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Cecily didn’t survive her sister Elizabeth long—and, like Elizabeth, she never got to see her fourth decade. In 1507, when the princess was just 38, Cecily succumbed to illness and died. She got only a few precious years with Thomas Kyme, the man she had given up everything for.
Apr 26, 2021 · Cecilie and her siblings were in the care of a governess, who taught them English and Greek. They also did gymnastics in a long corridor of the palace. In 1917, the family was forced into exile for the first time.
Cecilie and her sisters were in the royal palace of Athens when it was bombarded by the French Navy during the battle in the capital on 1 December 1916. Exile in Switzerland. In June 1917, King Constantine I was finally deposed and driven out of Greece by the Allies, who replaced him on the throne by his second son, the young Alexander.
Baptized "Theodora" in honor of the Byzantine empress, but nicknamed "Dolla" by her family, the princess was raised within a united household, together with her elder sister Margarita, and younger sisters Cecilie, and Sophie.
The reconciliation of the princess and her children finally happened in 1937, and Margarita saw her mother for the first time in July. A few months later, in November, her sister Cecilie was killed in a plane crash and the family reunited for her funeral in Darmstadt.
Nov 16, 2022 · In November 1937, Cecile and her family embarked on a trip to the UK, where they were to attend the wedding of her brother-in-law Louis, Prince of Hesse to Margaret Campbell Geddes. However, the aircraft in which they were travelling crashed after hitting a factory chimney fog near Ostend.
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