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Some years after Christoph's death, his widow married Prince George William of Hanover, a brother of Queen Fredrica of Greece and a grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II. She would have a further three children. Four years after Christoph's death, his widow's brother, Philip, would marry the future queen Elizabeth II.
Dec 15, 2020 · She married Prince Christoph of Hesse in 1930, another great-grandson of Queen Victoria. Unfornately this man was in the German SS by this point. They married in Kronberg im Taunus in Germany.
Apr 18, 2021 · His youngest sister, Princess Sophie, married Prince Christoph of Hesse, a German SS officer, in 1930. One of their sons — the Duke of Edinburgh’s nephew — Prince Karl Adolf Andreas of Hesse,...
Five years later, in 1930, Christoph married Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark (whose younger brother was Philip, the future Duke of Edinburgh and husband to Queen Elizabeth II of England). Sophie was a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria through her mother.
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Apr 12, 2021 · Despite being the youngest of the sisters, she was the first to get hitched, marrying Prince Christoph of Hesse in 1930. The couple went on to have five children, but Christoph sadly died in a plane crash in 1943.
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By early 1946, Princess Sophia von Hessen, widow of Prince Christoph, was preparing to remarry. Her mother-in-law, Princess Margarethe von Hessen, had already attempted to retrieve from US Army personnel the box of jewels hidden in the cellar of the family home.
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Apr 15, 2021 · He went to the funeral, held in Nazi controlled Darmstadt, and walked next to his sister Sophie’s husband, Christoph of Hesse, a future Luftwaffe officer dressed in an SS uniform.
