#Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark

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Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark with his daughters Theodora and Cecilie 1910s.

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Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse  and by Rhine. She was elder sister of Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1934.

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“I consider Princess Cecilia of Greece and Denmark the most beautiful aunt of King Charles III of the United Kingdom.” - Submitted by cenacevedo15

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Candid photo of Princess Cecilie of Hesse (neé Greece and Denmark) with her two sons Princes Ludwig and Alexander of Hesse, 1937

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Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, portrait by Philip de László, 1914 ..

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Princess Cecilie of G&D (Greece and Denmark) 🇬🇷🇩🇰 on her wedding day as she marries Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse, 🇩🇪 on 15th December 1930.

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Hesse Strawberry Leaf Tiara, Garrard, circa 1861

Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse (1871)

Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Duchess of Hesse (1898) /

Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich, Grand Duchess of Hesse (c.1910)

Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse (1937)

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Princess Alice of Battenberg (Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie; 1885 – 1969) - Princess of Greece and Denmark

One of her Great-Grandmothers was Queen Victoria; her maternal grandmother was Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine; her mother was Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, sister of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia; her father was Prince Louis of Battenberg. Her son was Prince Phillip, consort of Queen Elizabeth II.

She married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark

She had five children: Margarita, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

Theodora, Margravine of Baden

Cecilie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse

Sophie, Princess George of Hanover

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Alice suffered incredibly through her life, but she did not let that stop her from always thinking of others; she was born with a hearing deficit and her brilliant mother Victoria, taught her to lip read not in one but several languages. She had a husband who preferred to gamble in Montecarlo to being with his wife and children or...anything else. She was diagnosed with squizophrenia (there is no evidence that this was a correct diagnosis even though it was issue by Dr. Freud himself) and her pelvic organs irradiated to produce an early menopause (this was supposed to relieve the symptoms according to the medical thinking of the times). She lost her daughter Cecilie in a plane crash.

Yet, like her grandmother Alice, helping others came to her naturally. Israel gave her the award Righteous Among the Nations, bestowed on people who risked their own lives to help Jewish people survive the Holocaust. She worked for the Swiss Red Cross.

The princess founded a nursing order of Greek Orthodox nuns, the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary, modelled after the convent that her aunt, the martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, had founded in Russia in 1909. She dedicated herself to helping others but eventually the order failed because of lack of funds.

And besides all of that, she was beautiful.

She died at Buckingham Palace at the age of 84.

(I have to add something here: Alice's smile in the picture is one of the most open, sweetest, tenderest, and most beautiful smiles I have ever seen. It filled me with awe, and thinking about her life brought tears to my eyes)

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Here’s some AI-Generated Art of historical royals I created via an photo filter app. These were the ones I liked the best:

1. Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia.

2. Princess Helen of Greece and Denmark (née Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia) with her daughters Princesses Olga, Elisabeth and Marina of Greece and Denmark.

3. Crown Princess Cecilie of Prussia.

4. Queen Helen of Romania (née Princess Helen of Greece and Denmark) and

5. Queen Olga of Greece (née Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna of Russia).

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✵ February 2, 1931 ✵

Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark & Prince Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine

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Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse, Cecilie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Prince Ludwig of Hesse Early 1930s.

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Philip wanted to sue The Crown after being blamed for sister’s death

Duke consulted royals’ favorite law firm after plotline left him ‘hurt and upset’

The Duke of Edinburgh spoke to his lawyers about suing Netflix over a false portrayal of him in The Crown that left him deeply “upset”.

Prince Philip consulted Farrer & Co, the blue-blooded law firm that has advised the royal family since the 1930s, after the series featured a plotline about the death of his older sister, Princess Cecilie.

Hugo Vickers, a royal historian and author, said: “I know Prince Philip consulted his lawyer about it, to ask ‘What can I do about it?’ He was very upset about the way that was portrayed. He was human. He could be hurt like anybody else.”

The plot features in the penultimate episode of the second series, which was first broadcast in 2017, without a fictional disclaimer. It includes imagined scenes in which Philip, then aged 16, is involved in a misdemeanour at his boarding school, Gordonstoun, resulting in him not being allowed to spend his half-term break in Germany with Cecilie, who is heavily pregnant with her fourth child. In the Netflix drama, she is depicted telling Philip she will consequently be forced to fly to London to attend a wedding with her family.

Cecilie, 26, the third of Philip’s four older sisters, was killed in a plane crash in November 1937 with her husband and their two young sons when their plane hit a factory chimney in fog near Ostend. She had given birth during the flight and her baby’s body was found alongside her in the wreckage.

In the Netflix dramatisation of Cecilie’s funeral, their father, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, says to onlookers and a tearful Philip: “I’m surprised he dare show himself here. Had it not been for Philip and his indiscipline she would never have taken that flight. It’s true, isn’t it boy? You’re the reason we’re all here burying my favourite child. Get him out of here.”

However, her decision to travel to London had nothing to do with Philip, who was particularly close to Cecilie. Her death deeply affected him and in later life he recalled being summoned to his headmaster’s study and informed of her death: “I have the very clearest recollection of the profound shock with which I heard the news of the crash and the death of my sister and her family.”

While staying with the Queen and Philip, a close friend of the royal family said Philip had expressed anger at his portrayal. “I remember sitting next to the Duke of Edinburgh at a dinner, and him being so upset about it and what it [The Crown] was saying about him.”

Vickers, the author of The Crown Dissected, which sets out errors in the series, said: “[Philip] was not displeased when I put the record straight.” Philip chose not to pursue legal action and the long-held royal mantra of “never complain, never explain” prevailed.

It can also be revealed that the Prince of Wales believes The Crown is “damaging” to the royal family. A close friend of Prince William, who is played by the child actors Timothee Sambor and Senan West in the new series, said he found the fallout from the series increasingly difficult as the events portrayed come closer to the present day.

The friend said: “He has spoken about it, and now, as it is coming closer to the present, he is particularly concerned about it. William does think it is damaging. The royal family know a lot of it is nonsense, but it is really harsh and hurtful.”

The revelations give new insight into how personally wounding The Crown has proved for some members of the royal family, and how opposed their views are to those of the Duke of Sussex, who is working with Netflix on two projects as part of a his multimillion-pound deal.

In an interview with James Corden last year, Harry said the series was not “strictly accurate” but said it was “loosely based on the truth” and gave a “rough idea” of the pressures of royal life. He added that he is “way more comfortable with The Crown than I am seeing stories written about my family or my wife”.

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Princesses Sophie, Cecilie, Margarita and Theodora of Greece & Denmark.

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Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark with his wife Princess Alice of Battenberg and their three daughters Princess Theodora (far left), Princess Margarita (far right), and Princess Cecilie (baby), 1911

Source: Hessian State Archives

Bonus: really badly enhanced version

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1914 Princesses Theodora, Sophie, Margarita and Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, sisters of the recently deceased Duke of Edinburgh. 

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"Tiara" by Koch owned by Princess Cecilie of Prussia (1905), "The Prussian Tiara" by Koch for the wedding of Princess Viktoria Luise, Duchess of Brunswick (1913), worn by Queen Letizia of Spain on her wedding, via the Royal family of Greece, and “The Baden-Palmette Tiara" by Koch (circa 1881) for Princess Luise of Prussia, wife of Grand Duke Friedrich of Baden, owned by Queen Margarethe II of Denmark, presented in “A History of Jewellery: Bedazzled (part 10: Focus on Rings in the Alice and Louis Koch Collection)” by Beatriz Chadour-Sampson - International Jewellery Historian and Author - for the V&A Academy online, april 2024.