Sophia preferred a private life, such as dinners and musical soirees in the company of family members and her ladies-in-waiting.
She set out establishing this select group of about eighty beautiful ladies-in-waiting whom she had dressed at all times like goddesses in silk and gold cloth.
Finally, she is drawn from her reminiscing when she apparently suffers a stroke and collapses, with her advisers, courtiers and ladies-in-waiting rushing to assist as she dies.
She and her ladies-in-waiting entertained themselves with art, embroidery, and music.
The first time, she finds out about his arrival and takes refuge into another wing of the house, where she surrounds herself with her ladies-in-waiting.
Her ladies-in-waiting had already fled for their lives.
His reasoning behind this is that they are the perfect ladies-in-waiting, not overly intelligent, and honest.
The sacred mirror was recovered in extremis when one of the ladies-in-waiting was about to jump with it into the sea.
