Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse скачать в хорошем качестве

Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse

Cecilie was the third child and daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg. She was born on 22 June 1911 at the summer estate of the Greek Royal Family at Tatoi, fifteen kilometres north of Athens. Although her given name was Cecilie, she was known to her family as Cécile. Princess Cecilie had three sisters: Margarita (wife of Prince Gottfried of Hohenlohe-Langenburg), Theodora (wife of Berthold, Margrave of Baden) and Sophie (wife firstly of Prince Christoph of Hesse and secondly of Prince Georg Wilhelm of Hanover). Her brother Philip, later Duke of Edinburgh, is the husband of Elizabeth II. On 2 February 1931 at Darmstadt Cecilie married Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine. They had four children: Prince Ludwig Ernst Andreas of Hesse (1931 - 1937) Prince Alexander Georg Karl Heinrich of Hesse (1933 - 1937) Princess Johanna Marina Eleonore of Hesse (1936 - 1939). Stillborn son (1937) On 1 May 1937 Cecilie and her husband both joined the Nazi Party. In October 1937, Cecilie's father-in-law Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse died. A few weeks after the funeral, her brother-in-law Prince Ludwig was due to be married to the Hon. Margaret Campbell-Geddes in London. On 16 November 1937, Georg Donatus, Cecilie, their two young sons and Georg's mother Grand Duchess Eleonore left Darmstadt for London. The aeroplane hit a factory chimney near Ostend and crashed in flames, killing all those on board. Cecilie was eight months pregnant with her fourth child at the time of the crash, and the remains of her baby were found in the wreckage, indicating that Cecilie had gone into labour or suffered sufficient bodily trauma to result in birth. Cecilie was buried with her husband, two sons and the stillborn child in Darmstadt at the Rosenhöhe, the traditional burial place of the Hesse family. Cecilie's daughter Johanna was adopted by Prince Ludwig and Princess Margaret; she died two years later from meningitis and is buried with her parents and siblings