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Nov 16, 2022 · Cecile and Georg's surviving daughter, Johanna, was adopted by Prince Ludwig and Princess Margaret but died two years later from meningitis.
Jan 19, 2023 · Adopted by other royals, Cecilie's young daughter died two years later of meningitis. Cecilie's story includes another dark chapter: Both she and her husband were members of the Nazi...
Apr 13, 2021 · His sister, Princess Cecilie, was the third of Prince Philip's siblings, born in 1911 on the Greek royal family's estate in Tatoi, Greece. She married Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse in 1931, and they had three children (via Salon Privé Magazine).
- Who Were Prince Philip’s Sisters?
- Princess Margarita
- Princess Theodora
- Princess Cecilie
- Princess Sophie
- Was Prince Philip Close with His Sisters?
Prince Philip was the youngest of his siblings, and the only boy. Philip had four older sisters, Princess Margarita, Princess Theodora, Princess Cecilie, and Princess Sophie. Philip was the last surviving of his siblings, with Princess Sophie being the last to pass away back in 2001.
Philip’s eldest sister was Princess Margarita, who was born on April 18, 1905. 16 years Philip’s senior, Margarita married Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg of Germany and they had six children, the first of which was sadly stillborn. Margarita passed away on April 24, 1981, at the age of 76.
The second daughter was Theodora, born May 30, 1906. Theodora married Berthold, Margrave of Baden, her paternal second cousin, in 1931 and they shared three children. Theodora died just five weeks before her mother, Princess Alice, on October 16, 1969, aged 63 years old.
The third daughter, Cecilie, had a tragic story. Born on June 22, 1911, Cecilie would die just 26 years later, in a plane crash – and a Belgian enquiry found the cause of the plane crash to be an emergency landing made by the pilot as Cecilie was giving birth on the plane. Her husband, Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse, and two of Cecil...
Philip’s closest sibling in age was Sophie, who was born on June 26, 1914. Sophie’s first marriage was to Prince Christoph of Hesse when she was just 16, and they had five children together before Christoph was tragically killed in an airplane accident in a war zone near Forlì, Italy. Sophie’s second marriage was controversial – and at one point, w...
Prince Philip had a dramatic childhood – fleeing Greece in an orange crateand his family living in exile for a time – and this meant being separated from his family for large periods of time. The family fled to France, but were soon separated, with Philip being sent to the MacJannet American School before moving to the U.K. to continue his studies....
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Apr 13, 2021 · Sadly, nobody made it out of the wreck alive. When responders came to the scene they found a newly born baby that had perished, leading them to believe this was the reason for the emergency landing. Cecilie was just 26 years old at the time of her death.
Apr 13, 2021 · Just two years later, Cecilie and Georg's surviving child, Johanna, died at age 2 of meningitis, BBC reports. Though Prince Philip lived a long, fruitful life, his sister Cecilie wasn't so...
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Nov 10, 2022 · Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark was the sister of Prince Philip, and she died in an airplane crash in 1937, aged 26. Cecilie was married to a German noble, and went into labor whilst...
