray Harkin, for five years. She also worked as a ski representative in Switzerland and spent a year travelling and working in Australia. She began a career in public relations, working for a variety of firms, including four years at Capital Radio, where she was assigned to the press and promotions department, as well as public relations companies The Quentin Bell Organisation and MacLaurin Communications & Media. Rhys-Jones then trained as a secretary at West Kent College, Tonbridge. She began her education at Dulwich Preparatory School, before moving on to Kent College, Pembury, where she was friends with Sarah Sienesi, with whom she subsequently shared a flat in Fulham and who later became her lady-in-waiting. Rhys-Jones was raised in a four-bedroom 17th-century farmhouse in Brenchley, Kent. John Molesworth, himself the father of Sir Guilford Molesworth and the great-grandson of Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth. She descends from King Henry IV of England and is related to the family of the Viscounts Molesworth her grandmother, Margaret Rhys-Jones, née Molesworth, was the great-granddaughter of the Rev. Her godfather, actor Thane Bettany, was her father's stepbrother both men spent their early life in Sarawak, North Borneo, then a British Protectorate ruled by the White Rajahs. She has an elder brother, David (born 1963), and was named after her father's sister, Helen, who died in a riding accident in 1960. Her mother was Mary ( née O'Sullivan 1934–2005), a charity worker and secretary. Her father, Christopher Bournes Rhys-Jones (born 1931), is a retired sales director for an importer of industrial tyres and rubber goods. Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones was born at Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, on 20 January 1965 into a middle-class family. Her charity work primarily revolves around people with disabilities, women's rights, avoidable blindness and agriculture. She undertakes over 200 engagements each year, including visits to schools, universities, and military bases. She is the patron of over 70 charities and organisations, including Childline and the London College of Fashion. In 2002, Sophie closed her business interests and began full-time work as a member of the royal family. The couple have two children: Lady Louise and James, Viscount Severn, who are respectively fourteenth and thirteenth in line to the British throne. Their engagement was announced in January 1999, and they were married on 19 June at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. She met Edward in 1987 while working for Capital Radio, and they began dating in 1993. She subsequently began working in public relations, representing firms across the UK, Switzerland and Australia before opening her own agency in 1996. She grew up in Brenchley, Kent, and later attended West Kent College, training as a secretary. She is married to Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Sophie, Countess of Wessex, GCVO DStJ CD (born Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones 20 January 1965) is a member of the British royal family.
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