| • | The Countess of Wessex |
| • | "She lit a Marlboro Light", Evening Standard (UK), Jan. 7, '99 | |
| • | quit - "puffing away on her favourite Benson & Hedges cigarettes. Sophie smoked for many years although only socially and had given up by the time she met Prince Edward", "Sophie's Kiss: The True Love Story of Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones" by Gibbs and Smith Blake, when? |
| • | candid, lighting up, News of the World (UK), Jan. 30, '94 | |
| • | lighting up in the early 90's, "Sophie: A Royal Wedding Souvenir 1999" by Noam Friedlander, '99 |