‘When Issy met Sophie’, the Orbital in discussion with Sophie Christiansen CBE
On the 12th of December 2024, decorated Royal Holloway Alumni Sophie Christiansen CBE returned to the University for a visit. Reflecting on her time as a student at the University, she toured campus and met up with members of the current Royal Holloway Riding Club before our interview.
It was clear returning to the Royal Holloway Campus was a greatly nostalgic experience for Christiansen; when asked how it felt to return to her former university she explained, ‘It’s amazing! Every time I come back, I think, when we're here we take this gorgeous building for granted, but every time I come, I comment “wow, did I really come here?”’
When talking about what she was able to take away from her time at Royal Holloway in addition to her MSc Mathematics, she discussed...