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Apr 13, 2021 · The Tragic Death Of Prince Philip's Sister, Princess Cecilie. Prince Philip was no stranger to tragedy. As a prince of Greece and Denmark, a military coup in 1922, reports BBC, forced his family to flee to Italy. In the following years, Vogue notes, his mother was institutionalized for a mental breakdown, later diagnosed as schizophrenia, and ...
Dec 14, 2017 · Philip was born in 1921, youngest child of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, and Princess Alice of Battenberg, the great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. In 1922, the monarchy was toppled in ...
Jul 22, 2014 · Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark (22 June 1911 – 16 November 1937) was the sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. She was born in Tatoi, Greece as the third child and daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg. She usually went by Cécile. She married her first cousin once-removed, George ...
Apr 18, 2021 · Philip had four sisters, princesses Margarita, Theodora, Cecilie, and Sophie, all of whom went on to marry German nobles after the family was exiled from Greece in 1922 following a coup that ...
Apr 9, 2021 · Alice, Princess of Greece, the wife of Prince Andrew of Greece and mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, circa 1910. Prince Philip's sisters Sophie, Margarita, Cecilie, and Theodora in 1922.
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.
Apr 28, 2021 · On 12 October, Cecilie was joined by both her mother and grandmother for the funeral. There was a strong Nazi presence at the funeral, and both Cecilie and her husband had joined the Nazi party on 1 May 1937 (with party numbers 3766313 and 3766312, respectively). Cecilie’s husband now succeeded as Head of the House, but more tragedy was to come.
